
The African Schoolroom can organise a range of activities to suit your interests, budget and timeframe. Most tours mix a number of activity types, ensuring a memorable and meaningful visit to South Africa. You can also view our Sample Itinerary.
Service Projects
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Work at a township school or orphanage – interact with children (reading programmes, sport, ball skills, games), paint classrooms, murals on walls, prepare and plant vegetable gardens, build playground equipment etc
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Depending on time and budget, build a classroom, dormitory, kitchen, library, community centre, house for a destitute family etc

Community and Culture
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Tour of Soweto (visit Mandela’s house, Hector Pieterson memorial etc)
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Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg
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Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
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Bicycle tours of Soweto and Zwelisha townships
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Township tour of Kanyamazane, Mpumalanga (including a visit to an orphanage, sangoma [traditional healer], Zulu dance group etc)
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Visit a private / independent school
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Visit a centre for physically and mentally disabled children
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Swaziland day trip or overnight trip
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Visit from an African choir

Wilderness Experiences
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Educational camps, training courses and walking safaris take place in Big Five reserves in pristine wilderness areas, led by highly trained guides and rangers.​

Adventure / “Adrenalin’’ activities
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Big Swing
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White water rafting / gecko-ing / kloofing
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Abseiling
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Hiking
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Rock climbing
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Horse riding
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Aerial cable trail
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Tree-top challenge obstacle course

Conservation / Wildlife
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Elephant Whispers - elephant interaction
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Chimp Eden (Jane Goodall Centre) – chimpanzee sanctuary
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Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
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Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre
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Reptile park

Geology / Geography
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The Geotrail
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Sudwala Caves
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Gold panning
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Go down a gold mine

Arts
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Ceramic pottery studios (with the option of making an item of pottery)
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Tony Frederiksson, driftwood sculptor
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The Artists’ Press, a world-renowned lithography studio that has hosted many famous artists
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Various different artist studios
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Bronze art foundry

Miscellaneous
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Drumming
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Stargazing
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Visit by choir
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“Walking in another man’s shoes” exercise
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Township church service
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Movie evenings (South African themed DVDs)
