Amazing Experience Volunteering with Turtles!!

Absolutely amazing experience with IVHQ and their local coordinators Green Lion. The first week is the orientation programme, where activities include language lessons, cooking class, temple visits and rice field treks. There is enough free time to explore Ubud and you also have the weekend free - I did the Mount Batur sunrise trek (highly recommended!). On the 2nd Monday you are transported to Nusa Penida and start your volunteer programme. The food on Nusa Penida is really good, better than Ubud! The accommodation is slightly more basic but there is wifi! Everyday activities are normally turtle feeding and cleaning (tanks and turtles) and seaweed collection at 9am - 11am, lunch served at 12pm, either beach cleaning or teaching at the local school 2pm - 4pm, turtle feeding again at 5pm. You teach on tuesdays, wednesdays and thursdays for two hours - this is compulsory but is very enjoyable! Some children don't have pens and paper, if you are volunteering here for a long time I would recommend bringing resources with you from the mainland to make things easier for yourself! You have weekends free to do whatever you want, the local coordinators can organise boats to take you to other islands if you want. I would recommend this programme to anyone! You are very hands on with the turtles everyday and it is very rewarding seeing the difference you make whilst cleaning and collecting food for them! I wish I could have done this for twice as long, an amazing experience :)