Up until last month my greatest vacations were a three week photographic safari in Kenya and hiking up Mount Everest. Last month we did the Ultimate Lion Experience. That trip blew away both of those trips. It wasn't even close. We had unlimited access to lion cubs. We took full advantage of playing with cubs, only 2-4 months old, in an enclosure that was not open to the public at the time. Lion cubs needed...

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Im going to South Africa in January 2013 strting with the endangered species program near port eliz, really excited as I then have a week traveling and following that im going to the Ultimate lion experience, following that im traveling around SA for 2 months so would be great to hear from anyone doing anything similar? :)

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I recently came back from an amazing 2 and a half week trip to South Africa. I travelled from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town and had some awesome adventures along the way... but this blog post is going to focus on Cape Town, and my time at the volunteer projects i to i works with in the area. I’d arranged to meet up with Ali, Astrid and Thami – the in-country team who are based...

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Hello! I'm spending 4 weeks on this program in Jan 2013! I know its early still but is there anyone else going on this one? I'M SO EXCITED :D

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I received this email from returned volunteer J and wanted to share it with you, as it's such a good account of her time at the Live With Lion Cubs project in South Africa! J is blind and had an amazing time at the project :) "I thought I would write an account of my trip :) I met up with a friend I had been emailing for about 3 weeks. It turned out she...

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It's only two days now until I leave England and head to South Africa for 7 weeks! I am going to be teaching children to read in Cape Town for 4 weeks and then travelling around South Africa meeting family for 3 weeks! I hope I have everything ready! I look forward to writing on here about my experiences! Naomi x

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I have a £1,470(GBP) credit note which can be exchanged for holidays booked via www.i-to-i.com. Am selling as have had to cancel my trip due to work commitments. Happy to offer them at a discount of about 33% so hoping for offers around £990(GBP). The credit notes are valid as long as you book the trip by 17th December 2012. Please contact me at anil.arora151@googlemail.com if interested. Thanks Anil

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We've received another update from Madi, who's currently at the Help Raise Lions and Tigers project in South Africa :) Read on... It has been a very very busy week! Because I have been working 14-18 hour days and not really slept for the last few nights, I might just dot point some of my more exciting news! - went to an elephant sanctuary on Wednesday and fed, walked with (holding trunk), rode and got...

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We’ve received an update from our Monkey Sanctuary project in South Africa today, and wanted to share it with you! Read on for more monkey madness than you can shake a banana at... New Arrivals! We have had 4 monkeys arrive this month - two of them being 1yr old female Ricky & sub-adult male Jamba. They are currently in quarantine and have had health checks before we can put them with other monkeys. Our...

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We received an awesome email today, from Maddie who is currently in South Africa taking part in the Help Raise Lions and Tigers project. It's such a great read that we had to share Maddie's adventures with you... prepare for jealousy... "Finally I was on my way to the project; when I found out they actually are inundated with cubs at the moment (they don't always have them but right now there's HEAPS!) including 6-week-old...

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