I first caught the travel bug volunteering in Honduras and ever since then I’ve felt the need to get out on the road and experience as many places as I can. But for all the travelling that I’ve done since, I still look back to Honduras as my fondest travel memory, perhaps partly because it ‘popped my travel cherry’, but mainly because I got to live in a small community for a full year and became fully immersed in the Garifuna culture. For me, this style of travel – ‘voluntourism’ as it’s becoming known – is the best kind, and here are seven reasons why:
•You see amazing things – living in a community provides you with the opportunity to experience things you never would if you were doing it as a backpacker and flying through in a couple of days or weeks. Even if you volunteer in a fairly well known place you will still get ‘off the beaten track’ experiences by living the life of a local.
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