It's the holiday season. You want to give back. This week we give you ways to get your quota of adventure, experiences, and foreign shores - and make a difference.
Hands Up Holidays takes you to Vietnam to teach English or Morocco to repair buildings. We love the Incas & Amazons excursion to Peru where you spend four days in a village near Cuzco teaching, building, painting and gardening alongside local villagers, before you trek the Inca Trail, culminating with a view of the sunrise over Machu Picchu.
If you're a sucker for animals, sign up for Inside/Out's May trip to Zagoria, Greece to help the area's neglected dog population. You'll spend the first part of the trip working at an animal shelter near Athens, then travel to Ioannina in northern Greece for educational work, before getting an adventure tour of the surrounding mountains.
Or join Relief Workers International on a medical trip through India where you'll help doctors provide free medical care to local villagers.
Who said traveling can't make the world a better place?
