I arrived in Costa Rica at the end of May, the start of the rainy season. Barra Honda National Park, situated in the north western province of Guanacaste, was one of the lushest, greenest places I'd ever seen. On my very first night in the park, for the first time in my life, I s
The impulse to travel to Costa Rica came suddenly when we were discussing work experience with school. The idea of photocopying in an office did not appeal to me at all, so I chose to do two weeks at Barra Honda National Park on Projects Abroad’s Conservation and Environmen
When the jeep stopped a little over an hour’s hike from the Himalayan mountain village of Ghandruk, little did I realise how much of a life-changing adventure I was embarking on. A few hundred stairs and a lot of panting later, I arrived at the very top of the village, to the p
Travel has always been of immense appeal to me so when it came to the time to choose my dissertation title for my Geography degree, my first thought was where could I go to do it. For me it was the ideal excuse to go somewhere extraordinary to carry out my field research and so t
Ok, I’m trying to write a little something about my time over in Mexico. The only real trouble I’ve been having with this task is trying to fit everything into a two-page spread. If I mentioned everything I originally wanted to, then I’d probably be able to write a book or
Starting offI decided on the Conservation project in South Africa/Botswana because the idea of working in such a secluded and animal-orientated environment was a very exciting prospect for me. I was very nervous before I embarked on my trip, and found myself at 3am the day before
As a part of my university major, an internship is required prior to graduation. I have always wanted to study abroad and when I heard about Projects Abroad through a friend, I thought it would be an amazing opportunity to complete my internship and to travel. My friend, Kel
Why I decided to volunteer in MexicoLast year we had to choose modules for our second year at university. When I saw the opportunity to go on a month’s placement I jumped at the chance. I looked into the different countries and placements for quite a while but all along I alway
When I left for Mongolia in summer 2011, it was not my first experience with Projects Abroad. Indeed, I had already had the opportunity to go to Costa Rica in 2009 for a Conservation & Environment project in a national park, and a teaching project in a day centre for poor chi
Since second grade, I have known that I would spend a semester abroad during college. Where, I had no idea and it didn’t really matter because I wanted to go everywhere! Finally, when I was ready to decide which study abroad programme I wanted to go on, I was stumped as nothing
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