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Independent Travel - Africa and Asia Venture

Independent Travel

Photograph of AV volunteers at the Taj Mahal - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in India4 weeks of independent travel time (optional)

As your project comes to an end AV offers you the chance to stay on for an additional 4 weeks of independent travel time, to ensure a good balance of volunteer work and travel. India is a vast country with lots of exciting and beautiful places to visit beyond the Darjeeling district, which you won't have a chance to see on your weekends alone. From our experience travelling is often when problems occur, from lost passports to getting ill – that’s why we offer this extra travel time to ensure that you experience as much as possible but with the continued 24/7 support from us whilst you do so.

Photograph of AV volunteers doing a trek - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in IndiaDifferent travel options India AVs have done in the past include: trekking to Kanchenjunga base camp, watching the dawn on the Ganges at the holy city of Varanasi; visiting Rishikesh, where the Beatles meditated (and there is said to be good rafting nearby); seeing a Bengal tiger in the wild; visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar, one of the many carved temples - at Mahabelipuram, Khajurao, Ellora; floating down the backwaters of Kerala on a houseboat; being an extra in a Bollywood movie; basking on a beach in Goa; riding an elephant up the path to a castle in Jaipur, the ‘Pink City'; going on a camel trek in the desert at Jaisalmer, spending the night in the desert under the stars and of course visiting the Taj Mahal! Tendup will be on hand before you start your travels to advise you on the Indian Railway Network, the best routes to get around and how to do so safely!

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