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nquiry! This year has been an interesting year for Tribewanted. As we continue to find the balance between running a community project and running a business, we often take steps forward and steps back. It is a good feeling to look back and see...

e: Gillian Porter Amount raised: £2500 Fundraising event: Football lottery and disco. Gillian volunteered as a community development worker in a Sri Lankan orphanage with i-to-i in late 2002 and had so many good ideas for her fundraising...

...road without cars. It's a simple life - a little too simple... So one day, a bored and mischievous member of the community has an idea that changed Bunol forever - to promote an event, one in which none of the locals would actually take part.

...the city with a gift - a giant steel works. His aim was to encourage the development of a large working class community, sympathetic to the ideals of communism. He was only partially successful. A large proletarian community did develop...

...it to children on the day for 20p a picture. I'm not 100% sure on this idea, I'll have to run it by the Gapyear.community. They've always been honest on which ideas they believe will work. Still, things are going great at the moment! Long...

nforest-covered mountains. Franz Josef is the more popular glacier, as it's steeper and has more dramatic icefalls. The community of Fox, however, is much smaller, and the Fox Glacier trek is a gentler trek. Skiing, Wanaka/Queenstown Go there...

...one of the largest indoor aquariums in the World or just sit back and admire the Star Trek architecture of Disney's 'community of the future'. Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco Go there because...there's just so much to do! Ferry rides to...

...mature students! I will also be staying with a local family, which will be great as I will be living in a local community and getting to know the people. Do you have any travelling planned for after the placement? I am not planning to...

...tour. Watch traditional dances and learn to play the didgeridoo at one of the many cultural festivals, or visit community art centres and watch the artists create their vibrant Aboriginal art. Wherever you go in the Northern Territory you&r

...picking bananas, grapes, beans, asparagus or other crops. It's hard, physical work, but there can be a great sense of community as you'll be working in a team with other backpackers and locals. If you want to extend your visa to two years, you'll...

...hammock society interviews http://www.tribewanted.com/page/hammocks About Tribewanted: Tribewanted is a unique community tourism project based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji. Tribe members join online before spending upwards of one week on...

...and appropriate. Please email editor@gapyear.com Subject title: GWA enquiry! Tribewanted is a unique cross-cultural community tourism project on Vorovoro Island, Fiji and a global online social network. As well as being an adventure of a...

...bring a bit of the Vorovoro experience closer to you. This is less about Fijian culture and island life and more about community experience adventurous travel and sustainable living. Depending on the location Tribewanted: Live will mix some kind...

ies, Ben's story follows the ups and downs of a global online network of like-minded travelers and an indigenous Fijian community as they attempt to build a new life on a 200-acre island in the South Pacific. All major decisions on the island are...

...are nowhere near as happy as the people living here with almost 'nothing'; a chance to share knowledge with the local community and help out with projects like building houses, water storage solutions and the latest hype: wind turbines! (although...

...VITIKA are the same as Tribewanted: VOROVORO. For Vorovoro, read Vitika. About Tribewanted: Tribewanted is a unique community tourism project based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji. Tribe members join online before spending upwards of one week on...

CE Vorovoro is a place and experience like no other in Fiji. The ability to live, work and play within a real Fijian community is simply an opportunity that should not be missed. But don't just take our word for it - read what other travelers...

...more times than Marau's been on the Malua Bus. What a week to come home. About Tribewanted: Tribewanted is a unique community tourism project based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji. Tribe members join online before spending upwards of one week on...

...was an experience. The chance to meet so many people from across the world and to integrate so closely with a Fijian community, with no boundaries, was too great to miss." Kimbo, November '06 Chief, and ex-Island Manager - "Sometimes when I...