 World Expedition
One of the most exciting and extreme travel options possible for a gap year is a world expedition. Going on a world expedition is all about travelling the world, seeing some of the iconic sights you have always dreamed about visiting and also experiencing another side to life in the countries you visit off the usual ‘beaten track.' One of the best ways to immerse yourself in local culture on a world expedition is by getting involved with a worthwhile volunteer project whilst you are away. Volunteering on a world expedition gives you the chance to ‘give something back' to the countries you visit on world expedition whilst at the same time learning all about what life is really like there from the people you meet on a daily basis.
Organising a world expedition sounds like a complicated and expensive business but you would be surprised how easy it is. Once you have put together a rough itinerary of the places you want to visit on a world expedition you can then discuss it with one of Real Gap's team of expert travel advisers. The Real Gap Team will be able to help you out with organising a round the world plane ticket for your world expedition. A round the world plane ticket is easy to use and often costs little more than a standard return ticket to Australia (for more detailed advice on buying a ticket for a round the world gap year for your world expedition click on the ‘Round the World' section on the Real Gap website).
As well as organising plane travel for your world expedition you will obviously also need to sort out all of your ground travel and activities. It is possible to tailor-make your own individual world expedition by combining together several of Real Gap's programmes to create one amazing world itinerary. Putting your world expedition together this way can be done with literally any of Real Gap's superb and diverse range of gap programmes. However for the more intrepid traveller who's seeking a particularly challenging and adventurous world expedition the ‘Real Gap Year Expedition Abroad' are ideal.
The ‘Expeditions Abroad' programmes have been carefully put together to create a ‘real' travel experience by combining the ‘must see' places of each country with a rewarding volunteer placement as well as other fascinating travel in places most other backpackers don't get to. If you really want to get travel off the beaten track on a world expedition then look no further than these Real Gap programmes.
If you choose India as one of your stopovers on a world expedition you can experience an incredible range of unique experiences. For example on a world expedition in India you could go on a tiger safari at Ranthambore, go on the amazing six day ‘Singalila Ridge' trek through the Himalayas with stunning views across to Everest and ride by elephant to the beautiful Amber Fort at Jaipur. The volunteer element on a world expedition to India is equally unique - spending eight weeks living in a village just outside Darjeeling teaching English and becoming a real member of the village community.
If you are planning to visit Africa on a world expedition then Tanzania is as good a place as anywhere. If you want to see wildlife on your world expedition Tanzania has some of the continent's best game reserves (including the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park). On a world expedition to Tanzania you can even live with a Maasai tribe for five weeks in an idyllic setting close to Kilimanjaro.
Real Gap has ‘World Expedition' programmes in three South American countries - Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Canoe through pristine virgin Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, stay with a Quechua Indian family in Peru and trek to the top of the ‘Lost World' Roraima Mountain in Venezuela…All of these things, and much more, are possible on a world expedition to South America.
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