This site provides all the information you'll need for planning your gap year. Looking to volunteer? Choose from helping in an orphanage in South America, helping with malaria prevention in Africa or building schools in Ghana, to name just a few options. Wanna get paid? Become an au pair, a live in nanny, in Australia or New Zealand.
Thinking Beyond Borders gives students the opportunity the change the world through their actions with a curriculum that involves learning about the environment, medical issues, social issues, agriculture and the economy of communities around the world. Trips include Ecuador, China, India and South Africa.
Outward Bound provides educational wilderness expeditions that teach lessons in leadership with the hope of creating strong, independent students who will take what they have learned and apply it in a positive way toward their own lives. Learn mountaineering in the Colorado Rockies, take a Wilderness Leader course in Washington's Puget Sound or learn canyoneering in the beautiful canyons of Utah. Backpacking, kayaking and sailing trips are also available.
Trip Tracker is compiled by Joy Guest. Is there a vacation or excursion that interests you? E-mail jguest@adn.com or comment online at adn.com/life/travel.
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