Visiting Timor-Leste: The Country No One Knows Exists
Author Jenny Lundt received a national fellowship to do research in Timor-Leste and was stunned by the beauty she found in the little known country.
Alternative Travel
What is alternative travel, anyway? To us, it means zigging instead of zagging, traveling to the less visited, less known about, less familiar. GoNOMAD explores the places that are forgotten, and not as on the radar. Here is where some of the best stories happen. Enjoy reading about working abroad, living abroad as an expat, teaching, and volunteering. All alternatives to the typical trip, and all richly rewarding.
Vermonters Get Creative to Keep the Family Farm
How Vermonters are turning farms into B&Bs to save them from development. A listing of Vermont farms where people can stay over and learn about farming.
Volunteering in Zambia
Zambia volunteering: two months at a community school in Chibuluma, finding bright smiles and singing, despite hardship and poverty.
Volunteering in India at the Sikh Temple
Thousands of people are fed for free at the huge Sikh Temple in New Delhi, India. This author volunteered to help cook the big meal.
Logging in the Congo
A description of logging in the Congo River Basin, a government concession of 50 square kms. Congolese pygmys lead the loggers to the right species of trees
Copper Mountain Resort: Oxygen with Black Diamonds?
Copper Mountain offers some of the best high altitude skiing in the US. But when the base lodge is at over 9000 feet and the mountain 12K, sickness happens.
College Towns Around the World for Retirement
College towns around the world for an inexpensive retirement. These seven college towns like Bologna Italy, Cuenca Ecuador and more are where dollars go farther.
Morocco’s Remarkable Women’s Off-Road Rally
Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles Du Maroc is an all-woman road rally in the Morocco desert that pits woman against woman in high speed road rally racing.
Iracambi, Brazil: Conservation Instead of Destruction
At Iracambi, a conservation NGO, volunteers can live in the jungles of Minas Gerais, Brazil and work with villagers who try to save the rainforest.
Tanzania: A Different Kind of Safari
Tanzania. The author spends a few days and nights with a tribe of hunter gatherers in the forests of Tanzania with his children and learns how to hunt.
Aruba: Rescuing Street Animals
Aruba: The author goes on vacation to a beach resort and meets the people who run Sgt Pepper’s Friends…and winds up adopting a cat to bring home.
Italy: Helping with the Harvest in Piemonte
Dogliani, Italy. In Italy’s Piemonte region, the author helps out with the grape harvest with WWOOF and enjoys a wine walk through the vineyards.