Gap year & Travel News

Greetings from Borneo! The arrivals of the July leapers few weeks ago was welcomed with much excitement by the communities and staff of Camp Borneo as always. Everyone is good and happy. Over the past few weeks the Leapers have been working really hard and got themselves stuck in with our Kindergarten foundation project in [...]

If your in your last year at school or college this year then your Gap Year is getting nearer and nearer (yayyyyyy)!! And if like me your not one to lay by a pool all day everyday whilst overseas (although a good few days on a palm fringed beach never goes a miss), then id [...]

Are you thinking of going on to do teaching at university after you A-levels and want to do something teaching related on your Gap Year? Or would you simply like to do something more rewarding with your summer? If the answer to either of these questions is a big fat YES, then look no further! [...]

Hello again, I Just got back from Tinangol and witnessed an emotional farewell between the Leapers and staff/community. They have all grown really attached to them for the last 3 weeks and saying goodbye seems the hardest thing to do. A lot was achieved, experienced and shared the last few weeks in the Tinangol community [...]

I’m in Siem Riep! The sky is blue, the palm trees are green, the roads are orange and the heat is crazy. It’s just incredible here. Even the airport is a thing of pure beauty! Everything is stunning. Done a billion things already including our first lesson teaching in an orphanage where the kids are [...]

Unbelievably it’s day 12 now with the April Leapers in Borneo, how quickly time flies by! Everyone’s in great shape and having a great time here. It’s not always easy when one comes to an unfamiliar place, meeting new people, trying to overcome all kinds of fears they may have had but we feel that [...]

Massive thanks to the Leap’s Summer ’09 and January Borneo Teams for all their graft at the Sun Bear Conservation project…we’ve just heard that the Sun Bear Centre they all worked so hard to help get up and running is finally finished, and ready for bears! Tuesday marked history of BSBCC (Bornean Sun Bear Conservation [...]

In Cambodia 60,000 children die each year many due to waterborne illnesses exacerbated by the countries habit of drinking water out of pit wells. For the next 3 weeks the Cambodia Team (Sergey, Emily, Sarah, Jess, Sarah, Becky, Zara and Josephine) are working with the dynamic Trailblazer Foundation, a local NGO, whose main aims are [...]

Well, after a Mammouth journey (about 17 hours of travelling, 3 flights via India and Thailand and ALOT  of in flight movies) the team finally arrived in Siem Reap, Cambodia last week… Their first few days were spent exploring this incredible town (Cambodia’s hippest with incredible nightlife, beautiful French architecture and only a stones throw [...]