Your Gap year guide to Africa
Africa has the size, diversity and beauty to be the perfect gap year destination. With a year in which to explore its worth travelling that bit further find somewhere that will hold your attention and from the most colourful cities on the planet to the amazingly diverse array of wildlife, Africa won’t let you down. The only regret you’ll have is that there aren’t more days in a year or more film in your camera!
If you’ve a year on your hands to fill with incredible experiences and adventure; why not use it wisely and explore the world’s least discovered continent. Increasing modernisation has made Africa more accessible without taming its wild spirit. Plan your trip well and you can visit some of the best countries in the world from Uganda to Ghana, at a fraction of the cost of the other more famous tourist havens. Take a look at the ultimate gapyear tool; the Gapometer which rates Africa as a gap year destination.
***** Gaptastic
**** Great for gappers
*** Worth a look
** Too much else to see
* Never mind the Gap
Volunteering
Your gap year experience wouldn’t be complete without spending some time volunteer volunteering in Africa. The problems of this continent are so well known they’ve passed into cliché. The legacies of past humanitarian crises as well as the attempt to prevent new ones means you can make a real difference here. In 2006, 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of resources/students-and-gap-years/
I’m totally passionate about travel, it’s been my life and work for a good few years! My travel adventures haven’t really been about seeing monuments etc but far more about people and getting off the beaten track. Even in a country that has large numbers of tourists you can still find hidden places if you look hard enough, living and working in country gives you such a different perception of it and more of a chance to absorb the local culture. I would like to share my many experiences and offer a little advice if I can to fellow travellers or anyone who is just about to set off on a life changing trip!
