Now – I am not what you call Paul Bunyan, manual labor kind of guy, not unless running from tuk tuks on a daily basis and lifting Christmas trees during the holidays count as labor intensive. No sir. And truth be told, I am more than a skeptic when it comes to volunteer organizations, as if you have spent anytime …
The Curious Case of Tiger Temple: A Month Long Volunteering Experiment
Deep in Western Thailand, in the forests near the border with Myanmar (Burma), rests a forest monastery, but not just any monastery, Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, better known as – Tiger Temple. It is a temple that has grown from a simple place of worship by a handful of Buddhist monks who took in a single tiger in 1999, …
Volunteering with Elephants in Thailand: The Misunderstood Elephant Volunteer
Group D…you are on Ele poo duty today. Grab a shovel and a wheel barrel and meet by the end of the shed Huh? What’s Ele poo duty? Ah shoveling the elephants’ poop into a pile so that they can use it as fertilizer for the banana trees. And just like that, I was knee deep in shit yet again. …