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Welcome to a continent of indescribable beauty, diversity and adventure travelling. Discover the exciting extreme sports adventures and incredible scenery on an Africa Gap year with Xtreme Gap Year.
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An Africa gap year offers incredible gap year travel experiences. No other continent on earth gets you this close to nature and the delicate yet ultimately beautiful circle of life. |
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Namibia Wildlife Conservation Experience
Join us on an incredible opportunity to help wildlife conservation in Namibia. This spectacular African wildlife project can use all the help. Based in raw African natural setting you will help taking care for and conserving lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, caracals and (baby) baboons. Real hands on experience with bush walks and education about African Wildlife conservation.
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Whale Shark Diving Mozambique
Scuba diving in Inhambane is amongst the best in the world, with reefs close to every beach, including the world famous Manta Reef and Gallaria. Regular sightings of Giant Manta Rays, Whale Sharks, Turtles and other teeming marine life make this one of the best gap year diving destinations in the world. This is an intensive diving trip in the best place in the world to dive with Whalesharks.
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Cape Town and Garden Route on Steroids
Discover the delights of Cape Town and then hit the adventurous Garden Route. The worlds highest bungee, Elephant sanctuaries, a Wildlife safari, Ostrich riding, zip lining and surfing are just some of the adventures to be had on this all encompassing South Africa trip. And if that is not enough, we have some exiting bolt ons!
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Field Guide Course, South Africa
The ultimate African field guide course set in the Kruger National Park. Want to experience moments when your heart is pumping so loud that you can hear it? The adrenaline surging through your veins as you crouch, trying not to make a sound, just metres away from a full grown African lion? Our field guide course will offer you countless encounters with the big five and an incredible moments of exhilaration at the same time.
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Kruger To Coast Sports
Africa adventure does not come better than this! Safari in the worlds greatest game park the Kruger, then swim with the worlds biggest fish the mighty Whaleshark! Five days and unforgettable adventures in one of the continent’s best wildlife locations – South Africa’s Kruger National Park then a week in the best place in the world to see whale sharks, diving and exploring the coral reefs in the warm blue waters of the Indian ocean. Then you will also discover Swaziland, with its tribal culture on a proper cultural exchange. Get ready for an Africa adventure!
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Whale Shark Conservation Mozambique
The Whale Shark Marine Conservation Project in Mozambique is the ultimate marine conservation project. Swimming with Whale Sharks (Mozambique is one of the best places in the world to see them) you will be involved in data collection, reef monitoring, and humpbacked whale research. Volunteers will also be involved in turtle nest data collection, as well as getting the chance to live an breathe one of Africa's best gap year diving and backpacking destinations.
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Great White Shark Conservation Project
No other conservation project provides a shot of adrenaline like this one. Great White Shark conservation is as important as it is cool! Get hands on with a great white shark conservation project in Gaansbaai South Africa! The standard duration of this course is 21 days.
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Learn to Surf in Cape Town South Africa
Learn to surf in South Africa in one of the worlds best surf spots. Set right on the beach front of Muizenberg close Cape Town we will teach you how to bomb through the waves and look cool. After your daily surf lessons you can chill at the ultimate beach house or go out and explore Capetown! Not a day without a party!
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Cape Town Intro
Cape Town. What a cool city. Want to get under the skin of Cape Town a little then this 6 day Cape Town intro is for you. Staying at our 4* backpackers, you can explore the city on a group, do some cool Xtreme activities, check out table mountain, cape point, see penguins and the sublime Cape Town nightlife.
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Horse Riding and Conservation Mozambique
Imagine untouched white sandy beaches, cliff top views overlooking the ever changing turquoise sea and a genuinely unique and exciting African experience. Experience an ever present spirit of adventure on horse back as you look after a herd of Horses and enjoy some of the best beach riding in the world.
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Mozambique Adventure
Indulge your senses in one of Africa´s most spectacular countries, Mozambique. Here you can dive and snorkel with mantas and Whalesharks, surf some of the best breaks the Indian Ocean has to offer, you can do big game fishing and explore a nearby tropical islands by sea kayak with plenty of chill time on some of the worlds best beaches. This is the Ultimate Mozambique Adventure.
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Cape Town Adrenaline Overload
Cape Town is the most exciting and Xtreme city in Africa. Home to the worlds highest abseil - Table Mountain, the best place in the world to go shark cage diving and a mighty fine drop zone over the cape of good hope, it sure gives Queenstown a run for its money. 5 nights/6 days 100% Adrenaline.
