Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

Getting stuck in...

Day One: Gabby arrives early to meet Alix and Richard in Nairobi, then take's a taxi to a backpackers lodge twenty minutes from the airport to await the arrival of Rosa later that night.

Day Two: We have a long wait in the airport café for the rest of the team to fly in, but use the time to get to know each other better and share our excitement at finally being in Africa! Once the team is assembled we take a bumpy bus ride from Nairobi to Mtito-Andei, which involved loud music and the African landscape flitting past our windows. We observe the sugar cane fields the ram shackled roadside stalls and the crazy overtaking by the massive lorries.

More from the intrepid explorers

Having finished trekking in the Colca Canyon, we headed back to Arequipa where in order to recover from the strain of the trek dinner took place at ZigZag, where we compensated for the lack of meat consumed over the last four days by each devouring steaks. Drinks afterwards lead us inevitably to "deja vu" where the aces and pains of the trek were danced away.

Latest news from the field.

The whole of the team were exhausted after the Apolobamba trek and ready for some time to relax. However our fearless leaders had something else in mind for us! After a 6 part transit day into Peru we felt very much immersed in the expedition phase of our travels. We entered Peru in the best possible fashion driving along side Lake Titicaca.

Congratulations go to Danya Bush, Josh Connon and David Benson - members of the Swaziland GAP team out in Mozambique at the moment who have just completed and passed their PADI Open Water Dive courses and are now qualified divers! The team are currently making their way back down from Tofo beach to Maputo before heading off for some adrenaline-filled activities in Sabie, South Africa.

Update from the team to follow soon!

Now they're coming thick and fast, keep it up guys!

Our next blog entry finds us on a long bus from Ambue Ari to La Paz, having finished the project phase of our trip. It was strange to leave the now familiar confines of the rainforest and be thrown headlong into the ways of city life, although many of us were craving a warm shower and a good feed. Having made it through the pitches of a man attempting to sell us some sort of anti-parasite powder, we arrived in La Paz at around 9am to greet Rob, our leader for the expedition phase. After a quick pep talk about what we were to expect in the next few weeks, we went out to lunch and gorged ourselves on a delicious curry, something we had seen hide nor hair of in all our travels. That evening, after getting kitted out for the next few days we had a Mexican to utterly finish off our spice free taste buds and then took an early night.