freya's profile

At Fuzzy Travel since: July, 2007

About me

here are some websites which might be useful for people who want to travel off the beaten track:

Couchsurfing
A worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit, from advice about places to go to homestays.

Hospitality Club
Our aim is to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, takes just a minute and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other's profiles, send messages and post comments about their experience on the website.

WWOOF
Dedicated to helping those who would like to volunteer on organic farms.
The aims of WWOOF are to ...
* enable people to learn first-hand about organic growing techniques
* to enable town-dwellers to experience living and helping on a farm
* to help farmers make organic production a viable alternative
* to improve communications within the organic movement.

Help Exchange
An online listing of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, homestays, ranches, lodges, B&B, inns, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accomodation.

SERVAS and The Hospitality Club
Bringing people together through hospitality exchange to increase intercultural understanding and strengthen peace is the common aim of Servas and the Hospitality Club.
Servas has a legacy of trust through personal contact: members are interviewed personally before receiving printed host lists to carry in their luggage or study in their homes. You can be a traveller without being a host, and vice versa. All travellers pay a membership fee.
The Hospitality Club (see also above) is Internet-based: anyone can register on the website, and since there are no printed lists, there is no membership fee. To make the system safe, the Hospitality Club uses a system of passport checks and a feedback mechanism through comments on every member.

Hitchwiki
A collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers. It's a compilation of tips about good spots to hitchhike, info about hitchhiking in different countries, general knowhow about what to pack and when to go, what to eat and how to stay safe.

Vagablogging
The online companion site for the book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, by Rolf Potts.

this page, from the couchsurfing website, has lots more useful links + info, including some rideshare websites for those who dont want to hitchhike on the road.

About my trip

i came to japan in april to visit anna, and was originally going to go home after 5 months. but ive decided to stay for a year to teach english.

anna + i travelled for 3 months round the southern half of japan, mainly by hitchhiking. we stayed in a few hostels (the khaosan hostel in fukuoka and k’s house were amazing), but most of the time we were accomodated by amazingly generous friends (some of whom we met through couchsurfing).

anna’s now gone to south korea to teach in a kids’ summer camp, and im http://www.wwoofjapan.com/]wwoofing on a farm in ibaraki-ken. i plan on returning to scotland in september 2008, to complete my final year of uni.

Visited countries

Japan. (1 country, 1%)

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