Gap year & Travel News

A letter from one of our lovely team leaders in South Africa – Charlotte! Hi Guy This first week has been brilliant! The leapers started off with a day to relax and recuperate after their long flight.Spending time getting to know each other and starting to work on their Africa tan (V.important).  That night they [...]

Hi to all in the office, All is going well here! Last week we were busy with conservation work and we worked on or completed many projects. We carried on with making the new fire break on the reserve but the bulk of the conservation we worked on was regarding our relocation boma. We have [...]

This has been the first week of the leap April teams stay in Makongeni  after two weeks of living and working in Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary. It was busy, which is what usually happens to the leapers when they come to this camp, which happens to be the leap mother camp. This time we started with [...]

On Monday we had a tour of the community, the museum, the plants and animals.  Then we went up the river and filled the canoe with sand to bring back and mix with cement.  On Tuesday and Wednesday we helped build two shower blocks behind the museum.  This was the first time we were allowed [...]

Hello to All in the office, here are some great shots from your lot here from the day we organised Peace One Day. You should definitly blog this (Camps is in an official parntner for Peace One Day)…. They organised a bunch of activities including songs, poems, dances all about peace and then ended the [...]

Safety should be of paramount concern when going travelling. When in the planning stages of your trip it is easy to be very aware of safety issues and believe yourself to be too sensible not to pay attention to these things when out there. In reality, however, it is very easy to forget about these [...]

As we move on from Makongeni we are all reflecting back on the great times we have had over such a short space of time. Our imaculately constructed quarter-finished floor could have been tainted by no other than our leader Muse who absent-mindedly tiptoes over it not so like a delicate mosquito but more so [...]

Jambo everyone from sunny Tanzania! Sorry about the late blog entry…it’s taken us quite while to find an Internet cafe that actually has a fast enough connection to load up a page in less than half an hour! Also, I just lost the whole of my blog entry cause the connection went for a second [...]

Hope all is well your side, we are full steam ahead ourside! The April South Africa Team seem to have settled in well and are enjoying themselves despite the bad weather. So far the group have got stuck in a few tasks. We have been to the community, clinics and witchdoctors (traditional healers). They have [...]

Hello to all at Leap Towers, Its Luke here! Just thought id send you another few photos for the diary…..We have had some much fun this week and the team have been getting behind all our boys for the football world cup! Below are some more pics of the team in action!! 1). Here are [...]