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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For the last couple of weeks our Leapers have played an important role working alongside the skilled local project staff and community at Camp Mantanani; getting involved and committed,  gained mental and physical strength, overcome obstacles and have done a remarkable job to finish a volleyball court from scratch putting a big smile and excitement [...]

Hello from sun drenched Borneo! All is well here despite the long weekend we had following the tsunami alert! Thankfully it never materialized so no damage has been done. The Leapers have come to their 8th week in Borneo and what a place to be stuck in a tropical island paradise like Mantanani Island! All [...]

Well, here we are in Borneo after the 5th week of Leap project work and still going strong! After a week of living in Sepilok jungle experience (see the photo below of their living accommodati0n!), building bio-gas collector and all that, they continued on their journey up to Batu Puteh for 6 days. Here they [...]

This week our Camp Borneo volunteers had the opportunity to be part of some wildlife project work at the Bornean Sunbear Conservation Centre (BSBCC) and put their jungle living skills to the test, as well as trying out their cooking skills and getting food supplies/preparations (everyone were scheduled to prepare meals for team each day). [...]