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Wildlife Photography Course
Taking photos of wildlife is not as easy as it looks. You need creativity, technical knowledge and knowledge of the wildlife too. There is a lot of thought and time that goes into producing those great images that we see around us. Join this week long course and learn the basics of becoming a wildlife photographer in South Africa and shoot your picture perfect of Elephants, Leopards, Lions and other magnificent wildlife.
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African Bush Pilot - Microlight training
Imagine the wind in your face as you soar above the wild animals of the Kruger national park in a micro light in South Africa. A stunning backdrop of Wild South African bush will ensure that this is one of the experiences of your life! Our micro light flight school is based at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains in the Limpopo Province. The Centre of the South African Safari industry. You Experience of the REAL Africa will be closer than you think with Hippos and crocodiles roaming freely around the purpose built flying resort.
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South Africa Wildlife Conservation Experience
Get hands on Wildlife conservation experience in one of South Africas award winning game reserve conservation projects. Join other volunteers as you get involved in all aspects of maintaining a game reserve, from tracking Lions and other big 5 to game monitoring and enclosure repair.
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Marine Adventure and Guide Training Course Mozambique
Train as a professional Marine and Adventure Guide in wild and exotic Northern Mozambique. Spend six months training on the Mozambique coastline with an optional six months working as a marine guide at a lodge on Africa’s East coast.
Whether you want to enrich your life by living close to nature and learning more about the natural world or whether you want to start a new life as a marine or adventure guide, this course has it all.
You will come out as a highly competent, passionate and ethical guide operating from a broad knowledge and experience base with your training carried out in some of the most mind-blowing locations possible while you partake in a series of adventures of a lifetime.
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Climb Kilimanjaro Rongai or Marangu Route Tanzania
Climb Kilimanjaro the worlds highest free standing mountain. Kilimanjaro: Rising 5895 metres above the African plains. To Climb Kilimanjaro offers the would be mountain climber the chance to summit a giant, and have an unforgettable experience in the process.
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Mozambique Divemaster programme
Train to become a professional diver and dive with Whalesharks Mozambique is a terrific of the beaten track destination to train to become a Divemaster. You can start at any level and we promise you warm waters, beautiful beaches, fun and of course the diving here is superb. Did you know Mozambique has the highest population of juvenile Whalesharks?
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Ultimate Africa Overland
Africa Overland tour: The Big One Discover Africa 56 days. The big one! Discover the best of Africa during this amazing Africa overlanding adventure. You will go to 9 African countries full of nature, culture, wildlife, wilderness, adventure and excitement.
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Cape Town to Zanzibar Overland Truck Experience
Cape Town to Zanzibar Overland Truck Tour. 33 days, is the perfect version of the longer Cape to Kenya tour for those who want to spend either a lot or no time on Zanzibar. Covering six countries and unforgettable features like the Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls and Lake Malawi, it will ensure that your African vacation is an epic adventure of a lifetime.
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Cape Town to Victoria Falls Overland Adventure
Cape Town To Victoria Falls Overland Tour, one of Africa most spectacular 20 day adventures, taking in national parks, deserts, coasts, wildlife, cultural excursions and a whole heap of adventure on this Africa tour. White water rafting anyone?
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Namibia Overland Adventure
Namibia is one of the most striking destinations in Africa, diverse - rich in tribal and colonial heritage and rich in wildlife. This best of Namibia trip, starts in Cape Town and ends in Windhoek with 12 days of adventure in between.
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Xtreme Tanzania Experience
A Beach and Wildlife Adventure in one one of the most amazing east African Countries Tanzania. Taking in the paradise island of Zanzibar and plenty of game parks, you can tick off the big 5 in the world famous Serengeti and rub shoulders with the Maasai in the Ngorogoro crater. Ends in Nairobi or Arusha if doing the optional Kilimanjaro climb.
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Shark Adventure in Shark Park South Africa
This 5 day Shark Adventure in South Africa is not for the faint harted and will be the thrill of a life time, even for the biggest thrill seeker! A true exciting adventure that will only suit the extremest of the Xtreme Gappers. We take you and our special shark crue 40 km of the South African coast to meet lots of very big marine life! Be ready for game fish and apex predators. No Cage dives... Be thrilled by your first meeting with White Sharks, Duskies, Soupfin Sharks, Mako’s, Raggies, Endemic CatSharks, Marlin and many more!!! Unique tour! Are you ready to join?
