Working in Corbett

After more than 1 hour waitting, the couple from the Corbett Reserve got to the Red Chilli Office. They are a very nice couple, that gave me a realistic insight on what going around in Parks around India.

First of all, they are all ruled by the Indian Goverment, which was obvious. Secondly, they advised me that the only way to work in conservation programmes is through ONG's or Universities. The second option is discarded, and the first one, well I'd probably could make it paying them a whole bunch of money.

What they offered me? Well, I'll start with what they do at the Resort. The camp get clients from around the world and India and provides them with excursions or safaris, call it however you please to. So working there would consist on helping in the camp work, such as cleaning, making beds and stuff, and learning how to be a guide, which would be identifying animals as well as spotting and traccking them.

For that to happen you usually have to stay a whole season, which lasts from November to June.

So this is what happened: They actually seemed interested in letting me be there, though they were not sure about it as my Visa end in february. That would force tehm to look for someone else afterwards. On my side, I'm not really sure I want to go for that right now, though it looks like really cool stuff to learn.

So after pretty much thinking, I thought that it wouldn't be fare neither for them, for me, or for the person comming afterwards. For them, as they would need someone else once I left. For me, because I wouldn't finish what I started and I don't know how much would I end up learning. And for the guy comming afterwards because he would hardly have time to start learning well.

At the meantime, I think it's a possibility for the following year acocrding what goes on with my life at that moment, and I could get back and go for a volunteering Visa for longer time instead of a tourist one, which would let me be there the whole season, finish what I started and have a good time as well perhaps.

It still does look like a good thing to do, and I'm not sure if I'm making the right decision by not doing so, but I think it's the best and fairest thing to do.