South Africa Holidays

Sun International have created a luxury resort complex at Sun City just 140 kilometres drive north west of Johannesburg. This is an ideal place to relax at the end of your safari and unwind. Facilities include casinos, nightly entertainment, cabaret acts, the Palace of the Lost City theme park, two 18 hole golf courses and the nearby Pilanesberg National Park.

Situated on the lakeshore of Sun City, the Cabanas offers a relaxed, informal holiday ambience ideal for families. Facilities include 380 guest rooms, a choice of restaurants and bars, a large swimming pool including a children's pool with lifeguard, mini-golf, mini cars, bumper boats, trampolines and a fully equipped children's playground. There is also a bird aviary, small animal enclosure and mini train.

A superb short safari, staying in a lovely private lodge situated in the Balule Reserve, a 40,000 hectare reserve in the Greater Kruger National Park. Enjoy game drives in open 4WD safari vehicles to search for the Big Five and more.

Get up close and personal with the animals and get involved in the daily running of the centre. Prepare to flex your muscles and get a tan whilst assisting with the building of new enclosures and checking the state of game park fences so that nothing can get in or out.

You can expect to get involved with preparing food for the animals - this is important as there are many cubs, and without the volunteers there would not be enough staff to prepare these for the ever growing animals. Your help is also needed in cleaning out enclosures; due to the number of animals, a lot of help is needed to complete these tasks as well as feeding and preparing the food for the animals.

You can even get involved in bottle feeding if you want to.

This elephant park was born from the struggle of elephants in the Knysna Forest who, for many years, were able to roam freely in their natural forest habitat. Today, sadly their habitat has been encroached to such an extent that few now live in the wild.

The founders of this project grew up in the local area and were deeply affected by the plight of the local elephants - help out by bottle feeding orphaned baby elephants that need some extra TLC, providing feed for the adult elephants, observing and researching them and general park maintenance. Extra weeks $380*.

As a volunteer you will be assisting with sports activities at a school in the disadvantaged community of Ocean View. There are approximately 1200 children and only 34 teachers at the school and although the school would really love to be in a position to employ a full time sport specialist they are unable to do so for financial reasons. You will be able to select the sports that you are interested in coaching, whether it is football, netball or athletics. You also have the opportunity to introduce other games and sports, but please note that the equipment may not necessarily be available.

If you wish to coach a different sport, you can bring some basic equipment with you which would be great if you could also donate to the programme. Children from the disadvantaged communities often have very little. Most children have never played football with a real ball before and usually use footballs made up of crushed plastic bags that have been tied together. Just by being able to organise the a game of football with a real ball will make such a big difference to the children! Extra weeks from just $210*