Gap year & Travel News

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 [...]

Hi, I’m Alex  – I’m in my second year studying History of Art at University, after taking a wonderful gap year with The Leap! My Gap Year began with The Leap in January 2009 when I jetted off to Ecuador (in South America) for 10 weeks on a team project. I spent some the most [...]

The leapers leaped higher in the last 2 weeks when they managed to finish some of the projects they started like the old mans house which was quickly done. It was great to see the old man cutting a tape to enter his new house with a big smile on his face and a big [...]

We are extremely excited to announce that the Cambodia Leap will be changing from January. Lucky Leapers traveling to Asia in 2011 will experience our most exciting placement yet, with a fantastic combination of community and water conservation projects in three amazing environments. Starting in Siem Reap, Cambodia’s hippest town the team will teach in [...]

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 [...]

Words cannot describe Africa, one must see it for real, home of the lion, the sunset, the corrupt political deal. The endless plains of the Serengeti, the mountains, the acacia trees, the home of malaria, of aids, the sounds of children’s silent pleas. Its all big smiles, toothy grins and swarms of waving hands, but [...]

Surprise! We have internet that´s only a 20 miute walk from our pueblo. We´ve officially made it and are settled into Chicapamba. It´s awesome here. I never thought that it would, but rain makes me super happy here; it´s so much like home!! We´re high up in the Andes living the life, though. We´re building [...]

Family travel doesn’t have to mean dragging the kids to boring Benidorm or another week’s crabbing in Cornwall, there are now a range of holidays offered by the Leap which combine eye opening volunteer projects with some of the worlds most exotic and exciting destinations. Our ‘Mini Leaps’ open up a whole new world of [...]

We arrived in Moshi on Sunday after a two hour van drive. On Monday we had a tour of the town and was shown where all the amenities such as the bank were, it’s a much smaller town than Arusha and easy and safe to walk around. I needed to go to a bureau de [...]