Backpacker Tours

Backpacker Tours for Gap Year Travel

Backpacker tours are an inevitable part of a gap year. After all, your gap year is a kind of tour in itself. So we thought we'd make life a little easier for you by having all our gap year tours in one section.

If you're thinking of hiring a 4x4 and driving around Fraser Island in Australia or planning on meeting loads of cool peeps on ThaIntro then you're in the right place. Or maybe you're just looking for a information on how to travel around the USA. There are hundreds of backpacker tours to choose from; it's just finding the right one for you...

So have a look, shop around and see what tours take your fancy.

Gapyear.com Guides

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Overland Tours

Overland Tours are a very different way to see a country; they're safe, sociable and cost-effective. The other passengers will become like a second family to you and you'll make some real friends for life. Also, overland tours travel to countries that are notoriously difficult to travel around.

If you don't know much about Overland Tours then you had better read Mary Malyon's Guide to Overlanding. It explains everything...

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Where The Wild Things Are

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Mount Everest base camp Trek

Gap Facts - Tanzania

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Lake Tanganyika is the longest fresh water lake in the world (677km), and the second deepest (1433m), with over 250 species of fish.

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