Adios Nicaragua. Next stop Costa Rica. After a four hour luxury bus ride we found ourselves in Liberia, Costa Rica. Although we were only staying in a hostel for a night, we still had a decent amount of exposure to Liberia. Some of us were more than happy to leave the rustic Bone Fide farm. Privileges such as Air Conditioning, TV, a washer/dryer and quality shower rooms were highly anticipated.… Read More
Parents, Friends, and Followers of our Hongi Adventurers,
We had a wonderful day in Auckland and we are now headed south for a week of adrenaline pumping activities with the Blue Mountain Adventure Center. We are hoping for a tramp around/up Mt.Doom as well as any other Lord of the Ring locations we can find! We won’t have access to Internet, so stay tuned until next Monday.
Ryan and… Read More
Hi!!
Where do I even begin?! I could start by telling you all about the amazing animals we saw during our stay…but someone (*cough* liv) forgot to bring the list to the internet cafe. That is okay though, you will all just have to wait a week to see our nerdy list. Just imagine birds of every color and size, ones that passed too fast and we couldn’t help but… Read More
For the first time in over a month of travels we are in the comfort of a home again. The smells of morning porridge, the comfort of a warm bed, and the energy of a bustling family. For the past week the Walkabout crew has been WWOOFing (Worldwide Oppprtunities on Organic Farms) on a farm Carpe has visit several times about an hour from Hastings. The experience I’ve had at… Read More
But not quite.
The group has just returned from a hike up to a Nature Reserve called Ampante on the edge of the city. Spirits were high as we embarked because Quintin had a premenition that a sloth would fall from the trees into his open backpack. We believed him as he was correct about his host family making pancakes this morning. When we got to the reserve we were… Read More
Hey guys!
We just finished our second to last day of work on Sheila’s farm. This week has gone by so fast and we are sad to see it come to an end. Each day we wake up at 7, eat breakfast and start that days work. The work involves planting trees (720 total), herding cows, feeding baby cows, repairing/building fences, gardening and other various jobs around the farm. We… Read More
African dance lessons, surfing, delicious burritos for only two fifty, bonfires on the beach, baked treats, a sweet hostal, and sleep. These were some of the great experiences we had in the small fishing village of Mompiche. As of four years ago there was not even a road to the village the only way to access it was by boat. We arrived early Wednesday morning and all crashed after a… Read More
For the past 5 days the Hongi group has been staying on a farm on the North Islands of New Zealand. Shela (farm owner) has been having us work everyday from 8 – 12 with jobs such as herding cows, cleaning cow pies, and planting hundreds and hundreds of trees. I can speak for everyone when I say there is not one thing we can complain about. After our working… Read More
Greetings from Kigali!
We’ve been in Rwanda for the past four days and are having an amazing time. Shortly after getting settled into our hostel here in Kigali, we got lunch as a group and made our way to the Hotel des Mille Collines (where Hotel Rwanda was based). While there, Mia (as this week’s NatGeo) led us in an awesome discussion about the Rwandan Genocide. She was able to… Read More
¨Watching Willy Wonka as a little girl and giggling at the umpalampas never prepared me for the real cacao, the ashy skins and haunted history of this scared plant. In an open-air jungle kitchen, we gripped sticky blocks of cane sugar and rushed them back and forth over a cheese grater, creating mini mountains of molten, oozy sugar. We ground coconuts upon a hand grater on the counter, a simple … Read More
Hey USA
This week began with a bittersweet ending in Kolkata. The Mother Teresa home is a quiet oasis in the middle of a bustling city. We’d go through a tight alley to reach the front door, admiring the calm blue hue of the outside walls accented with a dusty orange in the windows, metal gates shield every window with varying patters on a tetris-esque theme. At the door we… Read More
Hey everyone, my name is Mira and I am the Bilbo Blogging’s for this past week. I’d like to apologize in advance for only doing one post; sadly the wifi ability on the farm was limited. Otherwise I would have done a post every day.
Wow, I can’t believe that we have only been abroad for 4 weeks! It feels like we’ve been gone for soo much longer. But enough… Read More
Our adventure continues. We departed from our friends at the Mirror Art Foundation and embarked on our long and treacherous journey through the dense, overgrown jungle until we reached our destination, the Lahu hill tribe. We were fortunate to have such perfect weather for the six hours of trekking; a majority of our time in the village was rainy and overcast. Much of our time was spent inside by the… Read More
Written by Walker, a student on the Carpe Diem gap year India organic farm program near Dharamsala before exploring Amritsar
Namaste, everyone! It’s Walker here sending love and well wishes on behalf of the entire Shiva group! I’m so thankful that I found an Internet cafe tucked above the bustling chaos of Amritsar before we head off this afternoon to catch our night train to Agra (aka home of the… Read More
Hey loves! We are in Gangtok and it’s beautiful here. We just passed the one-month mark so it seems like a good time to post some photos. The internet is crazy slow. For a moment I thought I would be stuck with this single photo of us at the airport.
Rickshaws in Delhi! We didn’t know where we were going and then we ended up shopping for two hours. It… Read More
Hola from Guatemala City!
We arrived tired and safe to the G-22 organization yesterday afternoon. They greeted us with delicious food and a lovely community-centered space to live in. Our beds are all next to each other and they’re also in our dining room! This room has seen many card fights and games and heard lots of laughs and songs and sleep-talk conversations.
We’ve learned so much about G-22 just… Read More
Hello everyone, Becky here!
The past few days have been full of incredible sites and delicious food. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll post a few. We finished our time at SNEC (you’ll hear all about that from Duncan) and headed back to Kabale for a night. Then our incredible trekking guide Martin showed us Lake Bunyoni for a few days. The first day we set out… Read More
