8 days/7nights with Boogie Pilgrim and EcoAfrica

About the Trip

During this once in a lifetime trip with Boogie Pilgram and arranged by Eco Africa, you will visit Tsarasoatra Bird Sanctuary; a UNESCO-site fortress palace in Ambohimanga; one of the last vestiges of dense rainforest on the highlands in Anjozorobe; and Mandtadia Natural Park which is home to over 60 groups of lemurs. You’ll search for nocturnal lemurs on night hikes, and observe everyday life on the canals of the Pangalanes. Lodging ranges from Hotel Tana Plaza, to the tented Soa Safari Camp, Bush House Eco-Lodge, and the upscale Vakona Forest Lodge.

Blackout dates: none

Includes: accommodation, most meals, transportation to and from airport as well as local transportation, entrance fees to the parks, and hotel taxes.

Awards: The private park Tsarasaotra is a RAMSAR site since 2005, and Boogie Pilgram was awarded First prize of the Environment of RDV or National German Travel Agents in 2005

Certification: none to mention

Starting bid: $500

About the Organization

Our ambition is to share a special moment with our guests introducing them all the natural treasures hidden in Madagascar. To create alternative tourism products with positive local impact.

Our way to do it? With care! Madagascar is home to 80% of endemic fauna and flora. But as Madagascar is a developing country, our environment is easily abused, local communities receive an unfairly low return from tourism activity.

We believe that we have a prominent place in nature conservation and in fair trade in Tourism as we are an Inbound Tour Operator.

Green Practices

BUSHHOUSE is built from natural materials and well integrated in the landscape. We use natural ventilation inside the bungalows, solar power for radio communication, and dead wood for water heating.

We participate actively to all actions concerning environment and ecotourism in Madagascar (National Parks Board, Ministry of Environment, Tourism Board…). BUSHHOUSE has been included into the regional ecotourism masterplan developed by Conservation International (CI) recently.

At SOA CAMP, we work with ONG FANAMBY. For the concrete development actions must also involve the private sector, which is manifest in Anjozorobe. Our collaborative goal is to show local populations the advantages the private sector can and will bring to their communities; we do employ the local population at the camp, and we do promote local products such as honey and essential oils which are sold at the camp.

The Private park Tsarasaotra is a RAMSAR site since 2005.

BOOGIE PILGRIM has obtained in 2005, the first prize of environment of RDV ( Deutscher Reisebüro Verband) or National Association german travels agents.

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With ecoAfrica, Rhino Walking Safaris and Lion Sands River Lodge

About the Trip

Begin this great package at Lion Sands River Lodge and on the border of the Sabie River between the Kruger National Park and Sabi Sabi Private Nature Reserve. Here you’ll enjoy game drives twice a day in arguably 2 of Africa’s best game viewing areas. Then experience a luxury walking safari with Rhino Walking Safaris in 12,000 hectares of pristine bushveld. You’ll spend 2 nights in the luxury tented Plains Camp and 2 nights in Rhino Post Safari Lodge. For 2 nights you’ll have the option to sleep under the stars and amongst nature on a raised wooden platform! Eco Africa will handle the coordination of your trip. Sleep outs are subject to weather.

Includes: accommodation, most meals, and game activities

Starting bid: $1200

Lion Sands River Lodge

Lion Sands River Lodge overlooks the Sabie River – the border between the Kruger National Park and Sabi Sabi Private Nature Reserve – arguably Africa’s 2 best game viewing areas. The lodge dates back to the 1930s and is still owned and managed by the family who passionately started it all, ensuring that you enjoy and experience traditional African hospitality at its finest.

A stay at Lion Sands River Lodge is all about spirit, warmth, nature & relaxation with a host of activities to help you do just that. Highlights of your stay are likely to include game drives, bush walks, star-gazing, hippo tours, wildlife lectures, treehouse sleep-outs, bush spa and bush dinners.

