October, November and December are quieter times for our volunteer placements (except the lions, which are always busy) so if you would like to volunteer in Africa during these months we would like to thank you by offering some exciting extra free trips. Full details are available from this free leaflet download but you could, [...]

The African lion conservation projects at Antelope Park in Zimbabwe and Livingstone, Zambia are always popular – and have been made even more so this year by the TV programme covering this important work. The result is that volunteer placements for July and August are practically full, and September has only a few places left. [...]

For this post I wanted to take a look at our volunteering in Africa with a focus on the African wildlife photography adventure in St Lucia. Full details can be found here, but I thought a brief overview might help. Whether you are an experienced amateur wildlife photographer looking for the ultimate photography experience or [...]

Volunteering Africa has excitement and adventure for sure, but sometimes it can be a challenge and occasionally it’s hard work. You deserve some compensations for the valuable volunteer work you will be doing. So how would you fancy coming home to this at the end of a hard day? Or waking up here in the [...]

Gap year volunteering in Africa is becoming more and more popular. Although all kinds of people volunteer in Africa, of all ages and from all kinds of backgrounds, it’s perhaps gap year students that are the area of most growth. That’s not really surprising when you consider the opportunity. Peope are more keenly aware of [...]

The folks at YourAfricanAdventure.com and Chance of a Lifetime Travel (COLT) would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We would particularly like to thank those people who volunteered in Africa over the past year, whether that was working with wildlife, helping with local African [...]