zachleigh

If you have a really good tent, you might be okay. I was in Uganda during the rainy season with my tent and I didnt get wet. It rained...

What is there to explain? In your own example of the volunteer building houses in South Africa, how has this denied a local person...

Yeah, this would be a good trip. You could take an Intercape bus up to Gaborone in Botswana from Johannesburg. From there you could take...

Because it simply is not true. It is easy to provide an "I met a guy" example of someone who says a volunteer kept him from employment, but...

BigBri,...

Well, if the Times Group is responsible for this mess, maybe LP should find a new publisher instead of alerting them of this forum. That...

I know that you have good intentions, most people who want to volunteer do. However, good intentions alone do nothing and in many cases...

Ian Birrell The Observer, Sunday 14 November 2010...

Yes, yes, yes. I was just thinking this. Mind if I repost this in the Africa branch? My god, there are western tourists lining up around...

I liked the Rocket too. I shared a room with a retired doctor who was going to his home village to treat the vilalgers for next to...

Ugggg....lets think a little harder before we volunteer at an orphanage (if it acutally is one) for three weeks. Does anybody really think...

You could be your own overland comapny running trips in Africa and just take local buses.

What #2 said. the route through Shinyanga, Singida and Babati is long....really long. I broke it up into three days (going the other way).

LP is really not to be trusted. (Off topic, but they are quickly becoming the crappiest guides on the market.) Leopards are all over the...

People have been complaining about this for six months now. Maybe Lonely Planet should do more than alert the Indian Magazine team of this...