Gap year & Travel News

Mambo from the July Summer Team in amazing Tanzania! Sorry it’s taken us so long to update you all on how we’re getting on but we’ve been kept very busy. So here’s what has happened on our African Adventure weeks 1-4… We arrived in Dar es Salaam and our base in Mbezi Luis on the [...]

News just in from our trusty Borneo Team: Our first Leap camp was in the village of Kipouvo.  We started in a very westernized home-stay, which included western loos, and hot showers…what a treat! Our first project was building the foundation of a library.  We were guided by a local man, called Boy.  Boy is [...]

Hola everyone at The Leap! Since our last blog we have had a very exciting time here in Playa Colorada. It started with a big group of us from Jakera heading to Puerto La Cruz to watch the Caribes de Anzoutigue vs. Leones de Caracas baseball match which had an amazing atmosphere and we all [...]

Hello from Borneo! The leapers had a great time on their first week in country getting themselves adapted to the new (very hot!) environment, the culture and the community at Kipouvo homestay. Their first week included learning basic Bahasa Malaysia, they learned how to play gongs and the local Dusun traditional rice wine making, had [...]

So Friday was fun… our little afternoon out turned into quite a Kenyan adventure! Katie, Ben, Rory and I decided to go ahead of the group and get a Matatu on our own (I’d done a bit of research so they said they were quite happy to brave it with me – Mummy Sarah strikes [...]

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 [...]