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India

Incredible India!

This extraordinary country has incredible diversity, from the towering silence of snowbound peaks to the lap of waves on coral shores via the cacophony of noisy, frantic cities.

Hot deserts, cold deserts, fertile flood plains, tea plantation covered hills, thousands of different peoples, languages, ancient cultures and religions. New wealth but also staggering poverty, both in the cities and in the countryside, where we work in the Darjeeling hills.

Gap Year Travel

Both our gap years to India are followed by an 8-day safari in Sikkim, in the mountain areas close to the Tibet border, or trekking in the approaches to Kanchenjunga and rafting. Then you have three weeks to see as much of India as you can - perhaps to visit the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, see a Snow Leopard in Ladakh or talk with the street children in Delhi. Your return flight will be from Delhi (you will fly out from UK to Calcutta).

The AV Experience offers the following 2 Gap Year choices to India:

Lepchas - Living in the Lepcha Community

We work with the Indigenous Lepcha Association to help their fight to retain their ancient culture.

You live in a Lepcha village at around 1500 - 2000m, help with subsistence farming tiny terraced fields of rice, ginger and spices. You teach English in the village culture centre and in tiny local schools for 3 months, living with a Lepcha family.
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Darjeeling - Teaching English in the Tea Plantations

3 months among the tea plantations of the Darjeeling hills are small towns where you teach English in small schools. The people, children and schools of this area are almost all Nepali and it is among them that you will live and work, teaching English among some of the friendliest people on earth. You live either with one other volunteer with a Nepali family or share a flat with about 5 other gap year volunteers.
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