December 17th, 2008 by The Backpackers Team
Everyone loves free travel, and budget-burdened backpackers are probably the keenest of keen beans for something like this: 3 months of world travel, all on someone else’s dime.
Yep, you read that right… 3 months, round the world, paid by someone other than you, your friends or an anonymous good samaritan (hmmm…).
Sound too good to be true? Well, stop being such a cynic and read on then, why don’t you…
STA Travel – the world’s largest student and youth travel organization – is searching for two people to travel the world on a three month, 15-country trip as the 2009 World Traveler Interns – all at STA Travel’s expense.
For the first time in the three-year program, two World Traveler Interns will be selected and they do not have to be students, just under 26 years of age. The selected interns will document their journey through a blog, videos and photos.
To enter, applicants must submit a video detailing why they should be selected as one of the 2009 World Traveler Interns. The more popular the video (determined by comments and views on popular online video sharing sites), the better the chances the applicant will be selected.
The top 20 applicants advance to the final round, where they will go through a phone interview with the judges. The final 10 will then submit an additional video giving the judges a tour of their hometown before the two World Traveler Interns are selected.
Entries will be accepted through the STA Travel World Traveler Internship Web site until March 8, 2009.
Wanna know where you’d be going?
The most adventurous journey in the history of the program starts out with two weeks in Fiji volunteering at a local school and enjoying a few vacation days.
The interns then head to Australia, India, Kenya and Tanzania, before heading to Berlin to sample Europe with stops including Poland, Denmark and Russia. The trip finishes with a backpacking adventure in Scotland and tour of all that Ireland has to offer.
Nice. Better than nice. Rocking! So, get your travel-happy internet-savvy fingers over to
STA Travel and sign up pronto.
Posted in Destinations, Travel News | 1 Comment »