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Travel Gap Year:

Things to do

Don't look down - Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Down Under. When you go there, you have to dodge the spiders, the snakes and all the little poisonous creatures. But as Victoria Bischoff tells it, the most worrying thing to do was climbing Sydney's Harbour Bridge.

Ocean Spirits Leatherback Sea Turtle Programme, Grenada, Caribbean

Work as a Research Assistant volunteer and take part in night patrols, flipper tagging, data collection, nest excavations and so on.

Advice

Gap Year First Time Travelers Guide

Traveling is unbelievably exciting but can be very scary if it’s your first time, so we’ve come up with some helpful hints to make your first time traveling as hassle free and as easy to organise as possible

Essential Travel Package for Gap Year Students

Leading direct travel insurance provider, Essential Travel has unveiled its gap year travel insurance prices for 2007. With warning that students on tight budgets could find themselves paying in excess of £260 more than necessary for their travel cover.

Destinations

Backpacking in New Zealand

Reports of backpacking in New Zealand are overwhelmingly positive: people's expectations are exceeded, time after time. The word-of-mouth feedback is heartfelt and enthusiastic.

GAP World

Experience the Thailand most Travellers Miss on i-to-i’s Newest Adventure

Imagine kicking back with remote hill tribes on the Burmese border, partying on Kho Pha Ngan, being immersed in Thai culture while volunteering with local communities, unwinding under stunning waterfalls and getting swept up in Bangkok’s frenetic energy

TFL abroad

Teaching in Chile

Chile is a great country. Teaching English in Chile is the perfect way to learn Spanish and explore a vibrant friendly culture.

Eco-tourism

Kan Tan Project, Costa Rica

The project is located within the Boruca-Terraba indigenous reserve near the village of Boruca, SE Costa Rica.

Community projects

Nevada Wilderness Programme, USA

The Nevada Wilderness Programme aims to involve International and American participants who wish to collaborate together on environmental projects throughout Nevada's national parks.

Conservation projects

Statia Conservation Project, St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean

Volunteers needed for sea turtle monitoring and tagging in the St. Eustatius Marine Park, working on the Quill (dormant volcano) National Park trail systems, botanical gardening and species monitoring - on the island of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean.

Gap Year Profile

Outreach International:
Make a Difference by Volunteering Overseas

If you're thinking of participating in volunteer work abroad, we are a specialist organisation that places committed volunteers in carefully selected meaningful projects. We have a wide variety of projects but all of them are small, grassroots initiatives working with communities where volunteer work abroad can make a big difference.

i-to-i:
What are we about?

We’ve been sending people to volunteer in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin America since 1996. We are the original volunteer travel company and pretty much everyone here at i-to-i is a former volunteer or backpacker. We don’t like to blow our own trumpet, but we really know what we’re doing and have 20,000 happy former volunteers to prove it.

Gap Force:
What we do:

Gapforce is a leading gap year provider specialising in a range of worthwhile and meaningful structured programmes overseas. We offer expeditions and adventures, with activities including rainforest and marine conservation, teaching, healthcare, childcare and infrastructure development. With over 20 years experience we are truly one of the original organisations in the industry.