Rhino Walking Safari:

Experience a luxury walking safari in 12,000 hectares of pristine bushveld in the only wilderness concession in the Kruger National Park. Follow elephant paths and rhino trails on foot through this internationally renowned Big Five area - observing a diversity of fauna and flora on your way. Accommodation and service is of the highest quality and each safari is tailor-made to include a combination of camps and a possible night under the stars.

About Lion Sands
Lion Sands is situated in the southern portion of the Sabi Sand Reserve, well known for better game viewing and a far smaller concentration of lodges than the northern and western areas. The reserve features a great diversity of general fauna and flora.

Lion Sands has exclusive access to the Sabie River. From its source high up in the Drakensburg mountain range where it passes through the famous Mac Mac falls, the river through Lion Sands teems with wildlife. It is the definitive safari experience. The relatively cool riverbanks offer a brief respite from the relentless African sun. Splendid parades of animals pass through to quench their thirst at the water’s edge. And eager predators wait patiently.

Lion Sands has adopted a sustainable and meaningful approach to community development. The Company sponsors the Henna Pre-school, situated in the Huntington Community. The school has 130 children and Lion Sands facilitates both financial and other support to the school in the form of a “Guest Sponsorship Programme” whereby the school receives donations for building, books, training, food and water from Guests introduced to the school. Guests may also sponsor a child for a year at the school. Lion Sands also supports the school directly on a budget per annum basis. New projects for 2005 include running water, new classrooms and a new kitchen. Weekly medical assistance and aids clinics are also offered.

All trees remained in place during the construction of the lodge and all roots were “bridged” for foundations. The gardens contain indigenous plants and trees only and all alien plants are removed immediately. Where possible, natural building material was utilised during the construction process. Lion Sands has a resident ecologist doing research on the property and monitoring the lodge’s impact on the environment – ensuring that it is minimal!

About Rhino Walking Safaris and Rhino Post Safari Lodge

Approximately 20 km North East of the main Kruger rest camp at Skukuza, the concession shares a 15km boundary with Mala Mala in the Sabi Sands private reserve with the big game moving freely between the two reserves. This environmentally sensitive, big five game area is ideal for walking safaris offering a great diversity of fauna and flora.

Each safari, with no more than 8 guests accompanied by two expert and armed guides offers a new and exhilarating, yet timeless experience in an ever-changing environment. Qualified to the most stringent standards the guides will share their wealth of bush culture and knowledge.

In the tender process for the concession inside Kruger 20% of the evalutation criteria involved BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) initiatives. RWS was one of the highest scoring of all the concessionaires. The BEE commitment involved shareholding, employment & training, and SMME. We have met all our commitments and work closely with the Social Ecology department of the KNP (Kruger National Park). One of our SMME initiatives has been to acquire a mini bus, and set up an employee (who selected through a interview program with Social Ecology dept) with his own taxi business – the main contract being to transfer our staff in and out the park.

Rhino Post Safari Lodge was built using natural materials of stone, wood, thatch & canvas, this organic camp has 8 suites. The utmost care was taken to minimise the environmental impact of the lodge, and to that end, no concrete was used in the building’s foundations, careful consideration was taken in the layout of the camp, battery power is used for lighting, special indigenous Reedbed System processes the bathroom waste, and other waste is sorted and recycled wherever possible.

All the camps on the concession were constructed with organic material, so that in 20 years when our lease expires, the whole camp could be removed and no sign that we had been there. For eg. at Rhino Post the walls in the lounge are Gabion stone walls so that there are no foundations.

We do not permit any off road driving and have limited the roads on the concession to access roads. We prefer our guests to explore the area on foot, without crossing a mish mash of roads.

All our developments were subject to EIA evaluation and we have also appointed an independent company as our environmental officer. We have in place operational manuals, which dictate all policies in respect of environmental, waste management, water usage (this is measured every month) etc.

