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South Africa Gap Year

Your ultimate Gap Year South Africa commences with Xtreme Gap.If you are looking for an exciting South Africa gap year, and be certain that you are getting great value check out our programmes .

Gap Year South Africa. We are specialists in providing Gap Year South Africa programmes and gap year Africa programmes, from Wildlife Conservation, Sports and backpacking / Gap Year Travel.

South Africa Gap Year A gap year in South Africa is a popular choice for gap year takers, partly because backpacking in South Africa is easy and cheap and the range of gap year South Africa programmes means there is something for everyone. Adventure travel, Extreme sports and wildlife conservation and Adrenaline Travel being some of our most popular options.

Extreme Sports on a Gap Year South Africa

South Africa is fast establishing itself as one of the worlds premier extreme sports destinations, some of the activities on offer include:

Surfing, Kite Surfing, Diving and Shark Diving, Skydiving, Abseiling (the worlds highest in fact), and of course bloukrans - the worlds highest bungee jump.

Most of these sports can be attempted on our 6 day Cape Town intro, but we can also tailor extreme sports packages that last longer as well.

If you are into your surfing, you are in for a treat with the Endless Summer Surfari and fantastic learn to surf programmes in South Africa.

South Africa is a huge country, with lots to see and do there, and it geographically it is stunning. Dramatic mountain ranges, lush African Savannah's, game parks that leave others standing and a difficult political history with a fascinating and unbelievable freedom struggle. Due to the size of the country your trip will require some planning, after all to see it all you will need to cover several thousand miles. If this sounds daunting it needn´t be, there are a couple of excellent options to get you round the whole country, and you will experience plenty enroute.

One great way of seeing the country on a South Africa gap year is to take The South Africa Overland Tour, which will take care of all the logistics, leaving you time to enjoy sitting back and taking in the experience.

Another great tip is to take in the Kruger National part and see it from above by doing some micro lighting.