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 [...]

Last week, hot on the heels of the Ecuador Team, The Leap’s Alice trotted off to South America to see the volunteers in action! It was a frantic 7 days in Ecuador whizzing between Quito (where she was visiting some AMAZING new projects for 2012), the Andes community of Chilcapamba and the Tsachila tribe in [...]

Greetings from Venezuela where the team are going into their 5th week on the Caribbean coast before hot-tailing it up to the mountains for some jungle projects. Over the past few weeks they’ve spent their free time on Saturdays and Sundays exploring the local area, brushing up on the Espanol and generally enjoying the beach…now [...]

Here’s a quick update to tell you about all the great projects the Venezuela team have been working on: The first week and a half were spent working on the beginning design stages of La Piscina renovation. We did a total of 3 beach clean ups where we managed to pick up 3 boat loads [...]

The Ecuador team has officially finished their time volunteering at the coast and what a great end to an amazing 10 weeks! The classroom is nearly done, only lacking windows and doors (which will be crafted and installed by the community). We painted the classroom a beautiful blue inside and out and laid half of [...]

For anyone who doesn’t already know or hasn’t been lucky enough to go to Tanzania with The Leap, CCF stands for Children For Children’s Future and its an orphanage for street children based in Arusha (the safari mecca of Tanzania)! Our lovely leap volunteers have been doing lots of work at the orphanage over the [...]

We are extremely excited to announce that the Cambodia Leap will be changing from January. Lucky Leapers traveling to Asia in 2011 will experience our most exciting placement yet, with a fantastic combination of community and water conservation projects in three amazing environments. Starting in Siem Reap, Cambodia’s hippest town the team will teach in [...]

According to the daily telegraph Gap Year bookings for school leavers will rise by up to 150% this year! Applications to British Universities are up by £250,000 but with 6000 fewer places available than last year, it is believed that up to 200,000 British students may miss out on their places, despite having secured the [...]

Hola, comos estas? Es Flora, we are having a great time here out in Venezuela, especially as we have great motivation from our guide Govinda as well as from Chris at the camp who is really friendly and  cooks amazing food. today we were split into two groups, one painting La Piscina which is an [...]

Sorry its been a while since an update, internet has been down here and things have been busy at Kwa Madwala! The group had a great time in Mozambique and it was nice to spend some time away from the reserve and have a proper relax. Before the six weekers left on Tuesday we have [...]