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10 days/9 nights with ecoAfrica & Game Trails

About the Trip

This ‘to die for’ mobile safari with Game Trails and coordinated by EcoAfrica grants travelers access to remote wilderness areas within Botswana’s national parks and reserves, far beyond the reaches of typical game drives. Led by a professional guide, travelers will enjoy spacious and comfortable tented accommodation, beds, private en-suite bathrooms, all meals and non-alcoholic drinks, specialized game drives with a guaranteed window seat, as well as exclusive camping in private campsites within the national parks and reserves.

Includes: All entrance and camping fees within the national parks and reserves, local transfers, Medical Evacuation Insurance, and a 10% VAT, services of a safari chef and camp assistants

Starting bid: $1200
Reminiscent of the expeditions undertaken by the early explorers, this mobile safari is lead by a professional and passionate guide who is accompanied by a small convoy of camp staff and equipment necessary for a self-contained journey through the wilderness.

The flexibility of a mobile safari allows travellers access to remote wilderness areas within Botswana’s national parks and reserves, far beyond the reaches of a morning game drive out of a lodge. Highlights include the Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and Victoria Falls.

Day 1-2 Moremi Wildlife Reserve

Your safari guide will be there to welcome you on arrival at Maun Airport. The exact departure time from Maun Airport will be advised closer to the time, as this depends on Air Botswana’s flight schedule. Expect to leave Maun and begin your journey mid-day to early afternoon. For those guests who plan on spending a pre-safari night in Maun (highly recommended after a long-haul flight), please arrange a hotel transfer to the airport to meet your guide at the specified time, or make an arrangement for your guide to meet you at the hotel before going to the airport.

Begin the journey to Moremi Game Reserve, stopping for a picnic lunch en-route, and arriving at a pre-erected camp in the Xakanaxa region of the reserve in time for sundowners. Spending your first two nights camping in the Xakanaxa region, you explore the surrounding wilderness on game drives during the day.

Camping in Xakanaxa within the Moremi Game Reserve (Full Board)
Day 3-5 Okavango, Moremi Wildlife Reserve

Following an early morning game drive en-route to the Xakanaxa boat station, you will embark on a water world adventure, exploring the endless network of crystal clear waterways and secret lagoons by motor boat, and the surrounding palm fringed islands on foot. After a full day on the water, return to dry land and head north-east, en route to the Khwai community area.

The Khwai rivers forms a boundary between the reserve and the community area. Spend the following three nights camping at an exclusive campsite in the community area, exploring the Khwai floodplains on game drives both during the day and at night.

Exploring after dark with spotlights offers you an opportunity to experience some of the nocturnal animals that are rarely encountered during the day. We will also have the opportunity to explore the surrounding wilderness on foot and enjoy an up close and personal encounter with Botswana’s flora and fauna. It is important to note that night drives and guided walks are not permitted within the national parks and reserves. These activities are conducted outside the boundaries of the Moremi Game Reserve in the Khwai community area.

Camping in the Khwai Community Area Bordering the Moremi Game Reserve (Full Board)
Day 6 & 7 Chobe National Park
Head further north en-route to Chobe National Park, were you spend the following two nights camping in an exclusive wilderness campsite in the Savuti region, exploring the dessert-like landscape of game drives.

Camping at Savuti within the Chobe National Park (Full Board)
Day 8 & 9 Chobe National Park
Leaving this parched landscape, continue your journey north to the contrasting Chobe region of the park. We spend the last two nights camping in an exclusive wilderness campsite along the Chobe river, exploring the river banks and surrounding flood plains on game drives. The grand finale being a leisurely afternoon boat cruise on the Chobe river against the backdrop of a magnificent African sunset.
Day 10
Following breakfast and an early morning game drive, your safari ends in Kasane late morning, around 11:30am. Your guide will drop you off either at Kasane Airport for onward flights or road transfers to Victoria Falls or Livingstone, or at your hotel, should you be spending a night in Kasane.
About the Organization

Approximately 80% of our team is made up of Botswana citizens from various communities in and around Maun, holding various positions from camp hand to operations manager.

