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Gap Year South Africa

Gap Year South Africa Travel Advice

Gap Year South Africa: There is nowhere on earth quite like South Africa, blessed for a verity of reasons, all of which are incredibly appealing to any traveller heading out on a South Africa Gap Year.

South Africa is a huge country, providing a lot of diversity and interesting attractions in both it geography and activities.

In a nutshell Gap Year South Africa programs can fall into the following categories: Wildlife Conservation Adrenaline Sports Travel Backpacking/ Overlanding Tours Surfing Diving and Watersports Volunteering

Travel in South Africa

Often people like to combine more than one of the above gap year options when travelling to South Africa on their gap year. A great way to do this is with the Xtreme Gap Adrenaline tour, this is a flexible backpacker bus pass (Baz Bus) combining some exciting activities along the way, with most people starting in either Johannesburg or Cape Town.

An important thing to remember when planning your gap year: South Africa is a huge country with many thousands of miles from one end of the country to the other. So it is important to allow for plenty of time to see and do it all.  Not that the distances will be a problem, with so much to see and do along the way, there will never be a dull moment.

If you are on a really tight schedule, you may want to fly into Johannesburg and then up to the North of the country to somewhere like Hoedspruit, this will give you quick and easy access to the Kruger and Blyde Canyon, then you can head down through the country to see the rest ending up in Cape Town. Car hire is readily available in South Africa, although it must be said that this is not a particularly cheap option, a great way to get around and see more of the country is a comfortable vehicle is to book and overlanding tour like the ones featured on this site.




We are specialists in providing South Africa gap year programmes, we are on hand to give advice with all of your Gap Year South Africa questions .

A Gap Year in South Africa is loaded with  adrenaline travel opportunities.  Many people on an Africa gap year head to South Africa drawn by the exciting activities and mind blowing wildlife on offer. South Africa is home to the worlds highest bungee jump, Great White Shark Cage diving, and the Xtreme Gap favourite Tiger shark diving. The surfing in South Afirca is particularly good as well.

A great place to go backpacking South Africa offers cheap accessible travel opportunities.


A gap year south africa is also easily combined with a Namibia gap year or a botswana gap year.