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Field Guide Training Course South Africa
If during your gap year, you want to travel Africa, and support yourself by working there, then gaining qualifications in Field Guiding will help to find you work all over the amazing continent of Africa, and you’ll meet people who are travelling through it from all over the world. You be trained in a safari based lodge in one of South Africa’s many stunning locations.
The Field Guide CourseThis is a highly serious course for one year, designed to give you a respected qualification and license as a field guide for nature reserves. During the course you will receive six months of practical training. Once you’ve done this, you’ll be placed at one of the leading South African Safari lodges to gain another six months experience working in “real life” situations. By the end of this work placement you’ll be able to identify and track most of Africa’s wildlife.
Your practical instruction will include lessons on the following:
- Game counts
- Field research
- Erosion control
- Patrolling
- Water point maintenance
A very flexible course, it has to cope with the constantly changing and volatile environments of Africa. You could end up working on projects capturing wildlife or being a tourist guide on a reserve for a number of days. The course is fairly open so that you may be able to take advantage of opportunities that will invariably spring up during your time on it.
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Programme Overview
Price:
2008: 12 months - $14,059/€10,999
2009: 12 months - $14,339/€11,999
How to book & pay:
$339/€259 deposit to secure place, balance due 10 weeks before departure
What is included?
Accommodation & meals
Transfers
All training (inc. practical & theory tuition, books & exam fees)
Qualification at the end, if achieved |
What is not included?
Flights
Extra activities not on itinerary
Travel Insurance |
Programme Summary:
You’ll be trained for six months to look after all types of African wild-life as well as gaining skills in tasks such patrolling reserves, rescuing wild life and helping to maintain important water points. At the end, you’ll be able to find paid work in the continent of Africa.
Arrival dates:
March and September |
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