Everybody wants to travel for free. Not budget travel, low-cost, or shoestring travel. Free travel. Here we’ll discuss just five ways you can travel around the world for free. The most important thing to remember when you’re thinking up ways to incorporate free travel in your life is creativity. With a creative, open mind you’ll be able to find opportunities and chances to travel to amazing, exotic places that the average traveler will never see.

Topping our list is the best job in the world where you won’t just be able to travel to and live on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for free, you’ll get paid for it. Don’t believe you can get paid to travel for free to Australia? Think again. This cush job comes with a rent-free three bedroom house on the beach with a $105,000 AUD salary for six months. The job entails hiking, swimming, and snorkeling Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and then writing about it on a tourism blog. This free travel job has been sponsored by the Queensland board of tourism as a way to promote tourism and travel in the face of hard economic times.

Want to spend two or three years of your life traveling for free and helping people in developing countries? If you’re a US citizen and over age 18 you can join the Peace Corps! In addition to providing training, free travel, and free insurance, the Peace Corps will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in another culture while contributing to development, education, agriculture, and many other programs.

Ahoy there! Sailors and boaters will be enchanted by the number of free travel positions available on private sailboats. Skippers and boat owners will often take on unpaid crew to assist with ocean crossings or other long passages. Sailing skills are a plus, but a good attitude and willingness to learn are the top skills required for this free travel gig. Some boats will ask you to split the cost of your food and alcohol, but you should never be asked to pay for fuel or boat expenses. For more free travel information on sailboats, check out Crewseekers or 7knots. Post your resume or just check out boats needing free crew all over the world. Welcome aboard!

So, there you go. Three whole new ways you never knew you could travel for free. Stay tuned for more free travel tips in the next installment of our free travel guide. Safe travels!

UPDATE: Two more ways to travel for free.