filed in Botswana, Solo on Jun.15, 2010
Dawn Perkins is currently on a Solo Leap placement at Desert and Delta Camp in Botswana. “Guests on this morning’s early morning game drive at Leroo La Tau were treated to a unique and exciting sighting. They had come across the only three white rhino in the Makgadikgadi National Park when their guide, Lance, spotted [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Botswana, Destinations, Gap Year, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia on Nov.24, 2009
I don’t know if you know this but Africa is the second largest continent in the world….. but is so amazing and bursting with incredible environments and people it maybe should actually be the size of the whole universe!! Its many things to many people is good old Africa, for some its home, for others [...]
filed in Announcements, Botswana, Destinations, Gap Year on Jul.17, 2009
Are you sat at work reading this right now and hoping for a miracle?? We can save you and get you on a plane out of here pronto!! Gap Years For Adults-they do exist….there is a god after all!! Whether it’s Africa, Asia or Latin America you fancy we have the perfect travel and volunteer [...]
filed in Africa, Botswana on Apr.20, 2007
Dumela everyone! I’m back to Maun, Botswana. This little dusty town in the middle of nowhere definitively stole my heart I had to come back to my African family at Meno a Kwena Camp. I’m not doing much at the moment, just chilling out. I wanted to go back to the school but it is [...]
filed in Africa, Botswana on Jan.07, 2007
I cannot believe it’s 2007 already! I’ve been in Botswana for 3 months now; it’s almost time to move on… At the beginning of December, I finally went to the Okavango delta (THE Botswana tourist attraction) for 2 days. It was worth; it’s breath taking, so beautiful… very green, water and birds everywhere, elephants, etc… [...]
filed in Africa, Botswana on Dec.06, 2006
I’ve got some more exciting lions stories!!! I accompanied 2 clients to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve again last week (to help with the cooking). It was an amazing trip; we saw a lot: lots of Oryx, Wildebeest, springboks, steenboks, 8 cheetahs (yes, 8!!!!) and 7 lions. We found our first 2 male lions during [...]
filed in Africa, Botswana on Nov.05, 2006
Hello! I started working at the school this week. What an African eye-opener! Things move so slowly here- nothing goes fast, except time; the days seem to fly away… And nothing ever, ever goes according to plan. The 1st time I went to school to start the computer, it went down after 10 minutes. The [...]
filed in Africa, Botswana on Oct.15, 2006
Wednesday October 5th, after 22 hours, some little ‘detours’ by London and Jo’burg I finally arrived in sunny Botswana. Oh, and by some miracle, my bags arrived at the same time as me! After a short drive (1.5 hours! Everything is relative isn’t it?), I arrived at the safari camp, Meno a Kwena, my home [...]
