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ACTIVITIES

The African Schoolroom can organise a range of activities to suit your interests, budget and timeframe. Most tours mix a number of activity types, ensuring a memorable and meaningful visit to South Africa. You can also view our Sample Itinerary.

Service Projects

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  • Work at a township school  or orphanage – interact with children (reading programmes, sport, ball skills, games), paint classrooms, murals on walls, prepare and plant vegetable gardens, build playground equipment etc

  • Depending on time and budget, build a classroom, dormitory, kitchen, library, community centre, house for a destitute family etc

Community and Culture

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  • Tour of Soweto (visit Mandela’s house, Hector Pieterson memorial etc)

  • Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg

  • Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

  •  Bicycle tours of Soweto and Zwelisha townships

  • Township tour of Kanyamazane, Mpumalanga (including a visit to an orphanage, sangoma [traditional healer], Zulu dance group etc)

  • Visit a private / independent school

  • Visit a centre for physically and mentally disabled children

  • Swaziland day trip or overnight trip

  • Visit from an African choir

Wilderness Experiences

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Educational camps, training courses and walking safaris take place in Big Five reserves in pristine wilderness areas, led by highly trained guides and rangers.​

Adventure / “Adrenalin’’ activities

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  • Big Swing

  • White water rafting / gecko-ing / kloofing

  • Abseiling

  • Hiking

  • Rock climbing

  • Horse riding

  • Aerial cable trail

  • Tree-top challenge obstacle course

Conservation / Wildlife

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  • Elephant Whispers - elephant interaction

  • Chimp Eden (Jane Goodall Centre) – chimpanzee sanctuary

  • Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre

  • Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre

  • Reptile park

Geology / Geography

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  • The Geotrail

  • Sudwala Caves

  • Gold panning

  • Go down a gold mine

Arts

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  • Ceramic pottery studios (with the option of making an item of pottery)

  • Tony Frederiksson, driftwood sculptor

  • The Artists’ Press, a world-renowned lithography studio that has hosted many famous artists

  • Various different artist studios

  • Bronze art foundry

Miscellaneous

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  • Drumming

  • Stargazing

  • Visit by choir

  • “Walking in another man’s shoes” exercise

  • Township church service

  • Movie evenings (South African themed DVDs)

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