The world is your oyster....

Think there's nothing out there that you can do? Stuck for ideas? Not inspired by backpacking or volunteering?  It doens't matter - there's hundreds of interesting things you can do on a year out. Here's a brief list of things that you could do on your own grown up gap year...

Take a hot air balloon over the Serengeti

Bush camp under the stars at Ayers Rock

Stay with friends abroad

Take the Canadian Pacific Railway

Animal conservation in Madagascar

Work in a foreign country

Travel overland through the Middle East

Help out on an organic farm

Take the Orient Express

Take a ski instructors course

Drive a motorbike through Peru

Visit a long lost relative

City-hop around Europe

Work in an olive grove

Take extended cookery courses

Learn a new skill

Cycle across  Eastern Europe

Teach English to monks  in Sri Lanka

Go on a spiritual retreat in an Indian Ashram