For many the opportunity to work with people less fortunate or to learn new skills they may not get another chance to learn in a gap year, is something they just cannot pass up. One very popular option for your gap years abroad is to spend them helping out with sports, gap year sports offer a wide variation of things to do and learn. How do you fancy hitting the surf in Australia or playing volley ball in South America or learning a martial art in Asia?.
Here are the top 5 experiences of Gap Years Abroad
1) South America – A historic and beautiful area of the world with friendly locals. Particularly popular with those who are spending gap years abroad for it’s fantastic and wide variation in marine life that it holds. South America Boasts some of the worlds top diving schools, newbies can learn from scratch and experienced divers can learn to tutor gap year sports.
2) China – experience the age and beauty of such a historical country while spending time on your gap years abroad learning the ancient traditions and art of Kung Fu from those who practice and live the life of the ancient kung fu masters.
3) South Africa – has much to offer you on your gap years abroad especially with Gap Year Sports. Working with and teaching locals can be very fulfilling whether this is for Football, Rugby or perhaps surfing of some of the most fantastic surf you will find anywhere. From a personal reward point of view, you could look at teaching surfing on your gap year abroad, this is a sport some of these children never imagined they would ever be able to try.
4) Canada – Popular with the ever popular extreme sports people offering some of the best skiing and snow boarding in the world. As with many of the places we talk about, this ideal for people of all skill levels right from beginners through to pro’s. Gap years abroad in Canada has a lot to offer you for your gap year sports.
5) Australia – you couldn’t mention gap years abroad without talking about Australia one of the most popular destinations for gap years abroad and offering a wide range of gap year sports. The most popular gap year sports are water sports, this is mainly down to the excellent weather Australia is blessed with, the long hot summers, an English speaking language make it a fav amongst us Brits.
This is a list of some of the most popular and unusual destinations for taking gap years abroad and in particular there are many opportunities for gap year sports. And if gap year sports are not really your thing then maybe you could look at spending your gap years abroad doing volunteer work.