Student Travel Abroad

For many years a trip abroad meant that the traveler was headed to Europe. This is where Ralph Waldo Emerson said that any educated American, sooner or later, would visit. For a long time this was true and still holds for most people. But many people are looking beyond a trip to Europe to further their education. Europe has become a no brainer where many go in their early teen years or for entire years in college to study.

The further flung continents are calling to students to travel further abroad. Asia and Australia are frequent destinations. The more obscure and further abroad the seemingly more attractive to today's student. This sense of going abroad is expanded to become exotic and unique. There is no place further abroad and off the beaten track than the island nation of Western Samoa visited by Off the chART Travel. This is students traveling abroad at its best. The far fetched islands are thousands of miles from any continent. Yet these peaceful, humble, hospitable inhabitants are credited with being the heart of Polynesia. It is said that all of the islands in Polynesia including New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island were originally inhabited by people coming from Western Samoa.

These are people who defined what it means to travel abroad. They daringly get into their dugout canoes armed only with courage and an expansive knowledge of celestial navigation and set out to explore the south pacific. These people now await eager students who want nothing more than to escape the dull entrapment of their western lives to take on a new, more vibrant life among. There are few people who can show today's students what it means to experience traveling abroad than these salty mariners.

They take them under their wing and guide them through their day to day life of subsistence. There is fishing in the lagoons with a spear or hiking up to the plantation with the donkey to pull up giant tubers called taro to boil and eat for dinner. The proximity of life in Western Samoa to the raw elements is unmistakable.

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