Gap year & Travel News

Hi from sunny Ecuador to everyone in the office! Our first week in the Rainforest consisted of gathering huge palm leaves, learning to fold them in a rather intricate way, and using said leaves to thatch the roof of the newest addition to the cultural center in the Tsachila community of Búa. We also had [...]

Hi to Guy and everyone in the office! The girls are doing really well. They are now about to finish their third week and are now doing painting work at the Moshono government school. Last week they finished doing construction work at the Faraja Center. Mbasa and I are putting an impact report together with [...]

A week has already flown by and the Ecuador Leapers have settled into the hostel that will serve as their home for the next two weeks in the beautiful colonial city of Quito. Last weekend´s activities included climbing the shaky spire of the Basílica, roaming the colonial streets of Quito´s historic center, enjoying local blackberry [...]

Have you ever dreamed of exploring Kenya on your gap year? Its one of the most breathtaking countries on the amazing continent that is Africa!! The endless plains of the serengeti, the Big 5, living with incredible indigenous tribes and with local communities, learning about their traditions and learning their traditional dances, teaching english, working [...]

Hi All, The Leap Ecuador group just spent yet another fabulous week in Los Naranjos getting to know the families who takes care of us even better. The girls have been helping cook dinner and the boys have become unofficial landscape designers under the direction of the three youngest girls. This week we helped finish construction [...]

Cheers! ………That seems to be the statement that has so far summed up our time in Sabah, and on a night when 9 bottles of rice wine have been consumed such a saying seems rather apt.  Maybe it is the residual effects of those bottles we enjoyed on our last night at camp Tinangol, but [...]

Hi Alice, The leapers have been doing great and for a smaller group they are incredibly motivated and positive. It has been a pleasure working with them the past three weeks and we have acoplished a lot. Week one the group jumped right into to beach clean ups, one at Playa Melissa and one at [...]

Hi Guy and everyone else in the office, We finished up the cabin! Yeah! And just in time for some tourists who stayed the night in the cabin the same day we finished it. This last week has been a whirlwind of work with hammers flying (not literally, don’t worry) and saws cutting, as well [...]

The group travelled inland for 4 hours into the hills of Caripe. It’s a lot cooler in Caripe, so all those Jeans and hoodies that had sat uselessly unused in Playa Colorada for 5 weeks started pulling their weight. The volunteers camped in front of the Guacharo Cave, an inspiring base to use for all [...]

Izzy Talks began her journey out in beautiful Ecuador this January with one of our Leap teams, spending 3 weeks high up in The Andes, 3 weeks deep in the Amazon Rainforest and 3 weeks at the coast for the ultimate Latin American experience! Apart from wanting to experience the amazing environments, people and culture [...]