Safari lodges play a key role in protecting and conserving some of the world’s most endangered and magnificent species and have a ripple effect on their surroundings, including supporting communities, empowering women, and ensuring wildlife & environment conservation – one of the many reasons why safaris have such a deep impact on travellers from all over the world. Many safari lodges have guest-funded conservation projects. These projects help ensure that African nature and the diverse wildlife on this continent are protected, and still here when you are able to share in their magnificence.
Timeless Africa Safaris are the Matchmakers of humans
The Human Impact of travel to Africa:
Our concept is to showcase the destination of South Africa through the extraordinary citizens that visitors could meet. When our clients leave this is what they remember the most – The Human Impact. It is about the impact these citizens have on visitors and the impact visitors have on the destination.
- Travel changes people through meaningful encounters in unique destinations.
- Travellers are generally most transformed by the people they meet, real South Africans, who are an integral part of experiencing the destination, are profoundly impacting the world around them.
- At the same time, travellers make lasting impacts on the people and places they visit by listening to life stories, sharing ideas and becoming actively involved. South Africa is one of the few destinations globally where tourism has a positive impact on the environment, conservation, habitats, communities, as well as the economy. The wildlife industry is a global benchmark for using tourism to protect the earth.
- In turn, visitors leave with new insights and lifelong memories of the people they met, the communities they engaged, the land they traversed and their own humanity.
- Travellers can connect to local change creators, immersing them in the melting pot of cultures, languages and histories of South Africa in four key themes: Art and Politics, Conservation and Environment, Innovation, Education and Community.
Street Art tours in townships hosted by Juma - Art and Politics are often controversial, never dull. A politically-aware artist, a satirical cartoonist, a township gallerist, a former political prisoner who overlay their personal stories on places like Alexandra Township in Johannesburg and Robben Island in Cape Town.
- Conservation and environment are more accessible and activated here than anywhere else on earth. Meet a young man who teaches sustainability through vegetable planting in the cities, a conservationist driving saving the rhinos and the all-female ranger team at Chobe who drive only electric game vehicles.
- For mind-expanding innovation, connect with an experienced curator who is redefining how we view the city of Cape Town, an award-winning chef showcasing inconceivable lifestyles through township living and cuisine and a family of 7 sisters creating groundbreaking wines.
4Roomed Restaurant - Education and community create brighter futures. A youth coach and guide showcasing the life, beauty and romance of a Joburg township, a team leader who inspires young artists and a reformed prisoner who has set up a non-profit computer coding college in the townships.
- By connecting with these inspiring people, a journey to South Africa has the power to stretch the human experience and invite the extraordinary and leave a long-lasting impact.