5 Top Destinations for Spending Your Gap Years Abroad Learning or Teaching Gap Year Sports.

Posted by admin on May 5, 2010

The world really is your oyster when it comes to your gap years abroad with many opportunities to either learn new skills or to help those who are less fortunate than yourselves. There seems to be an increase in in people taking gap years abroad to learn or teach sports, gap year sports covers quite a diverse scope. Martial arts in China, soccer coaching in Africa, surfing in South Africa or diving and working with marine life in South America are all possible and of course many many more.

So if you are looking at spending your Gap years abroad, I have put together this list of the Top 5 sporting destinations

1) South America – wonderful weather, friendly people and of course a wealth of natural beauty and history. Particularly popular with those who are spending gap years abroad for it’s fantastic and wide variation in marine life that it holds. South America Boasts some of the worlds top diving schools, newbies can learn from scratch and experienced divers can learn to tutor gap year sports.

2) China – experience the age and beauty of such a historical country while spending time on your gap years abroad learning the ancient traditions and art of Kung Fu from those who practice and live the life of the ancient kung fu masters.

3) South Africa – has much to offer you on your gap years abroad especially with Gap Year Sports. Working with and teaching locals can be very fulfilling whether this is for Football, Rugby or perhaps surfing of some of the most fantastic surf you will find anywhere. For me though, the ultimate whilst on my gap year abroad would be teaching surfing to local un-privileged children, talk about rewarding.

4) Canada – Skiers and Snowboarders flock here as it boast some of the best extreme sports venues anywhere in the world. With gaurenteed weather and andrenaline, this have to be the ultimate extreme destination. If you are looking for the ultimate gap year sports, this has to be on your shortlist for your gap years abroad.

5) Australia – The diversity of Gap year sports is the main reason why Oz is the most popular gap year destinations, that and the weather of course. Every kind of gap year sports are available, in particular those that we in the UK don’t get the weather for, scuba diving and other water sports are particularly popular.

This is a list of some of the most popular and unusual destinations for taking gap years abroad and in particular there are many opportunities for gap year sports. And if gap year sports are not really your thing then maybe you could look at spending your gap years abroad doing volunteer work.

This was a guest post written on behalf or Sport Lived. Specialists in gap years abroad in particular Gap Year Argentina. for more information about gap year sports including Gap Year Football please visit www.sportlived.co.uk.