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Specialist African Safaris - More than just a game drive
Old Canvas Expeditions runs some of the best safaris and expeditions Southern Africa has to offer. We are uniquely positioned to add amazing value to your vacation, holiday or safari. How do we do this? We take African and wildnerness experiences and elevate them way above the ordinary, into what could be a life-changing event.
We have put together the most amazing educational and adventure packages which will take you out of the usual tourist mould and into the realm of the professional. Experts have been carefully selected to run workshops at various lodges throughout Southern Africa, with the aim of informing, educating and perhaps more importantly, providing the most memorable experiences to be had anywhere in Africa. Read more about our various educational safaris below:
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PHOTOGRAPHY Roger and Pat de la Harpe are perhaps the most well known photographers and authors in Southern Africa, with 20 books to their name. They also run Africa Imagery image bank and have been conducting photographic safaris for a number of years with great success. By joining one of our safaris we guarantee vastly improved photographs and insights into the relatively new digital world of digital photography, including image manipulation with the latest software. Read more..... |
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ART - DRAWING AND PAINTING ON SAFARI Andre de la Rosa has been painting for as long as she can remember and is now sharing her skills with those who want to learn to paint. She uses a technique developed by the Old Masters to produce amazing wildlife and still-life pictures. Who can not be enticed by the thought of learning to paint under the spreading boughs of a fever tree somewhere on the African savannah? Read more..... |
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| ROMANCING THE STONE - ADVENTURES IN THE EARTH SCIENCES Gerald Davie has been a consulting geologist for over 20 years and has worked in Europe, Africa and the Middle East on a host of different projects. However his passion is to Romance the Stone and provide insights into the fascinating history of Earth. South Africa indeed has some of the finest geology in the world and we will visit dinosaur sites, fly past the second highest water fall on Earth and journey over the highest road in Africa to the World's highest diamond mine. Incandescent lavas, fossilised deserts and dinosaur habitats marked the end of the supercontinent of Gondwana. Read more..... |
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| ANTHROPOLOGY & ROCK ART The World Heritage Site of uKhahlamba, more commonly known to some as the Drakensberg, is the repository of the greatest and oldest collection of rock art anywhere on Earth. The entire region is steeped in the spirituality of the San people who populated this area for thousands of years and who left a vast repertoire of rock painting. They documented their lives, the spirit and natural world and how the latter two were seamlessly joined and accessed by the shamans of uKhahlamba. Frans Prins has been studying and recording the history and art of the San for a number of years and is a consultant to the World Heritage Site and a number of other scientific bodies, and as such is the ideal person to lead our tours. Read more..... |
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| BIRDING Dr Dave and Sally Johnson are our birding experts, and are well qualified to do so, having been the official ornithologists for the then Natal Parks Board. Old Canvas Expedition's birding safaris are run in some of South Africa's top birding locations, including the World Heritage Site of Isimangaliso/St Lucia Wetland area. This site is the largest wetland area in Africa and is alive with birds and wildlife. Read more..... |
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CULINARY SAFARIS
Megan Harker runs a highly succesful cooking school in Durban and with these skills and her knowledge of the corporate world is the ideal person to run our cooking safari workshops. She loves to play with food and will get you playing along with her. Being on safari all the meals will have a safari camp overtone. Read more..... |
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