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 [...]

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 [...]

Hello from Playa Colorada! The April Team (Jon, Tash, Amy, Tristan, Sophia, Adam, Chattie and Gerry) are all present and correct, everyone’s feeling healthy and happy having traded in the dreary English weather for the Tropical Venezuelan 35 degrees and loving beach life here on the Caribbean Coast…what a difference a week makes! We’ve already [...]

Hello from sunny Venezuela! It’s Brendan here, writing from Caripe where I’m here with the group, I arrived here a couple of  days ago. The weather up here is fantastic at the moment and the team are all looking very brown! The first week in Caripe was a bit of a slow one on the [...]

Hi everyone back home, this is Brendan the Venezuela Team Leader…just a quick message to update you on all the January team have been up to since arriving on the Caribbean Coast 4 weeks ago… As discussed the first week was dedicated to orientation, understanding of the area and getting to terms with the rules [...]

Saturday 25th January: On Saturday morning we went to the waterfall to abseil after breakfast! It was about a 30min drive from the lodge up into the Mountains. We had to walk for about 5 minutes from the car and then we go to the top of the waterfall and I was SO SCARED – [...]

Hola again! Hope all is well in England- is there still snow? It doesn’t seem real that there could be snow at home when it’s so hot here! Had a really nice 1st weekend just lazing and chilling out in the sun, there’s another backpacker lodge like ours in the village and they had a [...]