Gap year & Travel News

Hi, This week has been really exciting; we have learned a lot from each other and about the customs of Ecuadorians. Today the last team member (Rob) arrived safely and enjoyed a delicious breakfast for dinner we all shared! The team have been learning Spanish and started working on Monday in two different groups: 1. [...]

Hola from Ecuador, Our biggest Leap team EVER arrived safely last week after a mammoth flight. Thankfully those coming from the UK avoided a couple of days of windy weather and lengthy delays (thank you Leap Gods!) and we volunteers flying in lots of other directions too – England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, Spain, Italy, Colombia [...]

2011 has been a huge year for the Leap in Venezuela. On a year which saw our largest ever team descend on the Caribbean coast to volunteer, dozens of energetic volunteers conquering the highest table-top mountain on Earth, and untold friendships forged for life. However it’s the glorious season of giving, so lets recap all [...]

This year The Leap celebrated our 6th year of gap year volunteer work in Costa Rica! Over that time Leapers have helped with a huge range of projects in the El Silencio Cooperative community, helping the village to unite and develop so that every family has comfortable living conditions and the next generation a brighter [...]

Well done Kenya Leapers, your hard work volunteering in Imani village over the past 6 months has resulted in a shiny (ok, well perhaps not shiny!) new centre for the women’s group. Complete with a Leap sponsored Kitchen this will be a fantastic resource for the community and hopefully part of village life for many [...]

How can 10 weeks have passed so quickly? The September team have just returned from a successful Sabie trip (great to go out with a bang/bridge swing!) and all are fit after some rather hot extreme adventures! They’ve been very proactive over the past 10 weeks especially as there has only been three of them [...]

We arrived in Chilcapamba last Wednesday after a very eventful bus journey during which Emily very nearly wet herself – apparently some bus drivers in Ecuador lock the toilet door and pretend they don´t have the key just so they don´t have to maintain the toilet! Emily wasn´t impressed and literally had a plastic bottle [...]

Hi again! It’s been another good productive week in sunny South Africa! The past week the team have been very involved in the community with both building of the orphanage as well as teaching and playing sport at the local rural school. At the orphanage the group used their donation money and bought the materials [...]

Fancy a Gap Year to South Africa? What more could you want in a country when a gap year traveller or volunteer can experience some of the best wildlife conservation, such as on our Gap Year project in a private game reserve, where you can work with elephants and leopards, go on game drives both [...]