merchanttraveller excursions
London
After leaving the UK in 2010 and embarking on a backpacking trip to Indonesia
alone spending 12 days in the forest with three local guides. Wanda, Bendy and
Ping yes that was their names travelling through the forest and camping at a new
spot each night. Which added some life-changing experiences for me a nieve
17-18-year-old alone in a foreign country with me not knowing any part of the
local language. When I got back to the UK I decided on this as a hopeful career
path which I am still working toward now. I decided I wanted to work in the
travel industry, where my passion in life truly lies. So I came back to the UK
after that trip and immediately planned for other journeys. Still living with
family I decided to explore a bit of Latin America which I really enjoyed the
culture the idea of working out here was overwhelming. So in 2011, I went to
Costa Rica. But where the trips truly took an expedition type feel was when
planning from start to finish around 8 months prior to going away. I planned and
prepared for a journey to the Darien gap Panama-Colombia border region. Which
went as best as could in this region. I then began planning my return to head to
Guyana where we canoed a river we, meaning myself 2 local guides travelled for
11.5 days and travelled 288km to be exact. I knew that my dream job would now be
to work as an expedition leader where I could live out my passion for leading in
remote and exciting places. I now had an abundance of remote travel experience
and the required knowledge and soon the qualifications that it takes to do this.
But I was still without the valuable experience required to teach and lead
people in remote places. I have now done my ML training so that I would soon
have the qualification to make this a career choice of mine.
