Gap year & Travel News

Leah and Mike are amazingly 3 weeks into their Venezuelan adventure with The Leap…. Hola- Leah here! Hey sorry its been a while since we last wrote! We have been a bit busy! Firstly we finished off clearing the beach and built a bin. We decided to go for bright colours and covered it in [...]

Hey! This is Mike from the Venezuela team. I’m kinda sending a group email and it’s proving difficult with this crappy internet in Puerto lol! Just to let you know that we’re all having an AMAZING time! I’m glad we’re doing the daily blog now its good to keep you guys updated with all our [...]

Hola, comos estas? Es Flora, we are having a great time here out in Venezuela, especially as we have great motivation from our guide Govinda as well as from Chris at the camp who is really friendly and  cooks amazing food. today we were split into two groups, one painting La Piscina which is an [...]

Hola all! All is well with Leap Venezuela team. They are a fantastic bunch, full of enthusiasm and are very helpful in general. Last week we had 10 hrs of Spanish which all seem to have enjoyed and benefited from. We took them on a walk around Playa to meet the neighbours and see how [...]

The 2 Ecuador Teams have now, in the spirit of 1990′s Girl Power, become 1 as the 6 weekers flew off for the next stage of their adventures and the hardcore 10 weekers (Hannah, Izzy, Harvey, Georgie, Ellie, Alice, Jessie, Mark, Keiran and Lou) headed for the hills/Andes for the final phase of the Ecuador [...]

Since coming back from Argentina I honestly haven’t been able to stop going on about my time there, my friends are sick of hearing about it! I miss everybody, the polo… Hmmm. Must say the Spanglish efforts are improving, I can now vaguely converse with a taxi driver, understand half a menu and name every [...]

Keep up to date with the goings on of our Ecuador project hosts here.

The Rainforest – Leaves, massages and more rice than you can shake a stick at… So we left Quito early on Sunday morning. We´d gone out for dinner the night before in a torrential downpour so a few of my clothes were slightly damper than I´d hoped but I was to soon get used to [...]

Hello again, Hard to believe we’re already into the 3rd week of the April Team’s placement…time’s flying past! As I mentioned before we spent the group’s first week at Playa doing orientation and planning, the group came with me on a tour of the village (which is already feeling like home from home!) and visited [...]

Sofie’s Team @ the Coast: Emily, Caroline, Eliza, Alexa, George, Catherine, Kieran, Emily, Georgie and Hannah Kauffman. Sofie´s group went to the coastal town of Mompiche for the weekend after their second week in Caimito. Alexa and Catherine decided to stay in Atacames as Catherine is having some trouble with a bank card and they [...]