A NEW theme park will offer juggling, weed-smoking and infectious diseases to students unable to afford to take a year out.

With university approaching for many young people, Gap Year Land, near Tenby train station in South West Wales, offers the gap year experience in a single, affordable day.

Spokesperson Emma Bradford said: “Set in a vast temperature-controlled plexiglass dome, the attraction is themed around ‘Gapnadesh’, a fictional country in the developing world that is cheap, hot and somehow ‘spiritual’.

“Students can enjoy stilted conversations with culturally-stereotyped locals, smoke chillums with a dreadlocked fruitarian whose parents own Scotland and pick up a devastating intestinal parasite from the attraction’s own-brand ‘Infecto’ drinking water.

“The park’s headline attraction is Very Dangerous Bus Journey, a breakneck ride along a near-vertical polystyrene mountain track in an overcrowded vintage bus driven by a sleep-deprived man who appears to be muttering a prayer.

“It really is a complete gap year and more for young people who can’t afford a lengthy foreign trip but still want to experience illness, sexual opportunism and falling to their death in a ravine.”

Rough Guide writer Martin Bishop, given a sneak preview, said: “It’s amazing. The actors playing poor people really look malnourished, and you certainly wouldn’t get to haggle over a 12p rickshaw fare at Thorpe Park.”