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In recent years, gap year travel has ceased to be the exclusive domain of pre-university teens and graduates, and has become increasingly popular with career breakers and mature travellers. Gap Year for Grown Ups have been at the forefront of providing travel that combines adventure with something more worthwhile and challenging.
The company maintain the philosophy that new and enriching globetrotting experiences should be open to everyone, and are proud to announce a new set of trips which embody this philosophy in alternative travel hotspot; Vietnam.
Known for its impressive scenic beauty, temples, fascinating history, and mountainous landscapes, Vietnam has a lot to offer travellers looking for a unique and life-changing experience. A whole host of new volunteer projects from Gap Year for Grown Ups offer travellers the chance to work within the local community as well as seeing the incredible sights. Working with underprivileged children in hospitals, orphanages and youth centres, volunteers can play an essential role in improving the standard of life and the prospects of local children.
Volunteer work in the Pagoda Orphanage and the Children’s Hospital is largely centred on the children’s happiness and well-being. The children rarely receive the love and attention they badly need and the project is the ideal opportunity for creative volunteers to find new ways of bringing smiles to their faces through songs, games and activities. Travellers who prefer think on their feet and who work well with flexible timescales will find these projects to be both challenging and very rewarding.
Those looking to lend more of an educational hand, will find themselves well placed at the Youth House or the Welfare and Vocation Centre, where volunteers will be able to mix fun activities with an involvement in lessons in English, maths and IT, as well as helping with vocational training in anything from sewing to fixing motorbikes! These fantastic new trips not only give participants an unequalled insight into the local community, they also offer the chance to spend spare time exploring sights and sounds of Vietnam.
Travellers looking for a more adventurous route may be interested in the last of the new trips from Gap Year for Grown Ups; the Best of Vietnam Tour. This trip truly lives up to its name, as it takes explorers on a whirlwind tour across Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. There will be plenty of time to take in the best of Vietnam’s many famous sights including; Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Mekong Delta, the Marble Mountains, Halong Bay and the historic city of Hanoi. The adventure hungry will be able to ride the waves, bathe in waterfalls, trek in mountains and feed their appetites for culture with a variety of trips to historic temples, monuments and monasteries.
Mature travellers who would like to take advantage of these opportunities can find a treasure trove of information by visiting http://www.gapyearforgrownups.co.uk/
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