Africa Walking Safaris

10/12/2021

29/10/2021

The experience of walking through a wild landscape in a small band, carrying only essential belongings on your back, is to become a hunter-gatherer of the 21st century. A Lowveld Trails Co. 'Primitive Trail' allows you to hunt for meaning and gather values.

Forage for perspective through images and stories that emerge on Trail. It has the potential to 'Rewild the human imagination'.....

27/10/2021

Completely Immersive Experience | Our Trails offer an all-encompassing exploration into the meaning of wildness. With no tents, no technology and no extras, they allow for an appreciation of simplicity that enables introspection and reconnection with the ecological self.

Participants move through a wild landscape in a small band with only essential belongings on their back. They become Hunter-Gatherers of the 21st Century as they hunt for meaning and gather values.

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27/10/2021

New | Trail Blog | Leave No Trace

Selecting an appropriate campsite is possibly the most important aspect of maintaining a negligible impact within the area of 'Primitive Trail' operations, as it requires the greatest degree of judgement and information.

Deciding where to camp should be based on information about the fragility of soil and vegetation, the likelihood of wildlife interaction, and the assessment of previous impact.

Read more here https://www.lowveldtrails.co.za/leave-no-trace/

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27/10/2021

Storytime | Storytelling is an ancient art that has experienced an energetic revival of late, and for valid reason.

Although story writers have the ability to reach a much greater audience, their medium is static. However beautiful their words may be, they have been cast in stone. In contrast, storytellers reach a much smaller audience, but their craft is dynamic and takes place on a more personal platform as an interactive face-to-face experience.

As a result, the opportunity to connect and have an impact on the audience is far greater. Neuroscience confirms the positive effect storytelling has on the human psyche with regards to thought processes and responses.
A good story, for both teller and listener, releases oxytocin – a feel good, stress busting neurochemical that boosts empathy and compassion. For many modern beings the ancient craft of storytelling now acts as a narrative therapy enabling tellers and listeners to process events in their lives.

Such is the power of storytelling that it not only stimulates emotion and transformation, but the capacity to imagine, understand and connect.

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27/10/2021

"Difficulties strengthen the mind as labour does the body" - Seneca.

Our journeys are all tailormade based on the expectations and needs of our client with an acceptable level of discomfort. To truly see Africa Clearly one must allow vulnerability to her ways.

29/09/2021

The progressive loss of direct human-nature interaction in wild places has become known as the "Extinction of Experience".

The removal of humans from their natural habitat negatively impacts our well-being and compromises any efforts made towards conservation.

By reintroducing humans to their natural habitat in a meaningful way, is striving towards the 'conservation of experience'.

Our purpose is to facilitate direct human-nature interaction in wild places, for personal, social and wilderness benefits.

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09/09/2021

Space Available | Trails Guide Mentorship Trail | 30 Sept

Lowveld Trails Co. offers dedicated three-night ‘Primitive Trails’ for aspiring Trails Guides with the minimum required FGASA (The Field Guides Association of Southern Africa) qualifications. The objectives of the Trails Guide mentorship process is to, 1) facilitate the logging of walking hours and potentially dangerous game encounters under an experienced mentor, 2) expose junior Trails Guides to the ethos of multi-day Primitive Trails, and 3) to propagate a holistic Trails Guide culture across all guiding sectors. These valuable hours and encounters can be signed off towards FGASA Trails Guide qualifications.

We furthermore offer guests (non Trail Guides) the opportunity to go behind the scenes and observe first hand how Trails Guides are trained and mentored. These ‘observer’ spots also available on our 'Trails Guide Mentorship Trails'

07/09/2021

"We have forgotten where we have come from, that we are biologically and psychologically bound to the Earth and all living things, that we are a part of the web of life.

As for the human psyche and its relationship to our animal origins, I have two questions: whose permission are we waiting for to enter that 'uncertain ground' where the voice of our wild relatives can be heard? How long is it going to take to acknowledge that there is indeed a menagerie within each of us...a wolf, a hyena, a lion, a wild man and a wild woman?"

- Ian McCallum

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17/08/2021

"Reconnect with Nature" has become the mantra for addressing humanity's severance from the natural world. This separation has also become known as the 'Extinction of Experience' and is widely viewed as the main driver behind the current global environmental crisis. But how do we go about reconnecting with our natural habitat in order to combat this crisis?

One of the most effective ways in which to do so is through a 'Meaningful Nature Experience'. A direct human-nature interaction in a wild place. The experience often leads to a heightened sense of awareness or consciousness. The realisation that everything is connected, that our natural habitat is the condition for life and our sanity.

It is through this realisation that our thoughts and actions will result in more 'Ecologically Responsible Behaviour'.



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04/08/2021

02/08/2021

Only Lowveld Trails Co. offers a regenerative experience that rewilds the human imagination and our natural habitat.

As our worlds become hyper-connected and overcomplicated, Lowveld Trails Co. gives you the ability to disconnect from the 'noise' and spend time engaging directly with wild spaces. Our years of experience and training have provided us with the hard and soft skills necessary to ensure a safe, engaging and meaningful human-nature interaction.

Rediscover your wild Nature.

27/07/2021

The progressive loss of direct human-nature interaction in wild places has become known as the "Extinction of Experience".

The removal of humans from their natural habitat negatively impacts our well-being and compromises any efforts made towards conservation.

By reintroducing humans to their natural habitat in a meaningful way, Lowveld Trails Co. is striving towards the 'conservation of experience'.

Our purpose is to facilitate direct human-nature interaction in wild places, for personal and wilderness benefits.