Recreation

It is summer and all are much more likely to think about vacation. And if you do not like to lie in a deck chair somewhere on the shores of Turkey and Egypt, slowly sipping cocktails from glasses, and then just as slowly rolled into the room, I recommend you read this post. Travel should be in unusual places, to see that no one has yet seen, to try the most incredible adventures. I offer you a selection of exotic holiday-operation.





1.Pouhazhivat for big cats and monkeys in Bolivia


In the heart of the tropical Bolivia is a place where people are engaged in the conservation of wildlife and help to recover creatures, victims of poachers. Asylum and unpretentious operations are carried out entirely at the expense of the volunteers who feed and care for felines, birds and other creatures that bring the wounded and exhausted mistreatment. And volunteers build and clean kletki.Raboty much: to take care of orphaned and rescued howler monkeys, lemurs or the parrot, take beginners, among which there are puma, jaguar and ocelot even walk in a nearby mangrove forest, the birds prepare to the fact that their release to freedom.

Inti Wara Yassi intiwarayassi.org offers a two-week program where volunteers provided accommodation and meals at a discount of $ 200 per day. Those who decide to stay longer, accommodation will cost $ 11 per night. However, to fly to Bolivia will have his own expense.

2.Razvodit wild horses in the United States


In the very place where they filmed comedy "Sideways" is a reserve "Back to Freedom", one of the private schools where the adult horses, mares and foals grazing in freedom and form a herd naturally. The work will be difficult and not very clean, but those who love horses will find it for a lot of pleasant moments: for example, to look after the rescued foals orphaned. Watch as foals learn to live with other horses, and they take them to his loving family very touching. Living volunteers in prostetski wooden houses, and near the sea and plenty of surf on the nearby beach, also near by excellent wineries.

"Back to Freedom» returntofreedom.org offers free accommodation for the volunteers who come for 2 weeks or more. Those who stay less long term accommodation will cost $ 45 per night.

3.Zabotitsya of seabirds in Greece


Few people know that in the Pharos center is taking care of the wild Alkyonis. This villa, which is surrounded by shining sea, a part-time home of the head of a public island Marios Furnarisa. The villa is open center, where they can relax weary flight or wounded birds, and another island pelicans, herons and flamingos. For patients who can no longer survive in the wild on their own, set aside specially designed cages. Volunteers can live in the villa an unlimited amount of time, if the will to care for the sick and wounded birds and other wildlife species: turtles, hedgehogs and rabbits. On weekends, you can take up the study of underwater caves and cliffs, but also to explore a variety of local wines, which, they say, superb taste.

The villa The Aegean Wildlife Hospital alkioni.gr can be free to live a week or longer. For those who come for less time, provided cheap apartments close to the villa.

4.Priyutit Thai elephants


On the border of the rainforest in Chiang Mai Park provides refuge of wild elephants orphaned, injured and left without supervision for Elephants. This park has created a girl magazine "Time" has made the list of "Heroes of Asia-2005" for her work in conservation. Park - one of the few places in Thailand where elephants are not plagued by tourist visits and circus performances. Volunteers feed, wash and soothe the elephants who get into a fuss or suffered injuries, as well as look after the warthogs, water buffalo, cats and dogs. When the animals recover, the owner of the park escorts them to your elephant paradise, 2,000 acres of forest, where elephants can live in peace. And seeing elephants to freedom - one of the main beautiful moments of volunteering in the park. Volunteers go elephant trekking at night the jungle - a vivid experience is no substitute. And after a while elephants mastered free, volunteers living nearby in tents under the open sky.

Park wild elephants elephantnaturepark.org/volunteer offers accommodation in local huts with hot showers and a three-time vegetarian food. It is a pleasure $ 310 a week. Fly to Thailand have their own account, as is usual in such cases.

5.Pasti sea turtles in Costa Rica


Watch hundreds of babies turtles on the beach and to accompany them while they are looking for the way to the ocean - very touching entertainment. This project is in the national Costa Rican Reserve is in charge of the volunteers who are helping to protect turtle nests at night patrolling the coastline to scare away poachers and serve as a guarantee that the young still get to the water. The population of leatherback turtles has reached critically low numbers, more than 80% of the population was wiped out in the last decade, after the nesting beaches on the Pacific coast turned into a fashionable resort.

