Gap year & Travel News

Hola from a gap year in sunny Venezuela, The team are happy and healthy, now into their 3rd week on the beach at Playa Colorado in Venezuela. Yesterday the final Leaper Sarah showed up and after recovering from her flight the team will be quitting the coast and heading for the hills to spend time [...]

2011 has been a huge year for the Leap in Venezuela. On a year which saw our largest ever team descend on the Caribbean coast to volunteer, dozens of energetic volunteers conquering the highest table-top mountain on Earth, and untold friendships forged for life. However it’s the glorious season of giving, so lets recap all [...]

Panic…Rushing…. Confusion!!!! On your Gap Year and suddenly realized its almost the beginning of 2012, and you haven’t got it sorted yet?????….. If this is you, look no further; we at Leap Towers have got it covered!! Our January teams are filling up nicely and some of them are now at full capacity but it’s [...]

Hi Alice, Just wanted to give you a litte update. The leapers spent two weeks working in Jakera Club and found it challenging but rewarding. They did sports classes in Jakera club, and are also starting to turn our large teachers binder into a more formal typed up version so it is more user friendly [...]

Hi Alice, The leapers have been doing great and for a smaller group they are incredibly motivated and positive. It has been a pleasure working with them the past three weeks and we have acoplished a lot. Week one the group jumped right into to beach clean ups, one at Playa Melissa and one at [...]

Hello from the coast of Sunny Venezuela! After recovering from the jet-lag we were thrown straight into Project One, marine conservation. We kayaked out to La Piscina and Playa Melissa to start our beach clean up. The journey out to the islands was pretty tough and we suffered some serious arm ache afterwards…Paula and Emily [...]

The group travelled inland for 4 hours into the hills of Caripe. It’s a lot cooler in Caripe, so all those Jeans and hoodies that had sat uselessly unused in Playa Colorada for 5 weeks started pulling their weight. The volunteers camped in front of the Guacharo Cave, an inspiring base to use for all [...]

Hi Guy, Thanks for this. I feel that everything has gone really well with this group as far as the volunteer work is concernd and I think we did some really great projects that made a difference here in Venezuela. I feel that the project on Punto Morena had the biggest impact on the community, [...]

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 [...]

Hola again from Venezuela! Sorry for the delay in our blog, we have been seriously busy with project one and two. Project one (beach conservation) went really well, we did a huge beach clean up of La Piscina and Playa Melisa which was hard work but very rewarding. It was excellent to see that the [...]