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Advice and Articles

Our advice section is dedicated to guides and articles written by gapyear.com members as well as staff.

All the advice pages and downloads – which cover everything from how to pack and which jabs you need to dealing with pickpockets and making sure you don’t cause offence by mistake in foreign cultures – are written by people from their direct experience. We really are a site created by backpackers for backpackers.

We’re also always on the lookout for talented writers from all ages and backgrounds.

If you’re interested in travel writing, join up with the Gapyear Writers Academy, our new scheme to help gapyear.com members develop their writing for publication. It’s free … but you’ve got to convince us of the brilliance of your ideas.

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