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Learn New Skills

Use your time abroad to learn new skills that you can make use of when you get home, mostly by showing it off to all your friends and family...


Learn New Skills Abroad

Wow your siblings with your Latin dancing; bring tears to your mum’s eyes with your professional photographs and inspire your friends with tales of deep-sea adventures. The new skills that you can learn abroad are endless, check them out below!
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Australia Outback Ranch

Experience the great outdoors by learning the skills to work on an Australian outback farm. You’ll earn money doing anything from cattle mustering to fruit picking, making it an enjoyable way of funding more travelling.
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China paid teaching with TEFL

Get your TEFL certificate and work as a professional, paid English teacher in China. You’ll be introduced to the culture, be taught basic Mandarin and have time to travel in the school holidays.

 
All OK underwater

Gain a basic diving qualification that allows you to dive all over the world. The course combines theory, dives and a three-day trip around the Great Barrier Reef. Look out for turtles, coral, tropical fish and more!

 
USA ranch volunteers

Live ranch life to the full with activities such as horse riding, cattle gathering, branding, trail riding and ranch chores. Campfires and scenery straight from the big screen make it perfect for horse-loving travellers!

 
Costa Rica Turtle Surf

The perfect combination of sport and conservation. Help look after turtle eggs and the baby turtles - not difficult when they’re so sweet! Then learn to surf or improve your technique at a nearby beach.

 
Sea Turtle

Embark on a life changing marine odyssey and feast your eyes on rare and beautiful species as you travel from the shores of Mozambique to coast of Costa Rica. Mozambique – Sri Lanka – Peru – Costa Rica

 
Fiji Dive Culture Conservation

Learn or improve your scuba diving, live with a local family, help build a marine protected area and enjoy the country’s amazing beaches in a 6-week programme of activities that make for the perfect Fijian experience.

 
Surf

Spend an action packed two weeks in this beautiful country. You will begin by travelling to the coast, learning to surf with qualified instructors and spend time in the captial, San Jose. You will also have awesome days out white water rafting, trekking to volcanoes, experiencing canopy tours and visiting colonial cities. All with a great group of people!

 
Round the World Gap Year

Make your round the world trip one to remember, visit the world’s most incredible countries including India, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the USA on a intrepid voyage of cultural and adventurous discovery! India – Thailand - Australia – New Zealand – Fiji – USA

 
Fiji Scuba Diving Courses

Fiji is an unmatched tropical paradise, with the scuba opportunities there equally unique. We have different scuba course options for you to choose from, depending upon your current diving experience and how far you wish to progress.

 
Israel Archaeological Experience

Dig for archaeological treasures in Jerusalem and uncover more of its fascinating history. You’ll be digging, sifting and recording what you find, with experts on hand at all times. You could unearth the next Dead Sea scrolls…

 
Thailand Scuba Diving Courses

Choose a diving programme to suit you and learn or hone your skills in Thailand’s beautiful blue waters. Take the instructor programme and gain the necessary qualifications to work in a scuba diving centre.

 
Teach Abroad with TEFL

Internationally recognised all over the world, the online TEFL courses will enable you to teach and travel wherever you want, the only question is deciding where you want to teach!

 
Mozambique Whale Shark Conservation

Get up close and personal with whale sharks – they eat plankton, not humans! Learn to dive in tropical waters and collect data on whale sharks, coral reefs and turtles.

 
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Ecuador Experience

Experience Ecuador through Spanish lessons, cooking classes, trips around Quito, community and conservation projects in the Andes and the Amazon, horseback rides, sunbathing on the beaches, surfing, scuba diving, a night forest walk and lots more!

 
Costa Rica Surfing Course

Ride some of the warmest waves in the world, against a backdrop of beautiful sand and a deep blue sky. Suitable for beginners and amateurs, the course includes intensive coaching and unlimited use of a board.

 
Australia Jackaroo Jillaroo School

Riders of all abilities are taught to farm the Australian way with lessons in Jackaroo and Jillaroo. Learn about cattle mustering, horse shoeing and lassoing before sitting down to a camp fire at night.
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South Africa Dive Courses

Learn to Scuba dive at one of the best locations in the world, South Africa where you can swim with amazing marine life, including dolphins and seals. Whether you’re a beginner and just want to learn the basics or you’re thinking of starting a career in the industry, we have the course available to you!

 
Enjoying the surf

Learn to ride the waves at the surfing Mecca of South Africa (Jeffrey’s Bay) with some of the world’s top instructors. This course is open to complete beginners as well as those wanting to improve there skills and is endorsed by the South African Surf Association.

 
Beach Gallop

Learn or improve your horse riding skills on a country farm, surrounded by pine trees. Gallop along a deserted beach, make friends with the sheep and end the days with a barbecue.

 
Australia Diving Courses

A ten-week course in Australia’s Byron Bay that allows total beginners to achieve internationally recognised diving qualifications. Among the bay’s many attractions are leopard sharks, manta rays and turtles.

 
Surf Experience

Travel the east coast of Australia, learning to ride the waves and living the surfing lifestyle – that means barbies, parties and seeing relaxing by the beach. A highlight of any gap year!

 
Kruger to Coast Sports Adventure

Sample some of Africa’s exhilarating highlights. Camp in Kruger National Park with the big five, do a volunteer placement in Swaziland and learn to scuba dive in Mozambique. An adventure with a bit of everything!

 
Scuba Diving Videography Thailand

Dive around Koh Tao, develop your media skills and earn money! You’ll be taught to record, edit and produce DVDs of the dive centre’s customers, and then to sell them to the customers.

 
Australia Learn to Sail

A real hands-on experience on board a yacht. Learn or improve your sailing skills on land before living as part of a crew as you cruise around the Whitsunday Islands, with opportunities to snorkel and swim, too.

 
See the best of Costa Rica

An action-packed, adrenaline-pumping holiday that will have you kite surfing, learning Spanish, white water rafting, cooking traditional dishes, surfing, dancing the Latino way and more – all amid seriously spectacular scenery!

 
Australia Surf and Sun

A blockbuster of a trip that brings together a week of fun activities in Sydney, five days of surfing lessons and a bus pass so you can create your own route to Cairns.

 
Australia Tall Ship Sailing

A never-to-be forgotten cruise on a tall ship around the Great Barrier Reef, with the chance to snorkel, swim and discover the area. Learn the basics of sailing or just relax and soak up the sun.

 
Ski Group in Lake Louise

This 11 or 12 week programme gives you the chance to gain your Level 1 and 2 instructor qualifications and teach at an intermediate level. You can also opt for an additional week's skiing to complete your programme.

 
Skiing at Lake Louise

Transform your skiing skills through our instructor training programme in Lake Louise. This short course option offers you the chance to work as an instructor after gaining a recognised qualification.

 
South Africa Conservation and Photography

Put your love of photography to good use on a World Heritage Site. Photograph elephants, rhinos and many other creatures for a database, and possibly magazines. You’ll also teach local children about their surroundings.

 
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