Making a Difference – South Africa

October 3-17, 2009 • March 13-27, 2010 • October 9-23, 2010
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We invite you to join our special two-week "get involved" tour, a trip that gives you the opportunity to make a difference, while you explore, discover, and learn about this amazing country.

Here is what you can expect:

Visit rural schools and develop plans to help with computer work stations or the library. Tutor students in English. Visit local orphanages and learn how you can help AIDS orphans. Come up with a plan to get electricity to Zulu villages. Take a group of township kids on a field trip to the ocean or Robben Island. Observe animal rescue. Experience life in the townships; see what it is like to live without electricity or running water. Visit projects active in helping women develop much-needed work skills. Give developing entrepreneurs business or marketing advice and suggestions. You can change the lives and the future of the people you meet!

We limit the travelers on this trip to 14.

Here are some of your travel experience options:

• Spend time in the townships and have lunch with the locals
• Interact or tutor children at an orphanage
• Visit an AIDS research clinic
• Spend an afternoon with a Zulu family in the Drakensberg
• Visit disadvantaged schools - learn what you can do to help
• Overnight in a township B&B

Cape Town Harbor

• Tour facilities and projects of innovative   organizations making a difference
• Meet with women entrepreneurs in Cape Town
• Dine with a local banker, real estate agent, or college professor
• Meet our favorite Sangoma (a traditional healer) in the Knysna township
• Spend time with apartheid writers and reporters
• Meet with local artists and activists
• Stand in Nelson Mandela's old prison cell
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Blue Grotto waterfall

Knysna Elephants

• Ride among rhino, zebra and giraffe on horseback

• Choose an ecotourism safari
• Play with the mystical Knysna Elephants
• Swim under a waterfall
• Sip a fabulous wine & picnic in Stellenbosch
• Walk along the Indian Ocean
• Climb to the top of Table Mountain   
• Laugh at the Simon’s Town penguins
• Spot a whale or two

• Watch dolphins play from your window
• Indulge at a wellness spa

• Splurge with High Tea at the luxurious Mt. Nelson hotel
• Find fabulous and unique gifts while shopping

What it costs

Please contact us for a detailed itinerary.

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