Gap year & Travel News

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 [...]

These are exciting times indeed- with the arrival of horses for the first time at Kwa Madwala Game Reserve in South Africa. All in good time for our first ever intrepid Horse Safari Team who arrive next week! Jo, Katherine, Lucy, Sophie and Cecilia will be spending the next 10 weeks caring for these gorgeous [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The word adventure incorporates risky, dangerous or uncertain experiences….but an adventure doesn’t have to be dangerous……                Taking a wild expedition in to Costa Rica, an adventure tour in to the pristine rainforests and crystal clear waters of this beautiful central American paradise can be a much safer experience, when travelling with an organisation who will [...]

News just in from Diego in Argentina: The Polo team (Matt, Sophie, Grace, Hattie, Jen and Georgie) have had a great first week in the Pampas and have totally settled into life at La Asuncion. They’ve had a couple of polo lessons, some schooling of young horses (planned to develop their riding skills), lessons on [...]

The Summer Polo team are looking at home in the Pampas already having just spent their first weekend at LA 54, the horse-breeding estancia 2 hours South of Buenos Aires that will be their home for the next 6 weeks. Jen, Grace, Hattie, Matt, Georgie and Soph are the first team of Polo Leapers we’ve [...]

Hola! Just wanted to let you all know what a fantastic time was had in Argentina when I went to visit the Leap team last week at the polo Estancia where they are spending the next 6-10 weeks. The girls were on top form as we learnt the ropes at the polo stables, practiced our [...]