Gap year & Travel News

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 [...]