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Kitesurf instructor Course, South Africa
This is a one-time super offer! Become Kitesurf instructor in South Africa! You will train for 90 days in Cape Town, the number 1 spot in the world to learn kitesurfing. You do not have to have experience. You stay in a cosy and attractive home on the beach. The Kitesurf instructor certificate is recognized throughout the world. This programme starts in the first week of December 2011, so sign up now!
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Big Cat Conservation Project Namibia
Join an award winning big cat conservation project in a spectacular wildlife friendly location. In this huge wildlife sanctuary you will assist a carnivore conservation project playing an active role in rehabilitation of Leopards, Cheetahs, Lions and other big cats.
It goes with out saying that Africa gap years are unsurpassed when it comes to Wildlife conservation. With Hundreds of thousands of game reserves, both public and private there are plenty of interesting and worthy wildlife conservation projects available and needing your time and efforts to assist in conservation.
We work with a few excellent organisations leading the way with Africa gap year wildlife conservation efforts. From South African Big 5 conservation where you get to work with Africas greatest (and largest) animals, to Namibian wildlife conservation organisations, whose drive and dedication to rehabilitating returning injured and vulnerable animals to the wild is remarkable.
Africa gap year wildlife conservation can never be described as unexciting, but coming face to face with a lion on foot on a field guide course or getting in the water with great white sharks, is on a whole new level. We call it Xtreme Conservation, and we know that if you like genuine excitement and are craving for something completely different, then this could be what you have been waiting for!
If you want to get in the water with an even bigger shark, (we technically a fish) then you should look at the Mozambique Whale Shark conservation project. Mozambique is fortunate to attract these huge creatures in generous numbers, drawn to the coastline by the temperate waters and low impact from human activities. As Africa Gap year projects go, this one is prefect for people who enjoy down time staying in a beach house on one of the most spectacular beaches in Africa.
One of the greatest ways to explore on your Africa gap year is to roll up to those hard to reach places in an overlanding truck. Perfect if you want to do it all and see it all on a budget and with a group of like minded adventurers.
Our range of overlanding truck tours, really can cover the distance, and deliver the trip of a life time. From short flips around South Africa (when we say short it is all relative!) to longer 56 day experiences taking you though all of the main countries in South and East Africa.
Our customers write to us time and again after their Africa Gap Year trips, saying what a life changing experience they had, with cultural interactions with Himba, Zulu and Maasai tribes and witnessing natural spectacles that will leave any hardened Africa gap year traveller speechless. Like the mighty Victoria falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe or the equally beautiful Ngorogoro crater in Tanzania.
It is not just landscapes that will leave you with a pounding heart and sense of new found freedom. Spend a week on the spice islands of Zanzibar and your Africa gap year will be complete. Not only some of the best beaches in Africa, but in the world. These can often be enjoyed on the same trip that takes in the great rift valley and goes in search of the illusive Mountain gorillas in Uganda or Rwanda with a climb up Africa´s highest mountain Kilimanjaro, in the process.
If you want some serious adrenaline activities on your Africa gap year, and lets face it who doesn´t Africa will step up to the mark and deliver some of the most thrilling experiences you could wish for.
Where do you begin? Perhaps with the list of superlatives, the biggest bungee jump in the world (Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa) at 216 metres, although the equally impressive Victoria falls bungee is no slouch either. The worlds largest abseil right of table mountain in Cape Town, will have you week at the knees when you stand at the top, and is often a great start to any Africa Gap year with adrenaline in mind. Then of course we have skydiving, shark cage diving, Tiger Shark diving, Microlighting, sand boarding, Quad safaris, White water rafting... You get the point I am sure, an Africa gap year is any thing but tame.
Your ultimate Africa gap year starts with Xtreme Gap. If you want an exciting gap year Africa, and be sure that you are getting best value read on.
Being experts in Africa gap year programmes, we are ready to offer assistance on all of your gap year in Africa queries.
An Africa gap year many advantages: not only is it a gorgeous continent, the Africa gap year adventures on offer are as diverse as they are exciting. In fact Africa has it all:Kite surfing, Surfing, Safaris, Overland exploration, Wildlife conservation, flying diving, shark cage diving and backpacking to name a small few.
