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Join us for Meaningful Volunteering and Luxury Sightseeing.
Experience an Inspiring, Tailor-made Vacation.


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Warning: These trips can seriously enrich your life.

With a luxury volunteer travel adventure, you will have a meaningful experience, make a positive impact yet have time to explore your exciting destination, in eco-chic accommodation.

Enrich your vacation experience through voluntourism and return home fulfilled with incredible stories.

Let us tailor-make your luxury volunteer adventure that exactly meets your requirements and preferences.

You can have peace of mind in the knowledge that Hands Up Holidays has a 100% safety record.

These voluntourism adventures are great for solo travellers, families, young professionals, retirees, honeymooners, couples, schools or companies.

Newsflash: Our Travel + Leisure Logovoluntourism trip to Rio de Janeiro was recently named one of Travel + Leisure's 2009 Transformation Vacations! This meaningful volunteer vacation combines the magic of Rio, the warm and fun loving people and your chance to help the locals rejuvenate and feel proud of their community.

Also: There are still spaces available for our luxury voluntourism, solo travelers-only trip to Rio, Brazil, starting on March 1!

This 11 day trip has you staying in Rio's finest boutique luxury hotel, taking in the highlights of this spectacular city, and enables you to spend 5 of your days helping enrich and beautify one of the favelas (slums) through painting colorful murals. To find out more or to book this luxury volunteer vacation, click here or email info@handsupholidays.com.

Change lives through travel...including your own.

Click to read feedback from our guests, media reviews, and to view your range of taste of volunteering options. 

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Destination of the week - visit beautiful Colombia

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Our Top 10 Trips

   

1. Brazil

'Waterfalls and Wetland'

US$3,000

2. Peru

'Incas and Amazon'

US$3,150

3. New Zealand

'Natural New Zealand - in Style'

US$34,600

4. Thailand

'Taste of Thailand - in Style'

US$3,400

5. India

'Ultimate India - in Style'

US$5,700

6. South Africa

'Southern Hospitality - in Style'

US$5,000

7. India

'Sunderbans Smiles'

US$1,500

8. Australia

Quintessential Queensland - in Style'

US$6,500

9. Ecuador

'Galapagos & Volcanoes'

US$3,950

10. Vietnam

'Vietnamese Venture'

US$2,400

Videos
TV news launch clip

Watch a TV news clip about the launch of Hands Up Holidays

TV3 documentary

A mini-documentary about a Hands Up Holiday in Fiji

Hands Up Holidays Video Introduction

View an introduction to what Hands Up Holidays is all about.