Gap year & Travel News

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 [...]

Greetings from Borneo! The arrivals of the July leapers few weeks ago was welcomed with much excitement by the communities and staff of Camp Borneo as always. Everyone is good and happy. Over the past few weeks the Leapers have been working really hard and got themselves stuck in with our Kindergarten foundation project in [...]

Well it’s been another successful week fir the South Africa Team at Kwa Madwala. The past week the leapers have been stuck into conservation week which has included taking a trip to Moholoholo, taking a tour of an animal rehabilitation centre, visiting  a reptile centre going to meet Jessica the Hippo (claimed to be the [...]

Jambo from Kenya! Just went through Makongeni to see the Leap Summer Team and everyone is on good form! Last week the volunteers worked a little on the nursery school classrooms that we have been constructing this year and spending their afternoons teaching or helping out with various different Rafiki Kenia projects such as at [...]

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 [...]

Dawn Perkins is currently on a Solo Leap placement at Desert and Delta Camp in Botswana. “Guests on this morning’s early morning game drive at Leroo La Tau were treated to a unique and exciting sighting. They had come across the only three white rhino in the Makgadikgadi National Park when their guide, Lance, spotted [...]

Unbelievably it’s the Leapers last day on the project in Kenya (boo!) and the end of an incredible 10 week gap year placement. Some of the team are returning home tomorrow but most have decided to head off to Zanzibar for a well earned beach break, plus a taste of the fantastic full moon parties [...]

If your in your last year at school or college this year then your Gap Year is getting nearer and nearer (yayyyyyy)!! And if like me your not one to lay by a pool all day everyday whilst overseas (although a good few days on a palm fringed beach never goes a miss), then id [...]

Tanzania-the home of the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater, endless stretches of beautiful white beaches and also the Mtui Family….based in Arusha (the safari Mecca of Tanzania) your hosts on your Tanzanian Leap! Traveling all the way to Africa to stay in a tourist hotel is all good and well, but what were offering is so [...]

Hi, Luke here again with another week’s photos diary to keep you up to date with Leap Team antics here in South Africa! 1) The team enjoy a bush breakfast in the morning, making a fire to boil some water and make toast. Survival studies are going well! 2) Tom out on the kopjies during [...]