Gap year & Travel News

Hello from Borneo! All is great out here in the tropics. Our team of seven lucky Leapers arrived last week an have spent their 1st week in at the indigenous jungle community of Tinangol and have gone through their first few days being welcomed by the locals, acclimatizing, and being treated to cultural and traditional [...]

Hey all! Sorry about my lack of communication thus far, I´d love to say that I´ve been splayed out across a beach getting a tan, but I have been BUSY! So, week one in Ecuador has been exhausting, bemusing, at times hilarious and at times stressful, but all in all it´s felt like a hell [...]

  Hi Guy, The group are great and settling in to South African bush life well! As you know, their flight here was a long one, so their  first day here we took it easy on them and they had a relaxing day, just getting to know each other and settling in to their new [...]

  If you choose our Law Internship in Tanzania you will find yourself based in one of the nicest areas in East Africa. Arusha is a bustling town on the slopes of Mt Meru. It has always been the starting point for all safaris into the Great Rift Valley where tourists flock to marvel at [...]

Members of The Year Out Group have reported that the most popular destination for travel and volunteering last year was (…drum roll!) South Africa! Here at the Leap we sent nearly 100 volunteers to the sunshine state in 2011 and have found demand for places on the S.A team in the last few months to [...]

Writing this on our last day in Kenya seems very strange, ten weeks have flown by and we have met so many incredible people and done some truly unforgettable things. So our Kenya Leap all began in Shimba Hills, at the Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary. Its remote location allowed us to all bond extremely quickly due [...]

So our gorgeous team of intrepid Leapers have now been in South Africa for 9 weeks and are winding up their programme before leaving for the next stage of their gap year adventures next week. After 10 weeks of Team Leap and Team Horse Leap volunteering, no doubt it’ll be a weekend of farewell parties [...]

You may not know, but in addition to life-changing volunteer projects The Leap also specializes in equine sporting placements overseas. Our programmes in Argentina (Polo) and South Africa (Riding Safari and conservation) give riders an incredible experience of horses in exotic locations and the opportunity to ride up to 6 times per week! We currently [...]

Hi to Guy and everyone in The Leap Office, Can you believe how fast this time is going, its been 8 weeks already. The team will complete their project in Sihanoukville tomorrow (Thursday 29th Feb). During their 2 weeks here on the palm fringed beaches on the gulf of Thailand, they have been working hard [...]

Good morning to everyone in The Leap Office, I just wanted to send you a brief update from the stunning wilderness that is Tsavo where the Leap team currently are. All are well and busy with a mixture of work at the wildlife sanctuary, where we are focusing on maintaining elephant waterholes which are silted [...]