Gap year & Travel News

Overview of Solo Botswana Trip 03 July – 27 September 2011 – Elise Shaw The tangerine coloured sun rose magestically over the Makgadikgadi National Park waking the animals, birds, guests and staff from their slumber. So began another day in magical Botswana. The three months as a solo volunteer placement with Desert & Delta Safaris [...]

Sophie Mara – Serian Camp, August – October 2011. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SERIAN VOLUNTEER 6.30am Wake up to the sound of the Mara river flowing at quite a pace just feet away from my tent, It has rained every night since I arrived at Serian’s mobile camp, so the river is [...]

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 [...]

Hi Guy, We are all doing well and we are now at Lake Manyara doing plastering at the orphanage. We had an Eco-lodge phase yesterday and we are getting ready for the whole day game drive tomorrow. On thursday, the whole group will be heading out to Serengeti and later to the Ngorongoiro Crater before [...]

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 [...]

Hi Guy, I hope your holiday was good! The past week was a huge success with loads and loads crammed in! The team did 4×4 driving, shooting, elephant groom day, micro lighting, horse back safari, survival night and Swaziland day trip all in the past week! We also went on a farewell game drive whilst [...]

Hello all – here is my latest take. I’ll post some new photos on facebook shortly. Cheers, Moritz Well, it’s official…I’m completely caught in the tornado that is the Kenyan tourism industry in high season…’round and ‘round I go….where it stops nobody knows. The wind that whips through the Mara every morning starts the spinning, [...]

As we move on from Makongeni we are all reflecting back on the great times we have had over such a short space of time. Our imaculately constructed quarter-finished floor could have been tainted by no other than our leader Muse who absent-mindedly tiptoes over it not so like a delicate mosquito but more so [...]

I personally think its really nice every now and then when someone (or indeed a group of people) says something or more importantly DOES something, which really does help you to believe in the kindness of people again! My auntie Colette, who took part in the sponsored walk with us works at a college in [...]

Hello again lovely readers! So its Friday 14th May Today, so I’m pretty late at putting this blog up for you, however i come bearing BIG NEWS which i have just been dieing to tell you! On Sunday 2nd May we did it! Me, my beautiful mum Maria, Dad Ray, Sister Tara, friend Fran, Auntie [...]