Gap year & Travel News

Here is the cost beak-down (Thank you Mathias for working hard on this for me)!: 8 bunkbeds @ Tsh 70,000 each Total= Tsh560,000 16 blankets @ Tsh 15,000 each Total= Tsh240,000 16 Matresses @ Tsh60,000 each Total= 960,000 16 Mosquito nets @ Tsh160,000 each Total=160,000 16 Sheets @ Tsh10,000 each Total=240,000 16 Pillows @ Tsh10,000 [...]

Hi Michaela, Yes we had the meeting and it went well. I have the breakdown and Adam will be mailing it to you today.The kids at the two centers  are very  grateful for the help and they are preparing some Maasai paintings with the kids as a gift to you! The cost we had are [...]

Its 12 days now until the sponsored walk and so far i personally have raised about £160 and getting more donations from sponsors everyday, which is great! I’m getting quite excited about this now…it feels really good doing something for somebody else and I’m hoping to get back out to the orphanage in Tanzania next [...]

It was a typical cold and rainy day in England back in January 2009, and we at Leap Towers were all sitting in our Marlborough headquaters, looking out the window at the miserable weather when Guy (the big boss man at the Leap) turned to me and said ‘Do you fancy going to Tanzania next [...]

Thank goodness! I have somehow managed to get through the 10 hour coach journey from Arusha – Dar (from one side of Tanzania to the other)! And after arguing with an African man (who I thought was trying to run off with my luggage) for about 15 minutes, me and my Friend Fran get in [...]

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!! I made it….after one 7 hour flight, a 4 hour wait at Nariobi Airport and another 50 minute flight I have finally arrived in the land of the great Kilimanjaro herself!! The first thing I feel is the heat sweeping accorss my face as soon as I step of the plane…..the best feeling in [...]

I hope all is well in snowy England! Here in Tanzania everything is fine and the whole team are back in Arusha after spending a week in Lake Manyara National Park, their safari phase. A few of the girls in the team have had a little skirmish with Malaria but they’re all doing fine now [...]

After spending two days in Arusha again, me, Sabrina and Georgia headed up to Lake Victoria. The bus journey took 12 hours and was uneventful but very tiring. We spent Sunday exploring the town and realising that there wasn’t a huge amount to do so we just spent the majority of our time relaxing! We [...]

I don’t know if you know this but Africa is the second largest continent in the world….. but is so amazing and bursting with incredible environments and people it maybe should actually be the size of the whole universe!! Its many things to many people is good old Africa, for some its home, for others [...]

Masaai are best know for their bright, colorful and beautiful beadwork, which plays an essential element in the ornamentation of the body. And its not just the beadwork, which makes for such a fantastic and fascingating sense of style. Some of the Masaai people spend hours a day working on ornate hairstyles to go along [...]