Southeast Asia backpacking dream

Berta Fernandez Start Date: Apr 25, 2017 - End Date: Sep 1, 2017
  • Vietnam
  • Camboya
  • Tailandia
  • Malasia
  • Singapur
  • Indonesia

My Travel Story

by: Berta Fernandez Start Date: Apr 25, 2017 - End Date: Sep 1, 2017
Me and some friends would like to spent three months backpacking and doing volunteer work through Southeast Asia. We are a group of begginners in this world of backpacking, but we are so excited to have the oportunity to do it! We all come from different parts of the world (Spain, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Costa Rica, Mexico) and we want to share a summer together in a place we could do something good for the society, not just follow the touristic flow, but meet real people in their houses and doing their daily chores. All of our contacts we meet through Workaway webpage, especiallised in connecting people seeking help with volunteers willing to do so. 
Upon arriving to Hanoi (Vietnam) we will go to the farm of a men seeking help and we wil stay there for 2 weeks while we explore the surroundings. We would later travel south to Ho Chi Ming City and volunteer in a hostel of the city while others go out and work with local fisheries in the shop of our Taiwanese' family. 
We will continue our trip in Cambodia, just staying some days, to visit Angkor Temple and travel by train to Bangkok. There we will meet our Japanese friends that will come with us for the rest of the trip. We will stay in one ecological farm of tea in the western side of Thailand and stay there for 3 weeks and then travel to Phuket. From there, some will go back home, and others will continue the trip.
Arriving at Kuala Lumpur, we have the opportunity to volunteer at a local school and we will be staying 3 weeks. Our final destination has not yet being decided, but either we will continue until Yakarta or we will end in Singapur. 
All of us are students and therefore we have a low income and do need money from our parents, friends and extrangers like you that would love to help us help others. We just have good intentions; together we have been in more than 4 working camps volunteering, whether it was in the US building a trail or in Morrocco helping a girl school built a wheel. We love to travel, but as well to do something for others. We would love for you to help us, monetary or just sharing our history and trip to your friends and family for them to help us! 
Thanks a lot, and continue to love the World. 
  • Vietnam
  • Camboya
  • Tailandia
  • Malasia
  • Singapur
  • Indonesia