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February 10, 2012

Travel Gap Year:

Travel News

Gap year skiing: Easyjet expands offering

Budget flight specialist easyJet has announced increased capacity on five of its most popular ski routes, making it the UK's largest ski airline.

Gap Year 2012

So, it’s almost 2012 and that means that thousands of students nationwide are considering their gap year. With a big wide world out there and hundreds of countries to consider, all offering different things, it can be a bit of a minefield. Take some time to read the Student Times guide to your Gap Year in 2012…


Features

Gap Year First Time Travelers..

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

Top to Tips

Get the info from those who've been there - done that and got the the shirt.

Which book for the backpack?

The perhaps oversubscribed publishing genre that is travel guides gets a thorough seeing to with Student Times’… err… guide


Gap Year Volunteering

Gap Year Volunteering in Tanzania

Tanzania has a wide range of volunteering opportunities available in teaching, orphanage work and medical placements in both urban and rural Tanzania.


Gap Year Working Abroad

Working Holiday Visa Australia

If you’re aged between 18 and 30, with a Working Holiday Visa you can live and travel anywhere in Australia for one year and do any job you like.


Gap Year Teaching Abroad

Teaching Abroad - Graduates Wanted!

Lattitude Global Volunteering has a wide range of Gap Year volunteer programs, which are ideal for gradutes looking for a challenge after University


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.

Gap Year 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.


Gap Year Conservation projects

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.


Gap Year Profile

Outreach International:
Make a difference by volunteering overseas with Outreach International

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.


International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ):
International Volunteering

International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) provides safe, quality and extremely affordable volunteering programs abroad in developing countries all over the world.


i-to-i:
Volunteer Abroad, Gap Year Travel & TEFL Courses

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:
Gapforce is a leading gap year provider

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.


African Conservation Experience:
Make a difference as a conservation volunteer

Have you ever dreamed of tracking wild leopard and cheetah through the bush, fostering a baby rhino or assisting a marine biologist in whale and dolphin research?