Gap year & Travel News

Are you thinking of going on to do teaching at university after you A-levels and want to do something teaching related on your Gap Year? Or would you simply like to do something more rewarding with your summer? If the answer to either of these questions is a big fat YES, then look no further! [...]

Hi everyone at The Leap! I thought I  would give a very quick email to say we made it to Cambodia! We have only been here one day and are all  having a fantastic time and get on with each other so well. Siem Riep is  unbelievably beautiful. We are all in love with it. [...]

Three weeks into their Summer in Cambodia and after well deserved rest, spent exploring the capital Phnom Penh, the team are back to work. For the next three weeks they are assisting a rural community with rice planting, setting up income generating schemes and teaching local tuk tuk drivers to speak English. Here’s some photos [...]

Our three intredpid Summer Leapers- Vivienne, Laura and Maud (fondly referred to here at Leap towers as the Three lovely Musketeers) are doing great work in Cambodia and are unbelieveably over the halfway stage of their Asian adventure already! The girls spent their first three weeks in Siem Reap, building water filters with Trailblazer Foundation, [...]

On Monday, we took them to visit the project site including the pagoda, the village around the pagoda and the Don Bosco. The monk at the pagoda had already informed them that we would have the kids in class on Wednesday as Tuesday was still the Chinese New Year and some of the kids went [...]

Hello Again from sunny Cambodia! Not really sure where to start …. ! It’s all a bit surreal in Phnom Penh, all of a sudden we have been taken out of our comfort zone and routine in Siem Reap and we are in the big city. This week has been a real eye opener and [...]