South Asia
Delhi: Everything but Mild
Delhi is a buzz of rickshaws, taxis, street cooking, and happily drifting cattle. The sounds and smells are everything but mild.
July 28, 2015
Delhi is a buzz of rickshaws, taxis, street cooking, and happily drifting cattle. The sounds and smells are everything but mild.
Bangkok is spicy in the sense that once you take that first bite, you are thirsty for more.
In an attempt to put our experience into words, we asked the crew two questions – What was the most challenging for you? What was the most surprising?
It was madness. The kids splashed and jumped and yelled and laughed and threw water at each other and at us and ran out and slipped and wow… Pure chaos.
A woman in traditional ultra-Orthodox Jewish attire told Alex and I to pull up our sweaters and cover our necks. Little kids stared and pointed and ran away.
At what point can you justify what happens at the walls and at the checkpoints with the protection Israel is receiving?
I will not say that I went through a butterfly metamorphosis, but I sure did come home a different person, a better person, ready to go forward on the home front and make a difference in some way.
Our 2015 group has been helping UYE promote and screen an award-winning short film about rape and gender-based violence in the community.
I often forget how simple it is to find out more about the people you meet travelling by asking one-word questions: “how?” “why?” “when?”.
RWEYOWA assigned us the project of helping with the reconstruction of a well for access to clean water. We started work the next day, which included removing the garbage and excess dirt from the water source, then building a permanent guard with limestone, rocks, sandbags, and cement.
The soil was hard and dry, like bedrock. Under the scorching heat we dug and dug. We were determined to dig these 25 holes that had to be a meter by a meter.
The OG Amazon Adventure Crew spent our first week in Lima, the capital city of Peru, taking in the culture in as many ways as we could. We took almost-daily Spanish classes to finesse our language skills before adventuring into the streets of Lima.
We’re excited to announce that our Shout Out contest winner is Shelbie Huard! She’s getting a cool $750 discount on her Fair Trade program in Guatemala! Our Community Outreach Coordinator, Eric, had the fun job of giving her a call to break the happy news.
This year, in time for International Development Studies week, we are mobilizing in universities across North America.
Each year our Refer-A-Buddy program rewards team members who educate their peers on backpacking with a purpose. Bring a friend, schoolmate, or complete stranger on an OG program and we’ll kick you back with a $100 gift card to MEC or REI.
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