Gap Year In Australia

Planning your gap year in Australia depends on your goals. Do you want to just travel on your gap year Australia, or if you want to be work as well on your gap year in Australia.

Most people choose to work down under and secure a working holiday visa for their gap year in Australia. The working holiday visa is valid for a year and enables you to undertake casual work for one year. After the year is up you can extend this to 2 years if you under take a couple of months agricultural work on your gap year in Australia).

Then next important step for your Australia gap year is to plan your arrival. One of the most important parts of any gap year in Australia and can also be the most stressful. It is important to get it right as your first couple of weeks on your gap year in Australia sets the tone for the rest of the year.

You have lots to do in the first few days on your gap year in Australia, with finding suitable longer term accommodation, or looking for a job, meeting new people and making good friends and acclimatising to your new life on your gap year in Australia.

Taking the hassle out of your arrival we have an a range of great arrival packages for you, in all main ports of entry making your first week hassle free.

We can also provide a range of work and play down under packages, making finding a work on your gap year in Australia much easier and takes all the administration and hassle out of securing your working holiday visa, medical care and tax numbers.

Staying in hostels, like the ones in our Australia arrival packages can help you locate work on your gap year in Australia far quicker than staying in hotels: casual work is always posted on notice boards in reception and you easily meet people who can help with advice for work going around. Many people find jobs on their gap year in Australia to top up their travelling budgets on a round the world trip

Surfing on your gap year in Australia

If you really take to it why not spend 12 weeks being a proper Australia surfer dude? Perhaps you want to combine both making money and surfing on your Australia gap year Australia surf instructor programme could be for you.

Diving on your gap year in Australia

If you want to get about and explore on your gap year in Australia, their are lots of adventure travel options open to you. The different options are dependent upon your style of travel and budget. Many like to go solo on their gap year in Australia, or in a small groups. Arranging the logistics of travel on your gap year in Australia does not have to be expensive. We can assist you with the issue of Oz experience bus tickets, a hop on hop off backpacker bus network (it is cheaper to book through us than go direct). Oz Experience is an ideal solution for travel during your gap year in Australia as they are inexpensive and flexible.We can also tailor open itineraries that include open ended tickets for the main backpacker attractions, like Fraser island 4x4s and Whitsunday cruises: 2 of the most popular backpacker activities on a gap year in Australia. These can get be so popular that it is advisable to book well in advance through us, and not wait until you get out there, as there can be long waiting lists to do these activities. This can be irritating, but once you do them you will understand why, the settings are spectacular.

Some like to buy a cheapo car or campervan and drive around on their gap year in Australia. this can be fun but also very risky: While many are lured into the attraction of regaining their money at the end of the trip when they sell the car, the reality is old cars need maintenance, insurance and breakdown cover, this is especially true in a harsh country like Australia. It is not a great idea to be stranded in the outback either, and if your car dies, so does the money you have invested in it. Other find that they do not allow enough time to sell the car at the end, or worse no one wants to buy it, and then they loose all their money invested in it as well (car in Australia are actually not that cheap).

We would recommend rental as a better option, a camper or wicked campers, this is can be a fun way to travel on your gap year in Australia, but not a sociable as travelling on a group tour.

Australia gap year tours are a great way to see the country when you have a short amount of time to spend in Oz, particularly if you are on a round the world ticket and you don't want to spend your entire gap year in Australia, will take you to many exciting destinations through out Australia, and at the same time you will meet lots of like minded people and cover the necessary distances to get around.

On this site you can see all of our gap year in Australia group travel options.

By far the most popular gap year in Australia option is touring the east coast. Typically itineraries include visiting Byron Bay (surfing), Fraser island (off roading), Byron Bay, , Brisbane, Surfers Paradise, the Whitsundays Island and Cairns for cape tribulation and the great barrier reef.

Cairns, Brisbane and Mission Beach has 3 of Australias best drop zones: want to skydive on your gap year in Australia then these are the places to do it. Then you have Fraser island a huge sand island with crystal clear fresh water lakes, hundreds of miles of beach and dingos! This is the ultimate in off roading jump in and self drive a 4x4 and hit the sand ahighlight of any gap year in Australia.

Western Australia is stunningly beautiful. Those in the know say this is what Australia is all about. Most people enter Perth, the only city in Australia where you can see a sunset into the ocean. With the amazingly incredible beaches and the equally beautiful Ningaloo reef a gap year in western Australia is breath taking. The 21 day Darwin to Perth tour will take you from Northern Australia to the west coast city Perth, covering some of the most geographically stunning areas of Western Australia and the continent as a whole along the way.

jobs in western Australia can be different to the east coast. Working in mines and diving for pearls a are not uncommon for the more adventurous gapper on a western Australia gap year!

Travelling into the outback on your gap year in Australia

The Northern Territories on your Australia gap year.

One of the highlights of an Aussie gap year is seeing the North of the country. Kakadu national park (check it out with our 4 day 4wd safari). One of the most spectacular natural settings you get to play crocodile Dundee and can experience ancient aboriginal rock art, if you are looking for culture on your gap year in Australia, then this is where you will find it!