Gap year & Travel News

Greetings from Venezuela where the team are going into their 5th week on the Caribbean coast before hot-tailing it up to the mountains for some jungle projects. Over the past few weeks they’ve spent their free time on Saturdays and Sundays exploring the local area, brushing up on the Espanol and generally enjoying the beach…now [...]

Hola again from Venezuela! Sorry for the delay in our blog, we have been seriously busy with project one and two. Project one (beach conservation) went really well, we did a huge beach clean up of La Piscina and Playa Melisa which was hard work but very rewarding. It was excellent to see that the [...]

Here’s a quick update to tell you about all the great projects the Venezuela team have been working on: The first week and a half were spent working on the beginning design stages of La Piscina renovation. We did a total of 3 beach clean ups where we managed to pick up 3 boat loads [...]

Hola from Venezuela! Our group has so far hit it off from the moment we met at 5am at Heathrow airport. We quickly bonded over lost luggage, lack of Spanish and “plane-sized sharks” (actually the plane’s shadow on the water – well done Phoebe!). We even managed to get the terrifyingly outnumbered boys to talk [...]

Leapers in Venezuela last week launched a facebook group page to promote their marine conservation campaign in La Mochima National Park. Join the group and show your support for this fantastic cause: “Hi there, we are a team of intrepid gap yearers working for a gap year company called The Leap. Our current project is [...]

Hola from Playa Colorada in Venezuela! The April Leapers are off to a great start. The team spent the weekend at the beach and as a result almost all are a bit sunburnt, we went in the boat to visit La Piscina and Playa Melissa (islands with beaches in the Mochima National Park) and talked [...]

If your idea of a summer well spent involves powder soft  sand, palm-fringed beaches, surfing the best breaks and swimming through coral reef teeming with tropical fish then look no further (in fact you might as well dig out your bucket and spade now). Most of The Leap’s Summer Teams volunteer on or near some [...]

The Venezuela Team has been in Caripe for the past few weeks, they did volunteer work planting trees on the farm, and restocking the nursery from the last Leap Group. They also did some volunteer work that they all said felt really good at a local school, teaching English classes, painting, and helping out with [...]

Just wanted to let you know the gorup made it safe and sound to Caripe. Will update you periodically as to how they are and what they are up to. This last week the group did sports with the kids of Playa Colorada and helped to paint the local school, which is a project that will continue [...]

Hola everyone at The Leap! Since our last blog we have had a very exciting time here in Playa Colorada. It started with a big group of us from Jakera heading to Puerto La Cruz to watch the Caribes de Anzoutigue vs. Leones de Caracas baseball match which had an amazing atmosphere and we all [...]