In a break from our traditional approach to The Knowledge, today we begin a brand new feature in which we ask our London HQ staff to write a travel bucket list of five items. Kicking us off this week is Ben, our Online Marketing Manager.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:40PM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, Travel, backpacking, bucket list, frontier, travel advice | in The Knowledge 
"Oahu is stunning, and despite all the tourist resorts, it still maintains areas of outstanding natural beauty. The island is best known for its capital Honolulu, touristy Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head (an extinct volcanic crater and State Park)."
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 11:53AM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, advice, frontier, gap travel, hawaii, internship, islands, london hq, natalie gardener, pacific, travel advice, what to pack | in The Knowledge "Our camp was based right in the middle of the bush - so waking up to lion roars, baboons squabbling and impala prancing around became the norm very quickly. I also got a little too friendly with ‘peanut bugs’ and regularly woke up with them in my sleeping bag and on my pillow!"
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 12:16PM | 1 Comment | tagged Gap year, Limpopo Province, elelephants, frontier, gap year advice, gap years, ggap year travel, lion, rhinos, slr, south africa, travel abroad | in The Knowledge 
"On one of the days we decided it would be a cracking idea to rent out a pedalo but we didn’t want to just potter down the river; no, like true intrepid pedalo explorers, we set our maritime sights high: intending to cross the open water between islands so that we could glide on past the royal palace in pedalotastic style."
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:05PM | Post a Comment | tagged Travel, travel advice, what to pack | in The Knowledge 
"With a keen interest in water sports, all of my recent wind-fuelled overseas escapades have involved plenty of excess luggage fees, ridiculously large bags and lots of sweaty, frustrating attempts at stuffing all of my gear into the back of vehicles clearly not designed to bear the load."
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:14AM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, adventure sports, adventure travel, gap travel, gap year travel, kitesurfing, travel abroad, travel advice, turkey, turkey kitesurfing | in The Knowledge 
"As a group of students we spent our days on a building site helping in the construction of a neighbourhood care point (primarily kitchen and classrooms). One of the things I really enjoyed about this was having the chance to actually do some manual labour with such a visible result."
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 4:18PM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, Travel, africa, backpacking, backpacking africa, gap travel, swaziland, travel abroad, travel advice, what to pack | in The Knowledge 
"Having made friends with the village comedian/drunk, he told me that, to my surprise, he ran a dive centre just opposite our camp on Wasini Island. Wondering how he managed to run this sort of operation whilst nursing a hangover and without drowning, I thought I’d best do my PADI advanced open water with him."
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:17AM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, Kenya, diving, gap year travel, hammock, madagascar, padi, slr | in The Knowledge 
"What do you do when you’ve just graduated from University, your birthday is coming up and you’ve got a couple weeks to kill, but not a lot of money? There’s really only one solution: a road trip to Austria!"
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:50AM | Post a Comment | tagged Gap year, austria, central america, frontier, goldeneye, roadtrip, switzerland, thailand, verzasca dam, what to pack | in The Knowledge 
"We spent a total of eight days in the jungle, canoeing and trekking with the direction of our guides, one of whom was a member of the local Huaorani tribe. We were shown some of the many incredible plants and animals the Amazon has to offer, including edible ants (they taste of lemons) and plants that can be used as antiseptics and painkillers."
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 12:39PM | Post a Comment | tagged amazon basin, canoe, ecuador, frontier, gap year travel, hammock, internships, overseas operations, quito, tent, the knowledge, what to pack | in The Knowledge 
"We heard the call “shark!” and I was the first one to jump in the rickety cage and wait to see a great white. Unfortunately, the shark had other ideas and didn’t make an appearance for half an hour, leaving us in the cold South African waters until another shark was spotted. The great white that perused the cage measured 6 feet long and moved very gracefully."
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 1:01PM | Post a Comment | tagged conservation, gap year travel, great white shark, india, madagascar, south africa, tiger, travel advice, what to pack, wildlife | in The Knowledge 