
DAY ONE
Arrive O R Tambo Airport, Johannesburg. Transfer to Soweto.
Afternoon bicycle tour of Soweto (visit Mandela’s house, the Hector Peterson memorial, township shebeen, etc.).
Overnight Soweto Backpackers. Traditional African food for dinner.
DAY TWO
Visit Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg.
Set off by road for White River, Mpumalanga.
Settle down at lodge. Evening orientation.
DAY THREE
Start project.
DAY FOUR
Work on project site.
Afternoon: Township tour.
DAY FIVE
Work on project site
Afternoon: “Walking in another man’s shoes” exercise
DAY SIX
Work on project site
Afternoon: Visit orphanage to deliver food bought yesterday
DAY SEVEN
Breakfast at lodge.
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Visit Lifeform Taxidermy
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Visit Wildlife Pharmaceuticals
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Lunch at lodge
Visit Uthando House of Safety. Play football, games, face painting etc. Deliver food bought in “walking in another man’s shoes” exercise
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Dinner at lodge followed by stargazing
DAY EIGHT
Breakfast at lodge
Drive to Barberton (about an hour’s drive). Gold panning in river. Tour of gold mine. Lunch in Barberton
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Afternoon: Geotrail
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Return to lodge. Dinner followed by drumming.
DAY NINE
Breakfast at lodge
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Visit to Elephant Whispers, Hazyview
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Enter the Kruger National Park at Phabeni Gate (about 15 minutes drive from Hazyview)
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Sunset safari drive followed by dinner around the campfire
DAY TEN
Early morning safari drive in open safari vehicles; breakfast back at camp
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Visit the rhino holding pen at the veterinary centre at Skukuza, speak to the resident vet and meet orphaned baby rhinos
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Safari drive through the Kruger Park in open safari vehicles, stopping at a picnic site for lunch.
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Return to camp for dinner around the campfire.
DAY ELEVEN
Breakfast in camp
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To wilderness camp in a private reserve adjoining the Kruger National Park, via the Panorama Route
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Arrive at wilderness camp in time for lunch. Split into groups for afternoon and evening activities.
DAY TWELVE
Wilderness camp​
DAY THIRTEEN
Wilderness camp​
DAY FOURTEEN
Wilderness camp​
DAY FIFTEEN
Wilderness camp; a “conservation experience” involving the darting of an animal for research or conservation purposes.
DAY SIXTEEN
Early morning game drive, followed by breakfast
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Pizzas for lunch in Hazyview
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Visit to a reptile park in Hazyview
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Return and overnight at lodge
DAY SEVENTEEN
Breakfast at lodge
Bus to O R Tambo airport to return home
Soweto is a colourful, vibey, fun, sociable place.
Worth a visit to set the scene in S.A.
This is about a 5 hour drive (with comfort/refreshment stops along the way)
This could be erecting and painting a jungle gym/playground equipment; and/or preparing and planting a vegetable garden; and/or painting classroom walls and murals etc. (Allow more time for a building project, such as a classroom, library, kitchen, house for a destitute family etc.)
Includes “chicken dust” lunch in a typical township tavern (the best chicken ever!!); a tour and explanation of the history of townships; visit a township family; visit an orphanage; visit a sangoma (traditional healer/ witchdoctor); visit the Savuka Africa Youth Crew and the Siyathokoza Zulu dance group. (Savuka is a group of young people who learn Zulu dancing, not only to keep their African culture alive, but to keep bored, disillusioned and unemployed youngsters off the street. They also help many people in their community. They are mind-blowingly talented!)
Team members literally swap shoes to experience the physical sensation of “walking in another man’s shoes”; then, with a cash allowance they visit a supermarket to shop for a township family of four for a month.
The biggest taxidermists in the southern hemisphere. Fascinating insight into the world of hunting, its contribution to conservation, a close up look at many different wild animals and the taxidermy process
A state-of-the-art factory where the tranquillising drug used for wildlife captures, M99, is manufactured. Another aspect of conservation and wildlife management.
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An orphanage in the township of Masoyi for about 22 children, most of them victims of child trafficking.
Barberton was the site of the first gold rush in South Africa. Small nuggets can still be found in the streams and gold mining is still the town’s main industry.
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The Barberton Makhonjwa mountains are of great geological interest and are about to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. An experienced guide enhances the experience.
An up-close-and-personal interaction with elephants.
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Accommodation is at one of the main camps, in thatched rondavel (round huts)
Learn about the plight of rhinos that are being poached for their horns and what is being done to prevent their potential extinction.
Visit sites of natural beauty – God’s Window, the Three Rondawels, Blyde River Canyon (the third largest canyon in the world and the largest green canyon in the world). Stop at a traditional African craft market.
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Our partners are leaders in the training of field and safari guides. They offer a short course to our groups incorporating aspects of their professional safari guide course and an in-depth bush experience involving safari drives and bush walks in Big Five country with experienced rangers, with as much educational input as is required, and lots of fun activities in between. Accommodation is in tents or on wooden sleeping platforms.
Sleep out in the bush under the stars
An exercise involving the de-horning of three rhinos can be arranged; this is one of the strategies used by some reserves to prevent them being poached for their horns.