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Just want to travel? see our range of gap year travel programmes, including tours, expeditions and adventures.
want to gain qualifications abroad? become a surf instructor or divemaster, or follow any of the other gap year qualification programmes.
Want to see it all? Consider a round the world trip, we can customise your adventure and give you an excellent start to you backpacking trip, with flights, programmes and arrival packages.
Want to work with wildlife? Our Wild life conservation gap years are just what you need, but be warned, there are no "bunny cuddling" projects here. We are the Xtreme Gap Year company, that means big cats, big sharks and everything with BIG teeth.
Welcome to the start of your adventure...
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This section focusses on gap year advice.
Latest Gap Year News... check out the blog.
Fiji Gap Year programmes Now available.
Gap year travel adventure starts with Xtreme Gap. For best value exciting gap year travel experiences.
Our Australia gap year programmes are incredibly popular. In fact Australia is the most popular gap year destination, welcoming well over 100,000 brits a year. Our gap year programmes are geared towards adventure travel, extreme sports like surfing and diving and working holiday programmes too. New Zealand Gap Year programmes are all about exploring one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Where to begin with our Africa Gap Year programmes. With such a huge and diverse continent Africa has a lot to offer. Many of our programmes are focusses on Adventure Travel. A great place to start many of our trips is on a South Africa gap year. South Africa has much to offer in the extreme sports department too, including the worlds highest bungee jump at a pant wetting 216 metres. A short hop over the boarder can take you on a Namibia gap year where we have several exciting wildlife conservation programmes, and adventure tours. Many of these tours also take in Botswana gap year activities too.
Travelling further north takes you across and up to East Africa, where you will find our Tanzania gap year programmes and neighboring kenya gap year programmes. Rich Safari parks and incredible wildlife dominates these two countries, and if you are feeling particular adventurous, you can climb Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Further down the coast you can take a Malawi gap year and further still a Mozambique gap year. In Mozambique we have a very cool Whale shark conservation project, perfect for people wanting to learn to dive with the worlds largest fish. All the while living in a cool beach house and helping with conservation efforts. These two countries offer amazing beaches both on the shores of lake Malawi and on the tropical African coast line of Mozambique, an untouched paradise of white sand beaches and coconut trees.
Asia the worlds largest continent and so diverse that it is impossible to generalise. Not that you would want to, on your gap year, you have the opportunity to see it all!
The most popular choice is a gap year in South East Asia is a Thailand gap year. This is popular as it contains a hub of very accessible, culturally stunning countries. The most popular out of all is a . For good reason, Thailand offers so much to so many. Great cost of living, amazing food and incredible beaches, with a well developed backpacking Thailand industry.
We have a range of great extreme sports programmes in Thailand, most located in Koh Tao, a paradise island. In Thailand you can go freediving, diving, try some Muay Thai and yoga or even do some rock climbing. Some want to get lots of beach time, our tropical Island life programme, will give you plenty of that on your gap year.
Another undiscovered gem in South East Asia is the Philippines. A Philippines gap year offers some incredible experiences. Like our ultra extreme Filipino martial arts course, or diving with thresher sharks.
In other parts of Asia you can trace sir Edmound Hillarys footsteps on an everest base camp trek on a Nepal gap year
European gap years are tend to be more popular in the US than with people from with in the european union (who tend to go for long haul gap year destinations or round the world trips. We run several exciting gap year spain programmes ased on adventure sports. Admittedly these are not just for people on a gap year, and can be taken by mini gappers and people on their summer or school holidays.
A we run gap year USA programmes in the states and also canada gap year programmes as well as exciting extreme sports and adventure travel south america gap years.
while our programmes in the USA focus on the great outdoors and adventure travel such as our USA road trips.
South America Gap Year programmes tend to be even more active. For example on our gap year Ecuador programmes we have extreme sports programmes like a mountaineering school. While our gap year peru programmes include the legendary inka trail trek.
If you are looking for a Gap year Brazil, then check out our cool Rio de Janeiro programmes, including learning several brazilian martial arts including capoeira!
If it is adventure you are seeking, consider a Venezuela Gap Year with rainforests, lush plateaus and incredible Caribbean beaches awaiting you, Venezuela is also a superb place to learn spanish.
Then there is Argentina. An Argentina Gap Year is perfect for people wanting to get active on horse back and get out in to the wilderness. Patagonia, has some of th most breath taking scenery in the world, and is best accessed on 4 legs! Continuing the horse theme, we also have a Gaucho Polo programme, enabling you to learn polo one of the oldest and most exhilarating extreme sports in the world.
Gap Year
Gap year travel options available are considerable these days, often the real challenge is in trying to decide what and where you want to go. You have all that time to devote to so many gap year pursuits, where do you begin? Well here is a good place to start, you can view our trips by destination (top right of the site in the search bar) or below by need.
Just want to travel? see our range of gap year travel programmes, including tours, expeditions and adventures.
want to gain qualifications abroad? become a surf instructor or divemaster, or follow any of the other gap year qualification programmes.
Want to see it all? Consider a round the world trip, we can customise your adventure and give you an excellent start to you backpacking trip, with flights, programmes and arrival packages.
Want to work with wildlife? Our Wild life conservation gap years are just what you need, but be warned, there are no "bunny cuddling" projects here. We are the Xtreme Gap Year company, that means big cats, big sharks and everything with BIG teeth.
Welcome to the start of your adventure...
