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Want to gain qualifications on your Gap Year? Use your gap year to learn something new and have  some new skills? Then the following programs will help you do just that. Gain qualifications on your gap year!

We are talking seriously cool qualifications too. Like your PADI diving qualifications, IKO Kite surf qualifications or micro Light Pilot qualifications or even the FGASA qualifications to become a south African field guide!

The following Gap year programs offer qualifications:

Gap Year Qualifications

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Learn to track animals, lead tours and approach the big 5 on foot living out in the South African bush on our wildlife field guide training program. An unforgettable experience. No safari will be the same ever again!

ACCELERATED FREE FALL SKY DIVING COURSE. SPAIN                              

Learn to Skydive in the heart of Andalucía! On the Accelerated Free Fall Course you plummet to the earth by day, tapas and flamenco by night! 8 Jumps working towards a skydiving qualification enabling you to jump all over the world.

MICROLIGHT PILOTS LICENSE IN SOUTH AFRICA—3 AXIS                        

Step into aviation: Gain your Microlight pilots license in South Africa. Learning on a 3 Axis Microlight over game reserves. Your ground school will be an adventure in itself staying with hippos and crocodiles in the African Bush!

FREEDIVING COURSE IN THAILAND                                                                

Become one with the sea in one of the most serene extreme sports! This 6 week freediving course will train you to freedive deep in the gulf of Thailand, holding your breath and swimming with turtles, whale sharks and fish!

The coolest Gap Year job on a tropical island! Earn as you travel and train as an underwater videographer on a paid internship in Koh Tao Thailand. If you love the sea and are fascinated by the beautiful sights it offers consider a career in videography.

Xtreme Gap Divemasters dive with sharks before breakfast! Become a SCUBA PRO spending your gap year on a tropical island and living the life in paradise.

WRECK HUNTER: TECH DIVER THAILAND                                                       

Learn to dive to serious depth, with a DSAT Tec Deep Course, locating WW2 wrecks and diving them on a technical diving live aboard in the gulf of Thailand.

DIVE INSTRUCTOR COURSE KOH TAO THAILAND                                          

Dive instructors are always smiling. They get paid to live on tropical island “working”. Take  your diving career one step further with one of the worlds best value PADI SCUBA Dive instructor courses (IDC) in Thailand.

THRESHER SHARK DIVEMASTER, PHILLIPINES                                                          

Live on a beautiful small and friendly tropical island diving every day in the clearest waters and studying Thresher Shark conservation. Manta rays, Hammerheads, wreck dives included.

XTREME MASTER SCUBA SHARK DIVER, PHILLIPINES                                                           

Train up to Scuba Master, live on a beautiful tropical island an study all there is to know about the  Thresher shark.  The Philippines is great for diving!

LEARN TO SCUBA DIVE IN THAILAND: KOH TAO                                       

Learn to Scuba dive on your gap year with our PADI courses in Koh Tao. From Open Water to IDC to diving packages. Remember we are company run by professional divers! So you are in safe hands.

LEARN TO KITESURF ¦ KITESURFING IN TARIFA                                                        

Welcome to Tarifa the capital of wind and Mecca for Kitesurfers! Learn this exciting extreme sport under the guidance of professionals and gain a kitesurfing qualification. The best value and premier kitesurf destinations in the world.

KITE SURFING  COURSE IN CAPETOWN                    

Learn to Kite surf in a spectacular setting—with Table mountain as a back drop! BKSA qualification. Cape town generates a fair amount of wind running of the 2 oceans—this makes Cape Town an ideal place to learn to Kitesurf.

SURF INSTRUCTOR COURSE AUSTRALIA                  

Qualification enabling you to work as a surf instructor in Australia. Perfect for a working holiday spent on the beach! Split between vibrant Sydney and  stunning Queensland.

Want to get paid to sit on the beach? Yes of course you do! You could be the new Hoff. With and Xtreme Lifeguard course in Australia! Earn up to £500 a week protecting lives and living the life!

Feel the rush and freedom of flying an ultralight trike when you study and gain your microlight pilot license in South Africa.  All the while you will be flying in an open cockpit near the animals of the Kruger!

MOUNTAINEERING SCHOOL HIMALAYA, NEPAL                  

Learn the basics of high altitude mountaineering and summit a mighty Himalayan peak (Yala peak 5500M)  at the same time. 15 day training camp, guides and back up crew await you in Nepal.

Andes Climbing Adventure ¦ Mountaineering school , ecuador                        

Cut your teeth on 3 mighty peaks in Ecuador! Learn high altitude mountain climbing techniques at our glacier climbing school and summit Imbabura (4600m), Cotopaxi (5897 m) and Chimborazo (6310m). Discover an amazing sense of achievement and 3 incredible views.

climbing in ecuador

SKI / SNOWBOARD INTERNSHIP, SPAIN                              

Perfect your snow sport techniques on a 4 week intensive ski and snowboard internship in the Sierra Nevada.  Up to 6 hours a day with ski and snowboard instructors , shadowing them and assisting with lessons. Off piste, on piste, set in the sunniest ski resort in Europe.