Gap year & Travel News

Greetings from Kwa Madwala! The July team’s first week has been great and everyone is getting on well. The first couple of days was the normal meet and greet and introduction to the program etc. After that we got strait into the program and went on the orphanage and township tours, the group are still [...]

Unbelievably it’s day 12 now with the April Leapers in Borneo, how quickly time flies by! Everyone’s in great shape and having a great time here. It’s not always easy when one comes to an unfamiliar place, meeting new people, trying to overcome all kinds of fears they may have had but we feel that [...]

Just to let you know, I might just not come home… Been swimming with horses in the lagoon and to a gaucho fiesta in the local town San Miguel de Monte where I got majorly victimized by spray foam, celebrating university offers in Buenos Aires which is wonderfully laid back, drinkies then supper at one [...]

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 [...]

Hi, this is Luke the S.A. Team Leader with a sneak peak at the photo diary of the January team’s adventures so far! 1. This is a photo taken on the Jan Leap Team’s first ever bushwalk. As is now a Leap tradition we snapped them all taking a synchronized Leap from a rock called [...]

As you might be able to tell we are all VERY excited about the new Horse Safari Team project. It’s the first placement of it’s kind, offering volunteers equal involevement in equine activities and incredible volunteer experiences that make a real difference to local lives. Unlike other horse riding safari placements, offered by Safari lodges, [...]

It´s amazing what sleeping in and a hot shower can do to one person, but I am feeling the effects. It was the first warm shower I have had in three weeks and it was amazing. Not only that, but the average group member showered four times in the last three weeks. Gross. No complaints [...]

Last night, while cutting a rug in Atacames, an Ecuadorian lady said, “¡Estas el bailador mejor de los gringos!” Translation: “Hot damn, Alan, you have some sweet dance moves.” Needless to say I was flattered. Not even dejected by the fact that she called me a gringo (not a bad thing in Ecuador) , I [...]

News just in from South Africa Team Leader Louise: After the group did the various township tours last week, they decided unanimously to channel their funds into  a community project at Sivudlindela, purchasing paint and finishing work on the orphanage. The group went to Swaziland and thoroughly enjoyed the cultural show; some of the 6 [...]

We spent the first three days of the week at the Village Museum in the centre of Dar Es Salaam. Here there is a traditional house of each of Tanzania’s tribes and information about the region that they live in and their way of life. We had time on Monday morning to explore, I spent [...]