Expedition Africa - Africa Expedition

Expedition Africa - Tanzania adventure on an Africa expedition

Tanzania is undoubtedly one of the most exciting countries in which to travel on an expedition to Africa. If viewing the wildlife is top of your list of things to do on an Africa expedition then Tanzania is home to some of the continent's best game reserves - Ruaha, the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park. Real Gap's Tanzania Expedition has been carefully put together to provide an adventurous expedition to Africa combining Tanzania's major places of interest with other travel more ‘off the beaten track.' One of the most unique and privileged experiences included in this Africa expedition is a five-week stay with a Tanzanian Maasai community in a stunning location beneath Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest mountain). Living with the Maasai tribe on the expedition to Africa is a mutually beneficial experience for both parties - the visiting travellers learn all about the Maasai way of life - cooking, clothes, culture, traditional crafts, etc - and the Maasai themselves receive English lessons. Other highlights of Real Gap's Tanzanian expedition Africa, include a four-day safari in Ruaha, a visit to Ngorongoro, travel to the exotic Indian Ocean spice island of Zanzibar on a traditional Dhow boat and lessons in Swahili and Maasai. The idyllic base-camp setting for this Africa expedition is Mbezi Beach, 8 miles or so from Tanzania's bustling capital city Dar es Salaam. The last 4 weeks of this comprehensive expedition to Africa are spent ‘giving something back' by working on a volunteer project in exciting Dar es Salaam, either helping out at a local school and orphanage - a rewarding climax to an incredible gap year expedition to Africa!

Expedition Africa - Wildlife Volunteer on an Africa expedition

For many travellers taking a gap year or career break, the number one priority for an expedition to Africa is to spend quality time exploring the continent's incredible wildlife. A great way to take this interest one step further on an expedition to Africa is by getting involved with a worthwhile animal conservation project. Real Gap has loads of wildlife conservation programmes to choose from and it's easy to tailor-make your own Africa expedition by combining one or several of these programmes together with some travel (just speak to one of Real Gap's team of expert travel advisers for advice on how to go about this). Just some of the wildlife conservation projects you could get involved with on an expedition to Africa include…Working with the desert elephants of Namibia, helping out with a lion breeding project at Victoria Falls and rehabilitating injured or orphaned monkeys in South Africa on an Africa expedition.

Expedition Africa - Community Volunteer

If you would like to do more to help impoverished people or communities on an expedition to Africa then Real Gap has numerous suitable programmes in this field too. As with our wildlife programmes it's easy to tailor-make your own gap year expeditions abroad by ‘building' your travel around a specific volunteer project.

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