Gap year & Travel News

The Leap Team 2, have left the coast and are now in Ecuador’s Andes Mountains, was off to a great start on Tuesday as they arrived to the quiet community of Chilcapamba. We worked hard this week painting a nursery and have just recently completed a set of mountains on one wall as well as [...]

You will, I am sure, be thrilled to hear that we all arrived in one piece. The flight to Ecuador was, to put it mildly, long and quite an ordeal! A three O´Clock Heathrow start is never all that fun and the flight was uber long, coupled with lots of smelly people on the plane [...]

Day 3 If were given the choice, I would refer to myself as the African Queen however, seeing as Greg is my boss, I have been appropriately dubbed the “newbie“. Perhaps my moments of absent-mindedness upon on first meeting have given him justification but let’s not delve into those. I may be the new kid [...]

Day 1 After a hearty breakfast, Greg, Libby and I departed from the Country Lodge to for the long journey to camp. Driving through Nairobi brought back many memories of my past travels here including the morning traffic, the blooming Jacaranda trees and of course the scent of diesel and the coating of dust. The [...]

Another good week in Kenya, though a lot busier due to the hectic social schedule we’ve introduced!! Monday evening we went to the local ‘cinema’ to watch the Lion King (imagine more of a mud-hut which slowly turns into a sweat pit as you all sit there accumulating body heat). I think I lost a [...]

We arrived in Chilcapamba last Wednesday after a very eventful bus journey during which Emily very nearly wet herself – apparently some bus drivers in Ecuador lock the toilet door and pretend they don´t have the key just so they don´t have to maintain the toilet! Emily wasn´t impressed and literally had a plastic bottle [...]

A message from Persephone: We are having the most incredible time! WE are so lucky to have such a nice group of people and so far it has been so much fun! The Yanapuma staff have been so nice and useful which has really helped us settle in with ease! We have spent today doing [...]

The 2 Ecuador Teams have now, in the spirit of 1990′s Girl Power, become 1 as the 6 weekers flew off for the next stage of their adventures and the hardcore 10 weekers (Hannah, Izzy, Harvey, Georgie, Ellie, Alice, Jessie, Mark, Keiran and Lou) headed for the hills/Andes for the final phase of the Ecuador [...]

Hello hello it’s Helen Here, We are in Voi today and its market day so going to have a look around later on and have some masala chips mmm. One of our main projects this week was helping to construct the new kitchen at Sasenyi Primary School. This is because the old one had lots [...]

Christmas is coming, the geese are piling on the pounds and if you’re on a gap year, struggling to write your present wish list we might just have found the perfect answer! 4kits.co.uk are offering a great 33 piece Gap Year Survival Kit including everything from a microfibre towel to a torch, sewing kit and [...]