Gap year & Travel News

Hello again, I Just got back from Tinangol and witnessed an emotional farewell between the Leapers and staff/community. They have all grown really attached to them for the last 3 weeks and saying goodbye seems the hardest thing to do. A lot was achieved, experienced and shared the last few weeks in the Tinangol community [...]

The team looking right at home on Safari Week 3 for the Leapers in South Africa and all is going well! Last week’s projects within the game reserve went well and the team are all looking a lot more buff and tanned for their efforts! The conservation work consisted of routine road maintainence, as there [...]

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 [...]

Hi again! Well, we’re now 5 weeks into the January S.A Team’s placement and all’s going well this side! We started the outreach and teaching program today which the Leapers seem to be really enjoying, this will be the project for the next full week so by the end of the week they will be [...]

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 [...]

Another  week has gone by, unbelievably the Leap team have now been here for 4 weeks! Everyone is starting to feel African now and the team is still getting on great.  This was another busy week for the volunteers spending their mornings constructing that walls of a nursery and teaching the school kids in the [...]

Hi, Brendan here- the project leader in Venezuela! Well, our first team of Leapers arrived on Monday night (after a couple of snowy flight delays!!) and so far everything going really well, we’re very pleased with the 7 volunteers in the team who are all in a great mood and potential for what they can [...]

I don’t know if you know this but Africa is the second largest continent in the world….. but is so amazing and bursting with incredible environments and people it maybe should actually be the size of the whole universe!! Its many things to many people is good old Africa, for some its home, for others [...]

Thursday: Well here I am again, back on one of the world’s most beautiful beaches learning Spanish from a lovely language teacher whilst sunning myself, cerveza in hand. It’s a tough job working for The Leap, but someone’s got to do it! I can’t believe Alice and I have only been in Venezuela for 7 [...]

Hello! Helen here… Right now most of us are in the Camp Kenya’s head office after waking up really early this morning to go watch the AFL match at Ngiri’s. I got a haircut at Sam’s today, well i just wanted him to shave my head but he saw the state my hair was in [...]