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Explore 18 Volunteering travel stories from Adventure Life, featuring expert insights, destination highlights, and firsthand experiences from ancient and culturally rich sites. Whether you’re planning your next adventure in 2025 or 2026, these stories offer inspiration for exploring ruins, archaeological wonders, and hidden historical gems across the globe. Learn from the journeys of fellow travelers and discover meaningful ways to connect with the past through thoughtful travel. Let these Volunteering stories guide your path into history.
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Adlifers Meg and Molly with full bags of collected trash in Caras Park after the cleanup

Clark Fork River Cleanup

Every year, the Clark Fork Coalition, a local non-profit dedicated to protecting the Clark Fork watershed, hosts a community cleanup event. The event, usually on a Saturday in mid-spring, aims to attract volunteers from all corners of the Missoula community to come together to do their part in preserving the health of our local river ecosystem. …
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The Conway Family Does Baja!
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Reforestation project in Peru

Reforestation Project in Peru

The Adventure Life grant program sponsored a reforestation project for the Cachiccata and Socma communities. Two thousand trees were planted during the project. The group used a tree call the Tara, which is native to this area in Peru. The tree fruit is another benefit to the community which will be enjoyed for generations to come. It also …
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Yucatan Explorer

The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is a fascinating blend of pristine beaches, turquoise blue water, spectacular nature, ruins of ancient civilizations, and residents who have not forgotten their traditions and culture. This Yucatan trip visits the Maya sites of Chichen Itza, Tulum, Coba, and Uxmal and the colonial cities of Campeche and Merida.
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Gray whale

Gray Whales and Sea Turtles Conservation Adventure

5 day expedition in scenic Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula. You get the chance to take part in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for community based conservation. Also you participate in 3 whale watching excursion.
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black sea turtle monitoring in Baja

Magdalena Bay Sea Turtle Conservation Adventure

A trip that blurs the lines between ecotourism and black sea turtle restoration, community development and genuine cultural exchange. Join a local group of fisher-conservationists on a journey through majestic Magdalena Bay in the Baja Peninsula to participate in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for …
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Sea kayak in Magdalena Bay

Sea Kayaking and Sea Turtle Adventure

Paddle through dense mangrove canals lush with wildlife and take part in a sea turtle conservation project recognized around the world as a model for community based conservation.
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Beginning stages of planting trees in Peru

Peru Tour Extension: Native Tree Planting

Our Native Tree Planting project is located in Cachiccata, a small Andean community located just 5 minutes by car from ollantaytambo in Cusco, Peru. Here you can help us reforestate this depredated area by planting native trees which in the future will not only help the environment but will allow local villagers commerce wood, fruits and …
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Wendy and Amy at the Flower Market

Costa Rica - Turtles and Rainforest

Costa Rica Tour - Turtles and Rainforest. This was one of The Great Vacations! We made new discoveries and new friends every day. Everyone we met was delightful, and Adventure Life's organization ran without a flaw. Thanks to all involved!
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Art festival in Antigua

CasaSito Art Festival in Antigua, Guatemala

The 2009 Art Festival in Antigua, Guatemala has several goals. Our primary goal is to promote art in the associations and communities around Antigua. We began the Art Festival in 2009 and invited five community organizations to participate. Two of the associations already had art programs, but three art programs were created just so the …
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The work begins with a lot of wheelbarrow trips of supplies

Home Restoration Service Project and Trekking in Peru!

The Greenberg family decided to give back to the area they were visiting in Peru. They participated in a home restoration Volunteer Service Project in Cachicatta community. They continued their tour on the Salcantay Trek where they ended on the Inca Trail at Machu Picchu ruins.
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Horseback riding

Our Costa Rica Travels!

Our Costa Rica Travels!
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School children eating breakfast

Peru Tour Extension: Healthy Breakfast

This is sometimes the first meal of the day for the children and is especially important, as many of them have to walk for over an hour a day to get to school. This is often after they have had to help their parents feed the animals and look after their younger siblings.
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Costa Rica Travel: Turtles & Rainforests

The best hard work I've ever volunteered for followed by a relaxing and revitalizing stay in the Costa Rica rainforest.
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Day 1 balcony view at Hotel Bougainvillea

Costa Rica Family trip - turtles and rainforest, pacuare

What a memorable Costa Rica trip for the whole family -- my husband and I, with our two children, age 6 and 9. We can't wait to go on another adventure.
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Sea Kayaking - Placencia, Belize

Sea Kayaking along the Belize Barrier Reef. Placencia Village, Belize
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OUR TEAM READY TO BEGIN THE FULL DAY TREK IN CACHICCATA

PERU-CACHICCATA COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES APRIL 02, 2009

Activities on the Cachiccata Community in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Peru, April 2009
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I LEFT MY CLOTHES IN COSTA RICA (AND MY HEART)

Where do we begin to tell about our wonderful adventure in Costa Rica? It was a once in a lifetime experience. How many people get to see a leatherback turtle baby scoot his way into the ocean, or awaken to howler monkeys?
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