Top 5 Canada Roadtrips!
There are not enough words to describe Canada - it truly is incredible, and what better way to discover it than a road trip, the best way to experience all that it has to offer…Icefields parkway This route is on highway 95 and takes you from Banff to Jasper and gives you easy access to one some of Canada’s national treasures - Banff and Jasper National Parks. It is without...
The Great Canadian Language Barrier
Lizzie, 23 from Ipswich currently resides in Vancouver on Work Canada. She
shares her musings on the wonderful world of Canadianisms...
I’m now over four months into my Vancouver adventure, and I can already say that there are some things I’ll never get used to. My unsuccessful interactions with the Canadian service industry is...
Teabags or Travel insurance
The Foreign Office urges travellers to reassess their priorities when visiting friends and family overseas as packing items such as teabags are considered before taking out travel insurance.
Over 12 million British nationals are planning to visit friends and family abroad this year. New research published today by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office shows that:
• Nearly half of young people did not take out travel insurance the last time they stayed with family...
Get your travel stories featured on the BUNAC site!
Calling all novelists, poets, writers, scribblers, biographers, scripters and word lovers! Your long-awaited summer 2011 adventure has finally arrived and BUNAC want to hear all about it.
Whether you’re already an avid blogger or just fancy sending us weekly or monthly updates on your working adventure, volunteer experience or life at summer camp, we want to know about the highs and lows of your journey...
Get your travel stories featured on the BUNAC site!
Calling all novelists, poets, writers, scribblers, biographers, scripters and word lovers! Your long-awaited summer 2011 adventure has finally arrived and BUNAC want to hear all about it.
Whether you’re already an avid blogger or just fancy sending us weekly or monthly updates on your working adventure, volunteer experience or life at summer camp, we want to know about the highs and lows of your journey...
Submit a video of your BUNAC experience and win US$2,000!
As a member of WYSE Work Abroad, BUNAC encourages you to share your work abroad, volunteer, work and travel, or internship experience! Showcase your creative talents by joining WYSE Work Abroad’s “Expand Your Horizons” Video Contest.
Submit a 2-3 minute video, and you could win US$2,000!
Find out more about this exciting con...
Wedding fever hits BUNAC members!
The china is polished, the guards are at the ready, and the fans are lining the streets with bated breath to catch a first glimpse of the dress. Rows and rows of bunting bound the nation with an overload of tea and crumpets at the ready!Here at BUNAC, it’s not only the Royal wedding that has us loved up. Some of our very own BUNACers have found a fairytale ending o...
Your Big Fat Post-Summer camp American adventure!
The final day of Summer Camp USA is always a sad one. As you wave your final goodbyes to the kids and vow that you will see them again next summer, the sad reality that summer camp is over starts to sink in. However, it needn’t be all doom and gloom. Unlike the kids, you don’t have to go home yet!
One of the most exciting ways to spend your time off f...
Want to work in the USA? Don’t know how? Get with the programme!
Work America participants have exclusive access to BUNAC’s Job Directory, making it much easier to find a job in the U.S. It advertises hundreds of seasonal jobs all over the USA, and you can apply to as many as you like! Fancy a glimpse? This is a quick taster of the kinds of jobs on offer:
Colorado
More jobs, more offices - All-New Work Australia extras for 2011!
With the festive season just around the corner, we’re celebrating by making our Work Australia programme even bigger and better than ever before!
More offices AND jobs across Australia for 2011!
We are very excited to announce that from 2011, IEP (our Aussie partners) will be joining forces with the other...
40 things to do next summer
2011 is an important year. Not only will it be the year of the rabbit, the electric car and the New Zealand rugby world cup, but it’s also BUNAC’s 40th year of Summer Camp USA. With that in mind, we’ve put together our top 40 things you can do next summer…
1. Live the American Dream! Las Vegas, San Francisco, Washington DC– they’re only a plane ticket away!
Writing about Volunteer Experience in a CV
Imagine you’ve just returned from a life-changing summer working with kids as a counsellor at a US summer camp or teaching English to disadvantaged children in Cambodia or Peru? YOU know how much you have learnt from the experience; how you have grown in confidence and independence and feel more prepared for what life will bring, but how can you put that experience into words that you can put on your CV use to impr...
Share your BUNAC experience and you could win £1000
Want to tell the world about your BUNAC experience (but your friends are tired of listening!)?
Having recently participated on a BUNAC programme, we bet you have tonnes of globetrotting tales and picked up travel tips worthy of any guidebook!
Why let those memories go to waste? Share your stories with other travellers on BUNAC ...
Improving employability by volunteering abroad
How many times in an interview have you been asked to “give an example of a time when you e.g. worked as part of a team, showed initiative or leadership skills or overcame a problem?” Most employers will only hire people who have experience. The hard part is getting that experience in the first place! BUNAC Volunteer can help towards
improving and enhancing employability.Fortunately, as well as being an unforgettable and rewarding experience, volunteering abroad can be...
Around the World in 50 Lines…
Getting in a tuk tuk
Riding on the back of a moto, sideways some days...
Crossing the road in between traffic
Bartering
The language
Being stared at
The smells
The dust
The heat
The colours
Beautiful countryside
Being surrounded by rice fields
Wooden houses on stilts
People sleepin...
BUNAC destinations take the Travel Awards by storm!
BUNAC destinations have taken
The Guardian,
The Observer and guardian.co.uk annual Travel Awards by storm, coming top in many of the categories. Check out how a BUNAC programme could be your ticket to experiencing these travel hotspots first hand...
Favourite overseas city
1. Sydney - See...