Game Trails fully support the Botswana government in it’s drive to localise the tourism industry, creating employment and providing training for unskilled labor and contributing to the growth and development of communities in tourist areas.

In each of our safari itineraries, we utilise the camping facilities provided by local communities. For example, our Northern Explorer Safari includes two nights camping in campsites set up by the Khwai Community Developments Trust, the proceeds of which go to the community.

We also support small citizen owned safari companies, by subcontracting their vehicle and guide services when required.

We predominantly support projects such as Woman Against Rape and the aids orphans of Botswana.

The beauty of a mobile safari is that we leave the wilderness exactly as we found it, having little or no impact on the environment. We overnight at designated campsites (many are community run) which are little more than a clearing under a shady tree, with no permanent structures, electricity or running water. We bring everything with us and take it away again when we leave, including our rubbish.

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12 days/11nights in Tanzania with Wildland Adventures

About the Trip

Explore the most spectacular game parks in Tanzania. Travel with Wildland Adventures on this well-equipped camping safari designed to maximize your experience in the African bush. Spectacular game viewing is combined with hikes in Lake Eyasi and the Ol Moti Crater where you’ll experience authentic cultural encounters amongst the Maasai, Datoga, and nomadic Bushmen. Retire each night in comfortable, spacious mobile tents set in exclusive campsites with mattress beds, linens, and shared hot shower and drop toilet facilities. This safari is supported by a full camp staff, professional English-speaking naturalist guides, and spacious, 4WD safari vehicles.

Blackout dates: Based on availability and a minimum of 2 other paying passengers traveling on the same departure.

Includes: tented accommodations, game drives, meals and non alcoholic drinks, local ground transfers, airport transfer

Awards:

• Conde Nast Green List 2005
• Best Trip To Africa, Outside Magazine 2005

Starting bid: $1750

About the Organization

At Wildland Adventures, authenticity is our highest priority. Sincerity, good faith, genuineness - they’re all part of the ethic we embrace in approaching our world and the people and cultures we share it with. We’re devoted to helping our travelers experience the world with the honesty and affirmation that your choice of Wildland Adventures implies — a real world without artifice, that craves our understanding and compassion rather than our judgment; a world that seeks to welcome us rather than entertain us.

Of course, it can be argued that authenticity is an unattainable goal in travel. Our presence will forever change the place and the people with whom we come in contact. But if authenticity is characterized, according to its definitions, by “freedom from hypocrisy and pretense,” then Wildland Adventures can proceed with the confidence that our trips not only will strengthen our own humanity, but will help build the kind of inter-cultural, interpersonal and environmental bonds that enhance rather than exploit the people and places where we travel.

Green Practices

Ecotourism Pioneer

Wildland Adventures’ President was a founding member of the Board of The International Ecotourism Society

Environmental Conservation

Trips designed to develop an understanding of and respect for nature and minimize impact by supporting local regulations and management to control tourism, reduce plastics, use recyclable materials, electric motors instead of gas, organize clean-up treks, and support tree planting.

Travelers Conservation Trust

The Travelers Conservation Trust [TCT] was created by Wildland Adventures founder Kurt Kutay in 1986 as a non-profit, affiliate organization dedicated to educate travelers in responsible and sustainable tourism.

Ecotravelers As Conservationists

Wildland Adventures has taken steps to formalize the link between environmentally-concerned travelers and host-country grass roots conservation groups. Trip participants on are invited to become international members of a local conservation organization identified in advance by the Travelers Conservation Trust. They are billed by Wildland and their contribution is donated in its entirety in the name of each client as an individual membership in the local conservation organization.

