Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

For all you classical music lovers - and supporters of the Joshua Orphan Care Trust - there will be a fundraising concert taking place at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Centre, St Hilda's College, Oxford on 23rd March 2010...

Floating through the Okavango Delta in dug out canoes, listening to lions roaring and hippos honking in the distance is undoubtably one of the highlights for Quest teams takign part in the Southern Africa Expedition. A new book, "Okavango Delta: Floods of Life" is being published in March this year for World Wetland's Day and provides a fascinating insight into this beautiful region...

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft says that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away.  The disease is the biggest single killer the world has ever seen and over 1 million people die from the disease each year.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent billions of dollars to come up with an answer to malaria and Mr. Gates told the BBC today that a vaccine was in its last trial phase and could be available in 3 years.  He also added that a fully effective vaccine is 5 – 10 years away.

Paul Deaville is our latest sign up for the Brighton Marathon taking place on the 18th April.  He joins Scott, Tom and Josh and has a target of £2000 to sponsor 5 children in Malawi through secondary school.

Mt. Meru lies just outside the city of Arusha in Tanzania.  It is the third largest mountain in Sub saharan Africa (after Mt. Kenya and Kilimanjaro) and is an active stratovolcano.  The climb takes just 3 days to the summit at 4562.13m over steep rocky terrain.  The views of the ash crater and Kilimanjaro to the east are spectacular.  It is necessary for groups to be accompanied by an armed Ranger due to the buffalo that freely range Arusha National Park.

Ascending via the worlds 3rd highest cliff face