Gap year & Travel News

Thank goodness! I have somehow managed to get through the 10 hour coach journey from Arusha – Dar (from one side of Tanzania to the other)! And after arguing with an African man (who I thought was trying to run off with my luggage) for about 15 minutes, me and my Friend Fran get in [...]

Jambo from Dar es Salaam!
Would you Adam and Eve it, we’re now into the 7th week of project work for the Leapers and have arrived at the coast of Tanzania to begin the next phase of the placement! On Monday we put the first two 6 week Leapers, Charlotte and Suzy on the fight back [...]

Hello from still sunny Tanzania!
The Leap Team is doing well and we are now in Moshi doing a kitchen construction at the deaf school. Everyone is in good health and working hard. Time has really gone fast and it’s unbelievable to think we’ll be holding our graduation ceremony on Friday for the leapers only doing [...]

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!! I made it….after one 7 hour flight, a 4 hour wait at Nariobi Airport and another 50 minute flight I have finally arrived in the land of the great Kilimanjaro herself!! The first thing I feel is the heat sweeping accorss my face as soon as I step of the plane…..the best feeling in [...]

I hope all is well in snowy England! Here in Tanzania everything is fine and the whole team are back in Arusha after spending a week in Lake Manyara National Park, their safari phase. A few of the girls in the team have had a little skirmish with Malaria but they’re all doing fine now [...]

Hello guys this is Kalinda writing on behalf of Mathias as he is driving. We are all having an awesome time here in Arusha. Catherine and I have just sponsored a student each at Camp Joshua (pics below!).
We have finished making the garden beds at CCF. Tomorrow we are starting at the secondary school, painting [...]

After spending two days in Arusha again, me, Sabrina and Georgia headed up to Lake Victoria. The bus journey took 12 hours and was uneventful but very tiring. We spent Sunday exploring the town and realising that there wasn’t a huge amount to do so we just spent the majority of our time relaxing! We [...]

I don’t know if you know this but Africa is the second largest continent in the world….. but is so amazing and bursting with incredible environments and people it maybe should actually be the size of the whole universe!!
Its many things to many people is good old Africa, for some its home, for others its [...]

Think it’s too late for gap travel in January 2010? Think again!
Join the lastminute.com trend and book a last minute volunteer adventure with one of our teams to Africa, Asia or South America. The Leap still have a few places left for late bookings on Team projects in Borneo, Venezuela, Ecuador, Kenya, Tanzania and South [...]

News Just in from Mathias, our lovely Leap Leader in Tanzania:
The team (Alex, Morgan and Emily- see their smiling faces below!) have now been here for three whole weeks and are doing really well. The past week the girls have been working on the Sunshine Orphanage doing paintings with the kids, playing sports, teaching the [...]