Community-based Tourism and Cultural Authenticity

The direct involvement of indigenous people in organizing and leading Wildland Adventures assures the traveler’s experience will be an authentic, community-based experience that acknowledges and supports traditional culture and social needs of resident communities. The company supports small scale, community-based tourism and gives preference to hiring native peoples with less political power or economic opportunity to participate in their trips as planners, guides, cooks, and field managers. We help educate, train and hire indigenous staff and support micro-enterprise community development projects throughout the world.

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7 days/6 nights with Micato Safaris and Amboseli/Tsavo West Park with Campi ya Kanzi

About the Trip

This is as good as it gets! A deluxe safari in Kenya with Micato Safaris, in the heart of the beautiful Kenyan highlands. Fly across the dramatic Great Rift Valley and stunning Mara Escarpment into Kenya’s most famous game park, the Masai Mara National Reserve, where prides of lions share the savannah grasslands and watering holes with elephant, giraffe, buffalo, cheetah, leopard, black rhino and myriads of migrating species. This Kenyan-owned company provides world class safaris while supporting community projects, including AIDS orphanages.

Then visit Campi ya Kanzi, a safari lodge that employs only Maasai from the area. By staying at Campi ya Kanzi you will not only visit one of Kenya’s most uncharted areas, but you will play a very important role in conservation, both of wildlife and of the Maasai cultural heritage.

Includes: lodging, meals, big game safaris, transfers from Nairobi Airport

Awards:

Micato Safaris:

• World’s Best Tour Operator & Safari Outfitter, Travel & Leisure, 2003, 2004, 2005

Campi ya Kanzi:

• 2006 Tourism for Tomorrow
• 2005 Skal Ecotourism Award
• 2004 World Legacy Award finalist

Certification: Campi ya Kanzi: Bronze level Certification from the Ecotourism Society of Kenya

Starting bid: $2500

About Micato Safaris

Founded in 1966, Micato in Kenya is celebrating its 40th year of luxury safari outfitting. We were a family-owned company back then as we still are today. It is a source of great pride and distinction since most other well-known luxury tour companies have quietly sold out to big conglomerates in recent years.

Micato is also unique in that we specialise exclusively in Africa. Our intention has always been to offer the most enlightening, luxurious and personalised safaris possible. After all, Africa is our home and what we know and love best. It’s also where Micato’s owners, Felix and Jane Pinto, were born and live to this day. Micato has further evolved into a winning combination of African hospitality and American efficiency, with the younger Pintos having graduated from top American universities. Combined with the profound safari wisdom and insider access of the elder Pintos, it’s easy to see why Micato is repeatedly voted, “Best in the World.”

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About Campi ya Kanzi - ‘Camp of the hidden treasure’

This eco-friendly lodge lies on the Chyulu Hills, in front of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Built from local materials, it uses solar technology, supplying hot water and electricity to the seven luxury tented cottages.

This 400 square mile Maasai Reserve has many different environments, with a great array of wildlife and birdlife.

Together with classic game drives, a game walk with your professional guide and Maasai tracker, approaching game on foot, will be the highlight of your safari.

Responsible eco-tourism preserves their wildlife heritage and allows the Maasai to continue their traditional way of life - more than a millennium old.

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8 days/7 nights in South Africa with Wilderness Safaris, Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa), and Sabi Sabi. Coordinated by EcoAfrica.

About the Trip

This package to 3 premier locations in South Africa begins at CC Africa’s Ngala Private Game Reserve. You’ll go on an exhilarating 4 day walking safari, complete with an exceptional interpretive, up close and personal African experience. You’ll stay in a luxury tented camp complete with beds and other facilities! Then enjoy two nights at Wilderness Safari’s Pafuri Camp in northern Krugar National Park. Here you’ll stay in a luxurious thatched tent that is raised off the ground on wooden walkways. Enjoy 2 game drives a day, a game walk, and the thrill of sleeping amongst the Big Five! Then complete your trip at the highly luxiourious Sabi Sabi Bush Lodge. Spend mornings and evenings on the lodge’s legendary game drives, walking safaris, and “sundowners”. Retreat to the pool and your exquisite accommodation when you are through with game viewing. This will be a vacation you always remember!