SPECIAL OFFERS
Gap Year travel with Xtreme Gap should all be about once in a life time adrenaline experiences, an spending a meaningful year out with out getting into debt. How about this for awesome idea. On the Surf Dude programme you can spend 3 months on your gap year living by incredible Australian beaches in dedicated surf camps perfecting your surf skills and working your way up to surf instructor.
3 whole months, you get to surf everyday, meet loads of people on the Oz East coast route and train with some of the best surfers in Australia. All accommodation and food is included, as is all equipment. This means you only have to concentrate on surfing, chilling and looking insanely cool as you cut back on the waves, attempting to impress a load of hot Swedish chicks that just turned up on an Oz experience bus.
Then once you are qualified you can start working and getting paid to sit on the beach, doing what you love. Life is so tough. By the end of you gap year, you will return home fitter, richer and with a large grin on your face. Gnarly.
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Latest Gap Year News... check out the blog.
Fiji Gap Year programmes Now available.Gap Year Travel Experts
Gap year travel adventure starts with Xtreme Gap. For best value exciting gap year travel experiences.
A World Of Adrenaline Travel Gap Year Options.
Gap years should be fun, and with Xtreme Gap Year they are fun! We call it Adrenaline Travel. It is all about having the time of your life and doing something completely out of the ordinary. Pushing your comfort zone like never before. At Xtreme gap year we make that happen.Whether you are looking to go on an Asia-Gap-Year or Africa Gap Year or spend your gap year in Australia we have it covered.
Exciting Gap Year Destinations
Australia & New Zealand Gap Year
Our Australia gap year programmes are incredibly popular. In fact Australia is the most popular gap year destination, welcoming well over 100,000 brits a year. Our gap year programmes are geared towards adventure travel, extreme sports like surfing and diving and working holiday programmes too. New Zealand Gap Year programmes are all about exploring one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Africa Gap Year
Where to begin with our Africa Gap Year programmes. With such a huge and diverse continent Africa has a lot to offer. Many of our programmes are focusses on Adventure Travel. A great place to start many of our trips is on a South Africa gap year. South Africa has much to offer in the extreme sports department too, including the worlds highest bungee jump at a pant wetting 216 metres. A short hop over the boarder can take you on a Namibia gap year where we have several exciting wildlife conservation programmes, and adventure tours. Many of these tours also take in Botswana gap year activities too.
Travelling further north takes you across and up to East Africa, where you will find our Tanzania gap year programmes and neighboring kenya gap year programmes. Rich Safari parks and incredible wildlife dominates these two countries, and if you are feeling particular adventurous, you can climb Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Further down the coast you can take a Malawi gap year and further still a Mozambique gap year. In Mozambique we have a very cool Whale shark conservation project, perfect for people wanting to learn to dive with the worlds largest fish. All the while living in a cool beach house and helping with conservation efforts. These two countries offer amazing beaches both on the shores of lake Malawi and on the tropical African coast line of Mozambique, an untouched paradise of white sand beaches and coconut trees.
Asia Gap Year
Asia the worlds largest continent and so diverse that it is impossible to generalise. Not that you would want to, on your gap year, you have the opportunity to see it all!
The most popular choice is a gap year in South East Asia is a Thailand gap year. This is popular as it contains a hub of very accessible, culturally stunning countries. The most popular out of all is a . For good reason, Thailand offers so much to so many. Great cost of living, amazing food and incredible beaches, with a well developed backpacking Thailand industry.
We have a range of great extreme sports programmes in Thailand, most located in Koh Tao, a paradise island. In Thailand you can go freediving, diving, try some Muay Thai and yoga or even do some rock climbing. Some want to get lots of beach time, our tropical Island life programme, will give you plenty of that on your gap year.
Another undiscovered gem in South East Asia is the Philippines. A Philippines gap year offers some incredible experiences. Like our ultra extreme Filipino martial arts course, or diving with thresher sharks.
In other parts of Asia you can trace sir Edmound Hillarys footsteps on an everest base camp trek on a Nepal gap year
Gap Year Europe
European gap years are tend to be more popular in the US than with people from with in the european union (who tend to go for long haul gap year destinations or round the world trips. We run several exciting gap year spain programmes ased on adventure sports. Admittedly these are not just for people on a gap year, and can be taken by mini gappers and people on their summer or school holidays.
Gap Years in the Americas
Gap Year in North America
A we run gap year USA programmes in the states and also canada gap year programmes as well as exciting extreme sports and adventure travel south america gap years.
while our programmes in the USA focus on the great outdoors and adventure travel such as our USA road trips.
Gap Year in South America
South America Gap Year programmes tend to be even more active. For example on our gap year Ecuador programmes we have extreme sports programmes like a mountaineering school. While our gap year peru programmes include the legendary inka trail trek.
If you are looking for a Gap year Brazil, then check out our cool Rio de Janeiro programmes, including learning several brazilian martial arts including capoeira!
If it is adventure you are seeking, consider a Venezuela Gap Year with rainforests, lush plateaus and incredible Caribbean beaches awaiting you, Venezuela is also a superb place to learn spanish.
Then there is Argentina. An Argentina Gap Year is perfect for people wanting to get active on horse back and get out in to the wilderness. Patagonia, has some of th most breath taking scenery in the world, and is best accessed on 4 legs! Continuing the horse theme, we also have a Gaucho Polo programme, enabling you to learn polo one of the oldest and most exhilarating extreme sports in the world.
