3 Amazing Ways to Travel Across the Globe for Free

Throughout my traveling experience, I’ve discovered 3 amazing ways to escape the money limitation most of us would encounter. I’m saving myself a lot of money from staying in budget hotels to meet my tight budget. I get to taste the local, exotic food cooked by the host themselves. Plus, I get to mix with the locals, living in their world, share their views, building my network, and most of all; I have acquired adventurous experience and involving myself to change the world for a good cause. Other than working abroad to get the paycheck as you travel, these are the alternative way:

1. Be a volunteer.

www.wwoofing.com – Stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. In return for volunteer help in organic farms, WWOOF hosts offer food, board, and opportunities to know more about organic lifestyle. Various organic farm hosts from 53 countries provides thousands of location throughout 6 continents to choose from.

www.svp-uk.com – Stands for Sudan Volunteer Programme and this is a United Kingdom based charity. Volunteer’s tasks include teaching students in university, college, and schools of impoverished country. Boards and meals are provided throughout the stay.

2. Help exchange

www.workaway.info - Involves working for a particular individuals, organization, or families in exchange for food and accommodation. Workaway.info aspires to introduce working travelers and language learners to like minded hosts, without having to pay expensive agency fees. The work involves including simple task like babysitting and shopping, to painting, building, planting or shearing

www.helpx.net - Help Exchange (HelpX), an online provider of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, lodges, homestays, ranches, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who welcomes volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in return for meals and accommodation. In the typical settings, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day in exchange for free board and food for their efforts. This time range can vary considerably depending on the tasks at hand and the host’s preferences. Helpers have to sing up for a premier membership before they can take full advantage at HelpX.

3. Being hosted.

www.couchsurfing.org – The best thing about this community is it provides a directory of both hosts (accommodation provider) and surfers (traveler) from 232 countries who are willing to host or surf. They aim to create networks and connection between traveler and the country they are visiting. The host provides meeting from as simple as coffee breaks to multiple months of stay. There are more than 1.5 million members and a wide range of location to choose from.

www.hospitalityclub.org - Also provides a directory of hosts and surfers. The club is flourished by supporters who believe in one idea: by bringing travelers to get connected with people in the place of their journey, and by giving "locals" a chance to meet people from other parts of the world where increasing intercultural understanding and strengthen the regional peace are possible.

More Volunteer Site:

www.seaturtles.org - Saving turtle along the shorelines of the world.

www.cccturtle.org - Turle teams dedicated in saving turtle habitat and raising awareness about turtle extinction.

www.conservationvolunteers.com.au - Short-term project in Australia, New Zealand and a few international locations. Working in teams to conserve habitats and promote eco tourism.

www.appalachiantrail.org - Volunteering at the Appalachian Trail. It is the classic long trail in the Eastern US and home to almost 2,000 endangered or threatened species.

www.unv.org - Volunteering professionals in The United Nations. From health care and economic development to assisting after natural disasters, the UN offers positions for those that are dedicated to making a difference abroad.

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