Safari/African experience

This amazing week is specially designed by Bush Direct to give as much experience as possible in one week of the Kruger Park, rehabilitation centres, an adventure day plus some community work so that participants can see the real South Africa.  Compare our prices and we believe that you will agree that no-one offers as much as we do!

SUNDAY:  Transfer to Tzaneen from Johannesburg airport or from your last project (within Limpopo)

Stay in a local guest house, evening meal included.

MONDAY:  After breakfast visit the elephant rehabilitation centre, learn all about these fascinating animals whilst standing next to them and touching them.  Take an elephant ride through the Bush and hopefully watch them having a mud bath afterwards.

Visit the beautiful tea gardens for lunch and marvel at the views.

Visit the vervet monkey rehabilitation centre and learn about the vervets, samango monkey, the baboons and see the other animals such as the bushpigs and the ostriches.  Depending on the situation you may be fortunate enough to handle a monkey.

Stay in a guest house near Phalaborwa where you’ll enjoy an evening meal.

TUESDAY:  Get up very early and enter the Kruger Park where you will spend the day looking at the animals including the Big 5. 

Have lunch at one of the restaurants and spend the afternoon driving in the Kruger.

Stay in the Kruger overnight and have a nice braii (BBQ) under the stars.

WEDNESDAY:  Get up very early and spend the day in the Kruger looking at the animals until the afternoon.  Lunch will again be at one of the restaurants.

You’ll leave the Kruger and spend the night at a local guest house where you’ll eat your evening meal.

THURSDAY:  Get up very early to go to the Game Reserve where you will eat breakfast before going for a walk with either one or two lions.

Head for Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre where you will have an organized tour to see all the animals there and understand their behaviour and why these ones can’t be released into the wild.

Lunch will be at the Reptile Park before having a tour of the Reptile Park seeing the snakes and other reptiles.  Those brave enough can hold a python as an optional extra.

You’ll then drive to Tzaneen where you’ll stay in a local guest house and eat your evening meal.

FRIDAY:  After breakfast you will go to Magoebaskloof where you will do a Canopy Tour over waterfalls and through ravines.  Lunch will be in a local pub in Haenertsberg and then you continue to Thaba Metsi to go on a two hour quad bike ride which will include a stop at Cheerio Gardens tea garden.

After this you will go back to your guest house where you will see the tame hippo and be able to feed him.

SATURDAY:  After breakfast you will go to Alon Farm, a local community where you will go on a hike through the Bush and see the tame zebra which usually come up close enough for you to touch.

You will have lunch with the large community and then spend the afternoon on a community project of your choice ranging from helping in a school, the orphanage, the workshops, building bridges or other construction, or other seasonal projects.

After this you will return to the guest house for your evening meal.

SUNDAY:  You will be transferred either to Johannesburg airport for your flight out or to your project if you are going to one after this week.

What is Included:  all accommodation, 3 meals a day, transfer from Johannesburg airport or from your last project (within Limpopo), transfer on to your next project (within Limpopo) or to Johannesburg airport.

Entries to all Rehabilitation Centres, Elephant Ride, walk with the lion, Canopy Ride and 2 hour Quad bike, Entry to Kruger Park, accompanied by project leader on all the visits and projects.

What is NOT Included:  Flights to Johannesburg, travel/medical insurance, optional extras such as holding a python etc, luxury items such as chocolate, alcohol etc.

COSTS:

£750 per person

£700 per person 2 people booking at the same time

£650 per person 3 or more booking at the same time

The Safari/African experience can be added onto any of our projects as an extra week.