Our flagship program is a fully immersive, career-defining experience. In 6 or 12 months, train as a safari guide in South Africa’s Big Five territory. Earn your CATHSSETA NQF2 and NQF4 qualifications under IFGA standards. From 2027, a 10-day Botswana field experience is also included in the Tuli Block, combining travel, training, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Learn everything you need to know about running a successful game farm or game reserve. This hands-on course covers guiding, anti-poaching, wildlife and ecology management, reserve work, and more. With an optional 6-month placement, you’ll build real-world experience and job-ready skills.

Turn your love of nature into purpose during your sabbatical. This immersive course blends guiding, marketing, and lodge operations to give you a full picture of the safari industry. Experience life on a Big Five reserve and, if you choose the 12-month option, gain professional lodge experience through a six-month industry placement.

Make your time off truly meaningful with 6 or 12 months of hands-on conservation training in a Big Five reserve. Get hands-on with wildlife tracking, camera trapping, predator monitoring, habitat work, and conservation technology. Choose the 12-month option to extend your time in the field with a six-month placement at a conservation organisation.

Spend 87 days in the African wilderness both behind the wheel and on foot. This course combines vehicle-based field guiding with walking trails guiding, giving you two unique perspectives on the bush. You can earn your CATHSSETA Nature Site Guide NQF2 qualification, and if you decide to complete a year of guiding experience, you can return for your NQF4 assessment.

This two-month program is a condensed version of our 6-month course, which also allows you to become a fully qualified safari guide –  earning your CATHSSETA NQF2 and NQ4 qualification (if you decide to return for assessment after a year of guiding experience). Gain professional skills while living in the bush, learning about wildlife tracking, ethical guiding, and more.

This is your chance to get hands-on wildlife experience quickly, while having the adventure of a lifetime! Build practical skills in reserve management, track and sign, animal behaviour, and game ranging, all while living within South Africa’s Big Five territory.

Step away from the everyday and immerse yourself in the world of wildlife veterinary science. Set in a Big Five reserve in South Africa, you’ll learn alongside experienced wildlife vets, observe real field interventions, and gain firsthand insight into the challenges of conserving some of Africa’s most iconic species, all within a working conservation landscape.

Explore South Africa’s most wildlife-rich reserves and immerse yourself in nature like never before. Walk within a Big Five game reserve with expert trainers, encounter Africa’s iconic wildlife up close, and learn firsthand about animal behaviour, tracking, trailing, and more. Step beyond the ordinary and into the wild.

An immersive 6-day experience where you move through the African bush entirely on foot, reading tracks, signs, and the subtle stories written into the landscape as you go. Each day takes you deeper into Big Five territory as you build awareness and learn to interpret the natural world in real time. At night, you set up camp in remote wilderness areas and fall asleep under a vast sky of stars in a simple, unforgettable connection to nature.