Stop at the research station or any of its employees home is $ 310 per week or $ 930 per month. Go to Costa Rica need from July to December tortugamarina.org.

6.Vyraschivat food for black rhinos in Kenya


Black rhinos are critically endangered, prefer only vegetarian food. Volunteers are responsible for ensuring that green areas that affect the lives of these and other herbivores, were in the right condition. Volunteers participate in the 2-week program research center "Svitvoters." The center is located in the middle of savanna and oversees the 46 hectare reserve Ol Peheta on the lava plateau between two mountain chains. I went there as a volunteer, you can observe the behavior of the rhinos in the capture and pass route on the scorched earth of the equator in search of lions, leopards, zebras, buffalo, antelope, baboons and hippos.

Earthwatch earthwatch.org offers a 15-day program, valid from January to October, for about $ 1,800, with accommodation and meals.

7.Ohranyat vultures in Croatia


It turns out that protection need not only charming birds, but large birds of prey. Vultures also belong to the species, desperately fighting for survival. When 15 years ago, Dr. Goran Susik created on the Adriatic island of Cres conservation center, we lived here only 25 pairs of vultures. Now there are nearly a hundred. Volunteers feed the chicks, check the nest, so that no one chick falling out at sea and caring for demanding teenage vultures. This serene sunny place, thickly overgrown forests, in combination is a refuge for wolves and bears. And will free minutes - you can climb to the surrounding ruins and wander through the monasteries, enjoy spectacular sea views and watch the dolphins.

Eco Centre Caput Insulae Beli supovi.hr invites volunteers who will have to pay $ 200 per week for accommodation, meals and airport transfers, if they take their journey from June to September, and $ 120 in the period from October to May.

8.Raschischat road lizards in Honduras


Not far from the coast of Honduras is the greatest rarity of the Caribbean - an island on which untouched tourist. Conservation Area Utila Iguana - Plexus luxuriant leaves, tall trees and orchids is a unique treasure trove of brilliant and habitat lizards, birds and various strange creatures. Zone created to protect nearly extinct local iguanas and reptiles that are in danger due to the fact that the owners plowed mangrove seedlings and beaches where the female iguanas are usually laid eggs. It is home to many species of tropical birds, as well as white-tailed deer, wild boars and raccoons. In addition to the issuance of feed and care for the kids, the volunteers performed a bunch of other work: clean the track and mow the grass.

Conservation Area Utila Iguana utila-iguana.de invites volunteers for four weeks for $ 200 with the settlement.

9.Vysledit Arabian leopards in Oman


Claw marks on a tree, footprints ... That's undeniable evidence that a volunteer is on the trail of the rare Arabian Leopard. In the Arabian Peninsula, he almost became extinct. Enlisted in a long research project, a volunteer with the help of scientists from the Royal Court of Oman and an international research team will look for traces of the leopard, moving on foot and on camels, to install security cameras to look for watering places and ask locals if they had seen recently that strange. To live is expected in a camp in the open field, but if you do not like it, you can spend a couple of nights, pitch a tent in the bush.

Biosphere Expeditions biosphere-expeditions.org volunteers calling for a 12-day trip in January or February, worth about $ 1,500 from the nose.

10.Ohranyat giant pandas in China


For anyone who is crazy about pandas, it has a unique opportunity to be close to these unique animals. In the world there are fewer than 1,000 giant pandas, and about 300 of them live on the reservation in Shanxi Province near the city of Xi'an. Those who organized a volunteer guard pandas in Xi'an Center Pandas, get a breathtaking chance to be close to these mysterious animals. The center is located at the foot of the mountains and gives volunteers the opportunity to ponyanchitsya with cubs in a special nursery or look after the animals caught. By the way, there are not only giant pandas. There is also a small red panda, black deer, monkeys and golden takin. And for those who come in the summer, in the mating season, have the opportunity to stroll through the surrounding forests and juniper watch pandas at large.