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Your South Africa is wild, remote, dramatic, challenging and never boring. Its horizons, which seem to go on forever, are painted with full sum of your achievements. Fly in to Johannesburg (Joburg), a city bubbling with electricity, and bottle some of it before migrating the Enkosini Wildlife Sanctuary in the Mpumalanga Province. It’s north of Swaziland and southwest of Kruger National Park. Find it? Good. But first, go on an inflatable kayak trip through the Blyde River Canyon.
As you settle into the rustic Enkosini to do the rehabilitation and conservation work you came here for, the feeling that you are part of something larger than yourself begins to take over. It’s hard not to be overcome by the fact that you are out here on the world’s biggest continent, making vital contributions to the future survival of Africa’s wildlife and natural resources. Take it all in. All yourself a moment to be moved. Now back to the action.
Your new base is the Siyafunda Research Centre in Limpopo, where the big 5 roam freely. Sleep with one eye open! Toward the east is cosmopolitan Mozambique. Below is lush and land locked Lesotho. And a stone’s throw is Botswana. Welcome to the real South Africa.
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South Africa
Nature’s zoo. See lions, elephants, rhinos, leopard and buffalo in their natural habitats.
The wildlife sanctuaries we live and work at are located in South Africa’s remote and rural northeast. The wide-open surrounding beauty captivates.
Blyde River Canyon
This is Africa’s largest “green canyon” owing to its subtropical foliage. It’s long, deep and its views are amazing.
Drakensberg Mountain Range
Running125 miles, these “Dragon Mountains” are home to bushmen caves painting, fields of flowers, and gushing waterfalls.
Enkosini Wildlife Sanctuary
It exists to protect Africa’s wildlife populations and habitats and ultimately re-introduce indigenous animals back into the wild.
Johannesburg
This is Africa’s “city that never sleeps.” Museums abound. Restaurants and cafés are full. South African culture is alive.
Siyafunda Research Reserve
A conservation research base within the Makalali Game Reserve. Ssounds of nearby wild game fill the air.
Broadreach in action. Want a glimpse of the freedom of life on a yacht? Or the thrill of diving with sharks in Fiji, surfing in Baja or cresting the ridge above Machu Picchu? Watch our videos to see and hear our adventures firsthand, and start wishing you were there.