buenos dias from Isla Violin in Costa Rica so I just thought I would do a
quick video to show you this place because I'm volunteering here so I'm
volunteering for about a week and I'm doing it through worldpackers
this website that connects hosts a volunteering house with people who want
to volunteer and through them I found this place this awesome place in Costa
Rica where I'm spending this week and so I just wanted to walk around a little
bit and kind of explain why I'm doing this and maybe why you would be
interested in volunteering yourself Wow look at this view fresh air the humidity
it's amazing so why volunteer I mean obviously it's
to give back it's good to give back sometimes especially when you're
traveling and you have the opportunity you can give back you can help somebody
so you can actually see where your help is going where your dollar is going
where your manpower is going you get to meet the people you have to see their
smiling faces and you get to whatever work you're doing you get to see the end
result of what you're doing and the way it's helping this family or this
community and that's just amazing to see and a lot of people I know will make
donations and it's great but when you do that you don't really get to see the
people that it's helping you just kind of throw your dollar in one direction
and you hope that it's gonna help the people that you're trying to help but
sometimes you don't really know if your full dollar is getting there and even if
it is even if everything is getting there and it's really helping these
people you don't get to see it you already get to see the result you don't
get to talk to the people and that's why volunteering is amazing to me let's go
up to this other company here so as you can see right now I'm in Costa
Rica and I'm helping out with a few different projects
and I get to see the results let's see I made a little friend here and I'm just
glad that my hard work is gonna help him out see are you happy are you happy with
this work yeah and besides the obvious which I was just saying I mean obviously
you volunteer to help somebody out besides that for the travel aspect if
you want to travel longer if you volunteer somewhere obviously you're
volunteering and you're helping them out so you're not gonna be paying the price
of a hotel every night and so you can stay somewhere for a week or two or even
a month while you're volunteering somewhere and you're gonna get ruined
bored you're gonna get food for free most likely and so you can stay places
longer and you really get to know the place you start to feel like you're
living there a lot of times you're seeing the same people every day you're
working with then you're learning about them they're learning about you and
that's just something you don't really get if you're staying at hotels or
hostels usually or kind of do your own thing or maybe you'll make friends with
travelers but not with the locals who really know everything about that place
for example there's this really big crazy spider here then that you'll see
around up in the trees I mean the spider doesn't hurt people doesn't bite people
or anything like that they actually call it a friend
and so just interesting fact this spider its web is really strong you can feel it
it's like a guitar string and so they use that spider's web mixed with I think
cow's milk to make bulletproof vests because this web is so strong now that's
awesome and that's not something you learn from other travelers you learn
those kind of things from the locals especially when you're there for a long
time so I've only been here for a few days and I'm starting to learn a lot of
really cool stuff every day I learned something something new about this place
and it's really starting to feel like home just after a few days here it's
really weird sounds in the jungle also depending on
the opportunity you pick which you do get to pick what kind of volunteering
experience you want on this site worldpackers that I'm using
they have everything all over the world you can pick wherever you want to go in
the world Central America South America India the United States really anywhere
and they have all these different experiences you can learn how to make
chocolate in Guatemala you can care for baby sea turtles ever got where that was
you can learn how to plant corn in Mexico like the Aztecs did you know
there's a bunch of different things there's things for everybody an
opportunity for every type of person and so if you want to learn a new skill you
want to learn how to cook in India cook authentic Indian food with Indian people
volunteering and staying with them that's the way to do it instead of just
taking a class as a tourist in a tourist group where you're surrounded with other
tourists I mean you can do that and you'll learn some things but it's just a
completely different experience and this just seems more authentic okay the next
thing is you get to go most likely you'll get to go somewhere that's off
the beaten path instead of just going to all these tourist destinations where
people always go so you can just take the same pictures and do the same things
that everyone else does when you do a volunteering experience usually it's off
the beaten path it's somewhere that people don't usually go and that's
definitely the case for this place is La Vie Lima is in the south of Costa Rica
and it's not really near other things I don't have a grocery store nearby I had
to take a little boat to get here and it's just awesome that's it's a
one-of-a-kind experience and I'm not even paying every night for a hotel or
anything like that so if you're interested in seeing new places and not
just going to the tourist destinations this is definitely something that you
would be interested in so I highly suggest clicking the link down below
to worldpackers checking it out there's a promo code if you want that and you
know just see what you would be interested in and maybe the next place
that you go when you're traveling you can volunteer help somebody out and go
somewhere really off the beaten path that'll be super interesting if you have
any other questions about worldpackers about volunteering about is La Vie Elena
and Costa Rica or anything else really let me know in the comments below and I
will get back to you and all your questions alright i'm alexander travel
bum i will see you in the next video