Blackout dates: subject to availability and unavailable December 1, 2006 – January 15, 2006, Easter weekend, Peak periods, and South Africa Public Holidays

Includes: all accommodations and meals, game drives, walking safaris

Awards:

CC Africa:

• 2005 Imvelo Responsible Tourism Awards
• 2005 Finalist for Tourism for Tomorrow, Investor in People category
• 2003 Pommery Relais Environmental Award (Londolozi Reserve)

Wilderness Safaris:

• Finalist in Imvelo Awards fro 2005
• Telegraph Travel Award for Ethical Tourism 2005
• ASTA Environmental Award

Certification:

Sabi Sabi was one of the 1st properties in the world to receive Fair Trade in Tourism accreditation from World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Starting Bid: $1500

Pafuri Camp

Pafuri camp is situated on the northern bank of the Luvuvhu River within lush riverine forest. The camp consists of twenty luxurious thatched tents that are raised off the ground on wooden walkways. Each camp has its own plunge pool, dining room and lounge, although the two adjacent camps can be combined to accommodate large parties. There are six family tents, which are able to sleep families of up to four under one roof. The interiors are stylish, with a Makuleke influence. Each tented room has wonderful views onto the Luvuvhu River. The rooms are comfortably furnished and have 22v lighting and an en-suite bathroom with hot and cold running water and an additional “outside” shower for those who want to enjoy being closer to nature.

The area is home to all species including lion, rhino, buffalo, and leopard- although Parfuri is most famous for it’s big herds of elephants and for special, rare birds like the Pel’s fishing owl. On our morning and afternoon activities, guests may chose from a range of options, including game and nature drives in open 4×4 vehicles; night drives throughout the consession (north of the Luvuvhu); birding walks and foot safari’s all accompanied by an armed guide.

Ngala Walking Safari

CC Africa’s exciting 3-night, 4-day Walking Safaris deliver an exceptional interpretive, up-close and personal African experience on both Ngala and Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. Accompanied throughout by armed specialist rangers and trackers, guests have the opportunity to identify tracks and insects, birdwatch and learn about habitats and ecology as they walk through the bushweld.

Sabi Sabi Bush Lodge

Bush Lodge is set in the heart of the Sabi Sabi bushveld overlooking a water-hole and the African plain. You can relax in uncompromising high standards of service, efficiency and personalized attention - all in an informal atmosphere of warmth and hospitality. Each air-conditioned thatched suite features exquisite ethnic décor in keeping with the bushveld environment. The lodge features artistically designed open courtyards with spectacular wooden carvings by renowned South African sculptors, created from wood salvaged from the bushveld.This prize is fully inclusive of luxurious accomodation, three superb meals daily, morning and evening open land rover safaris, walking safais, and sundowners.

The property is situated within the Sabi Sand Wildtuin, adjoining South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
About the Wilderness Safaris

Pafuri Camp is situated between the Limpopo and the Luvuvhu Rivers in the northern sector of the Kruger National Park, in a 24 000-hectare area called the Pafuri or the Makuleke. This area is the ancestral home of the Makuleke people and is one of the most diverse and scenically attractive areas in the Kruger National Park.

This area is certainly the wildest and most remote part of the Park and offers varied vegetation, great game viewing, the best birding in all of the Kruger, and is filled with folklore of the early explorers and ancient civilisations. It is well known for its fever tree forests, beautiful gorges and Crook’s Corner, where the Limpopo and Luvuvhu rivers and three countries, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, meet. The region is considered one of Kruger’s biodiversity hotspots, with some of the largest herds of elephant and buffalo, leopard and lion and incredibly prolific birdlife.

