"The wealthiest one per cent of families are taking gap years with their children as they want to show them “how real people live”, a travel agency has revealed. [A]... London-based travel agency, arranged 80 sabbatical trips lasting at least one month over the past six years, with a significant jump in bookings last year. The exclusive trips are becoming even more popular amongst wealthy families, who want to take their children all over the world and show them a simplistic way of life “from a bygone era”... Snow leopard spotting in India, living with the Sān people in Botswana and diving with sharks off the coast of South Africa."
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