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Independent Travel - Africa and Asia Venture

Independent Travel

Photograph of AV doing a bungee jump - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in Tanzania4 weeks of independent travel time

As your project comes to an end it is not quite time to say goodbye… AV includes approximately four weeks of independent travel at the end of the venture, to ensure a good balance of volunteering and adventure. Tanzania and other parts of East Africa have lots of exciting and beautiful places to explore which you won’t get a chance to do in your weekends or half term alone. Many AVs want to stay on and travel but don’t know if others on the project will too. Therefore we include this extra time to ensure that you experience as much as possible and know that you will have people to travel with. From our experience, travelling is often when problems occur, from lost passports to getting ill – that’s why we have the motto, ‘Once an AV, always an AV’ – we will still be there to help you, even though your project has finished.

Photograph of AV's trekking Mount Kilimanjaro - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in TanzaniaDifferent travel options Tanzania AVs have done in the past include: travelling down to Zambia to visit the famous Victoria Falls at Livingstone; going on a wildlife safari; trekking Mount Kenya or Mount Kilimanjaro; rafting the source of the Nile in Uganda or bungee jumping over it; gorilla trekking in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest or visiting the beautiful beaches of Kenya or Zanzibar where lots of water sports activities or sunbathing time awaits! You will need to finish in Nairobi for your return flight home but until then it’s up to you. The only rule is that you don’t travel by yourself.

If 4 weeks isn’t enough and you are staying on a bit longer in Africa, don’t worry because “Once an AV, always an AV!” We can store luggage for you in Nairobi and help out if you have difficulties.

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