Gap year & Travel News

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! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hi everyone at The Leap! I thought I  would give a very quick email to say we made it to Cambodia! We have only been here one day and are all  having a fantastic time and get on with each other so well. Siem Riep is  unbelievably beautiful. We are all in love with it. [...]

Music festivals are two a penny these days, so adventurous types are starting to cast the net a little wider and get off the beaten track (if you can call the M4 to Reading festival a track!) for their next festival fix. Whether your tastes are for rapid BPM on S.E. Asia’s beaches, chilled world [...]

Three weeks into their Summer in Cambodia and after well deserved rest, spent exploring the capital Phnom Penh, the team are back to work. For the next three weeks they are assisting a rural community with rice planting, setting up income generating schemes and teaching local tuk tuk drivers to speak English. Here’s some photos [...]

Our three intredpid Summer Leapers- Vivienne, Laura and Maud (fondly referred to here at Leap towers as the Three lovely Musketeers) are doing great work in Cambodia and are unbelieveably over the halfway stage of their Asian adventure already! The girls spent their first three weeks in Siem Reap, building water filters with Trailblazer Foundation, [...]

Alice, Thank you so much for your email. I really appreciate all your efforts to rectify the honestly, small inconveniences that inevitably spout when traveling. I mainly wanted to share with you, what an incredible experience we are all having. Though I am speaking on behalf of the others, we all talk a lot about [...]

On Monday, we took them to visit the project site including the pagoda, the village around the pagoda and the Don Bosco. The monk at the pagoda had already informed them that we would have the kids in class on Wednesday as Tuesday was still the Chinese New Year and some of the kids went [...]