Surf, Turf & Volunteer

Surf, Turf & Volunteer Expedition (21 Days)

GBP1799.00

Week 1 – Surf-Kayaking Intro Course

Surf-Kayaking is a truly awesome new offering on the adventure sports platter. Take the best elements of surfing and white-water kayaking, add them together and surf-kayaking is the end result.

Cape-Town has some awesome breaks from deep barrelling reefs of the Atlantic to the gentle rollers of False Bay. Being a Peninsula Cape-Town also has 3 distinct surf zones, meaning there’s almost always something going.

Daily Itinerary (In Brief)*

Day 1: Arrive in Cape-Town. Welcome Braai.
Day 2: Surf-Kayaking. Pool Day (Eskimo Roll).
Day 3: Surf-Kayaking. Silvermine-Resevoir (Flat-Water Tricks).
Day 4: Table Mountain Hike (Skeleton Gorge).
Day 5: Surf-Kayaking. Beach Day (managing the surf zone).
Day 6: Surf-Kayaking. Beach Day (free session).
Day 7: Sea-Kayaking Penguin trip (AM) Llandudno Beach Day (PM).

*NB* Please note this daily itinerary is not fixed and varies from time to time depending on the wind and surf conditions

What You Will Experience

Kayaking
Hiking
Beach / Swimming

Accommodation

Your accommodation will be a lodge that specialises in hosting visitors from overseas. Meals are prepared for you. Electricity is available. The lodge hosts a large number of overseas visitors and is a great environment to meet new people from completely different cultures.

Meals

All meals will be provided, packed lunches on days when you won’t see much of your accommodation.

Week 2 – Sand Boarding and Surfing

The ultimate surf and turf experience. Surfing is a sport that captures the imagination of millions, the success of the Surf Brands adequately displaying this. Sand boarding on the other hand is a little bit off the mainstream track but a lot of fun. Because part of the adventure is being able to explore on your own, there are two free days to allow you allowing you time to get a feel for Cape-Town at your own pace.

Daily Itinerary (In Brief)*

DAY 8: Rest/Exploratory Day.
Day 9: Sand-Boarding 101
Day 10: Sand-Boarding 101
Day 11: Rest Day/ Exploratory day.
Day 12:Surfing Day 1.
Day 13: Participants choice: Sand-boarding or Surfing.
Day 14: Rest/Exploratory Day.

*NB* Please note this daily itinerary is not fixed & varies according to surf conditions.

What You Will Experience

Sea/Kayaking
Visit to a penguin Colony
Surfing
Sand-Boarding
Time to explore

Accommodation

Meals

All meals will be provided, packed lunches on days that you won’t see much of your accommodation.

Week 3 – Volunteer Project

Cape-Town is one of the Worlds’ most beautiful cities, frequented by tourists across the world. Most don’t really get a feel for the city and its inhabitants. The popular tourist sites are beautiful but they hide the reality of Cape-Town and the debilitating poverty that the majority of the city’s residents live in.

The townships of Cape-Town grow daily as people flock from the outlying rural areas in search of employment.

We work with a variety of projects that will allow you to really understand post-apartheid South-Africa and her people.

We match your volunteer trip to the charity that most needs your help at the time of your visit. You could find yourself building houses in the townships one day, assisting in a soup kitchen, helping out at the Cape Refugee Centre (CRC), an AIDS orphanage or teaching English to underprivileged school kids.

During your week you will be exposed to the local language, Xhosa, so you will get the opportunity to try your language skills!

Daily Itinerary (In Brief)*

Day 15: Arrive in Cape-Town. Welcome barbeque, orientation and Xhosa lessons.
Day 16: Township tour. Xhosa lessons.
Day 17: Volunteer work. Xhosa lessons.
Day 18: Volunteer work. Xhosa lessons.
Day 19: Volunteer work.
Day 20: Volunteer work.
Day 21: Depart Cape-Town.

What You Will Experience

The real SA
Challenges
Emotion
Fulfillment