Pafuri Camp caters for the traditional Kruger Park visitor and is the only camp accessible to self-drivers in the extreme northern sector of the Park. Being so different from the rest of the Park, it complements the scenery and experience offered at the lodges in the southern Kruger and the Sabi Sands. Travellers visiting the lodges or camps in the south can experience the Kruger in its entirety by including the Pafuri / Makuleke region in their itineraries.

Green Practices

Sympathetic design in harmony with the environment and raised above ground on decks so as not to impact the soil through compactions and also to avaoid impacting local animal movement. Recycling, environmentally friendly/sustainable buying policy, state of the art swage/gray water plant.

Recent Awards

• Finalist in Invelo Awards 2005- Pafuri
• Telegraph Travel Awards fro Ethical Tourism 2005- Wilderness Safaris
• World Legacy Award for Nature Travel 2003- Wilderness Safaris
• American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) Evironmental Award 2003- Wilderness Safaris

For more information, visit Wilderness Safaris

About CC Africa

Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) is Africa’s leading ecotourism organisation, committed to providing world-class holiday experiences for discerning travellers, and to ongoing investment in sustainable conservation development and community empowerment.

CC Africa’s ecotourism model recognises that economic development of the areas in which we operate is crucial to the maintenance of bio-diversity. We also recognise that much of Africa’s wildlife heritage and land is influenced or owned by local communities. Our model – successfully implemented throughout our operations in Africa — links international high net worth, low volume/low impact visitors to these wilderness areas and their resident communities. The resultant revenue tangibly demonstrates the benefits of ecotourism and conservation to the neighbouring residents.

Green Practices

CC Africa is a pioneer in sustainable ecotourism, conservation development and community empowerment. The company has a strong commitment to operating successful ecotourism business while contributing to the preservation of wilderness biodiversity and community benefits. We currently channel US$3 million annually into conservation and community empowerment. CC Africa’s staff are passionate about the company’s fundamental principle: decication to Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People.

Recent Awards

• 2005: Imvelo Responsible Tourism Award
• 2005: 3rd place, Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Award (Phinda Reserve)
• 2005: Nominated as a finalist for the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, Investor in People Category
• 2004: Nominated as a finalist for the World Legacy Award by National Geographic Traveler Magazine
• 2003: Pommery Relais Environmental Award (Londolozi Reserve)

For more information, visit Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa)

About Sabi Sabi

Since 1978 guests from all parts of the world have been enthralled by Africa’s fabled wildlife in their natural habitat at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, situated in the world-renowned 65,000 hectare Sabi Sand Wildtuin in the southern section of the Kruger National Park.

Specially-trained, armed Game Rangers and Trackers will take you on safari in open land rovers - both by day and night - and on walking trails, learning about some 300 bird species and 200 animal species, including lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo, elephant and cheetah, tracked and followed off-road, deep into the African bushveld - a Nature Wonderland.

Green Practices

Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve comprises several of the farms within the Sabi Sand Wildtuin – 5000 hectares of prime game viewing land, three exclusive lodges and an award-winning conservation programme. The immediate and surrounding areas are protected by stringent environmental and conservation regulations with limitations on noise pollution, number of beds per hectare, number of vehicles in use, amongst others.

As far as possible, local labour and materials were used to construct and furnish Sabi Sabi’s three lodges, and are still used in ongoing maintenance. Strict environmental measures are in place throughout the reserve to ensure minimal impact to the environment. When furnishing Earth Lodge, for example, almost all of the wooden furniture (beds, tables, headboards, benches etc.) was made from the wood of trees that had been damaged by floodwater or elephants. Natural, biodegradable materials are used wherever possible. All construction and development work underwent strict environmental impact assessments, which were approved by the Department of Environmental Affairs.

Recent Awards

Sabi Sabi was one of the first properties in the world to receive Fair Trade in Tourism accreditation (run by the World Conservation Union or IUCN).

For more inforation visit Sabi Sabi