Big 5 Wildlife Experience 2009, Zimbabwe

  Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: Inquire for dates

Description: Your 3 week trip will take you behind the scenes into some of Zimbabwe's most stunning National Parks areas, the famous Victoria Falls, a Black Rhino Conservancy and Antelope Park home to our world-first lion breeding and rehabilitation project. Work hands on with Elephants, Rhinos and Lions during your trip!

Highlights: - Increase your knowledge of the African bush and cultures through our initial Pathfinders Zambezi River Exploration, camping on the River banks and islands of this ancient river by night, surrounded by elephants and other wildlife, and paddling towards the Victoria Falls amongst the complex waterways by day.
- Your Bush Awareness course is led by professional guides and will introduce you to the idiosyncrasies of the African bush and give you a deeper understanding of the fragile relationships between man and beast.
- Your expedition will then take you behind the scenes into one of Zimbabwe's stunning Hwange National Park. African Impact has official permission to operate our volunteer programmes within a number of Zimbabwe's most exciting and interesting National Parks. This is hugely exciting in terms of our goals for conservation in Zimbabwe, and adds enormously to the areas in which we are able to be effective in implementing high-impact conservation initiatives.
- Walk with lions at our breeding and rehabilitation programme at Antelope Park in the Zimbabwe Midlands.
- You will spend your final week working hands-on with rhinos at a unique black rhino-breeding programme.

Qualifications: Minimum 17 years, maximum decided on potential participants' health

Cost in US$: USD 3,070

Experience Required: no

Age Range: Minimum 17 years

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Zimbabwe Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Written Application

African Impact's Mission Statement: African Impact facilitates cultural exchange programmes through volunteer work. We awards you the opportunity to immerse yourselves in local schools, health institutions, communities and wildlife conservation programmes. In this way as a volunteer you are able to leave your mark on a corner of Africa whilst at the same time experiencing a lifestyle that will shift your perspectives and allow you to see our world in a different light. We invite you to join us on a journey to Africa to explore, to inspire and to impact. We invite you to be more than a tourist, but to be a traveller, a conservationist and a humanitarian.

Year Founded: 1999