Gap year & Travel News

Hi Guy and everyone else in the office, All is going well here and the team have settled in really well! This past week the girls have been busy with conservation work. They have been involved in the following: •bush clearing of a burnt area after a bush fire that come through Kwa Madwala. These [...]

Hello from sunny South Africa! What a week it’s been… The Leapers have been on their African gap years now for nearly 3 weeks and are settling into life on the game reserve.  Over the past week they’ve taken part in a mix of community development projects and helped out with conservation initiatives here in [...]

As reported in the Blog several months ago, illegal Rhino poaching is at an all time high in South Africa with a known 85 killings this year alone. Rhino are butchered for their horns, which consist of keratin (like the human fingernail) and can actually survive if they are removed. However, tragically poachers kill or [...]

Greetings from the Bush! Our 27 (!) Leapers are well and have been kept very busy this end. Currently I’m out with 9 volunteers in the community teaching at one of the local senior schools. The others are back on the reserve doing various tasks including lion and elephant tracking using the telemitry device, anti [...]

All is going great this side and all the Leapers have settled in well, it seems like a very good group! To date the volunteers have been busy with game drives, bush walks, grass surveys, making the new volleyball court and veggie garden, breaking down an interior fence, road maintenance by creating miter drains on the side [...]

The group have been kept very busy over the past couple of weeks. Highlights include a Rhino walk where we got up close and personal on foot with three White Rhinos. Rhinos around the world are in danger and under treat due to habitat degredation as well as poaching. Many people believe that Rhino horn [...]

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 [...]

Well the past week has been based around community work. The South Africa Leap Team went through to a local High school called Sidlamafa Secondary School and they taught the students an array of subjects ranging from Drama through to World cultures and customs. Leapers were also involved with the building of another room onto [...]

Well it’s been another successful week fir the South Africa Team at Kwa Madwala. The past week the leapers have been stuck into conservation week which has included taking a trip to Moholoholo, taking a tour of an animal rehabilitation centre, visiting  a reptile centre going to meet Jessica the Hippo (claimed to be the [...]