Gap year & Travel News

Jambo! Well, it’s the end of Moritz’s 3 month Leap Solo placement here at Muthaiga and he left us this morning.  Over the past eight weeks Moritz has been invaluable in his assistance to us. Our office/booking manager was taken sick 6 weeks ago and Moritz rose to the challenge and got us through the [...]

Hello all – here is my latest take. I’ll post some new photos on facebook shortly. Cheers, Moritz Well, it’s official…I’m completely caught in the tornado that is the Kenyan tourism industry in high season…’round and ‘round I go….where it stops nobody knows. The wind that whips through the Mara every morning starts the spinning, [...]

Hello Guys! Just wanted to drop you a quick note and say that things here are busy, and I’m loving it. Experiencing and learning a tonne – hopefully I retain some of it. Also wanted to let you know that the new Leaper Ryne is settling in nicely. I’m sure you’ll probably be hearing from [...]

Canadian Leaper Moritz (28) is currently in Kenya on a 3 month Solo Safari Leap to Muthaiga Camp: Calm has returned. It concerns me greatly. After about 10 days of activity, during which our camp played host to several large groups, including the family of a certain Lord and Lady from Oxford, things in camp [...]

Dawn Perkins is currently doing a 3 month Solo Safari Placement at Desert and Delta Camp in Botswana “After their week long absence, and their return last Wednesday, this week has seen our wild dog sightings return to form. The dogs have been sighted on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with Tuesday and Thursday’s sightings [...]

Well, I’m nearly two weeks in to my Leap placement in Kenya…two weeks, and I’m already looking at my departure date on the calendar, circled in a menacing shade of red. Sigh…I’ve been here at Muthaiga Safari Camp in the Maasai Mara for 12 days, and though it sounds clichéd, I’d have to say it almost [...]

For the next 3 months, Moritz Schmidt who is 28 and from Canada, will be taking a Solo Leap volunteering as a camp manager on Safari in Kenya.  Here’s a peek at his diary: Greetings – all is more than well here. I think Greg caught my subtle hints about wanting to see some more [...]

Dawn Perkins is currently on a Solo Leap placement at Desert and Delta Camp in Botswana. “Guests on this morning’s early morning game drive at Leroo La Tau were treated to a unique and exciting sighting. They had come across the only three white rhino in the Makgadikgadi National Park when their guide, Lance, spotted [...]