Become a Safari Guide

Get 10% discount on your EcoTraining course

when you complete the contact form at the bottom of this page. 

 

Step out of the ratrace and into African nature during your EcoTraining course!

Do you love nature and are you looking for a meaningful gapyear, sabbatical or carreer switch? Consider becoming a safari guide with EcoTraining (for wildlife enhousiasts and for people who want to make guiding their profession). During the courses, you are fully immersed in the wilderness, you learn about African nature and on top of that you receive professional qualification.

 

✅ Learning by living in the wild

✅ Real connections

✅ Adventure with purpose

✅ Find stillness, focus and clarity

Get your discount code

What is EcoTraining?

EcoTraining is Africa’s pioneering safari-guide training school, operating since 1993 and renowned for producing professionals who serve as guardians of nature. With a presence across multiple countries, EcoTraining offers fully immersive courses set in unfenced wilderness camps in South Africa, Botswana and Kenya. 

Their programs are accredited by leading industry bodies (including Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA) and CATHSSETA) ensuring learners receive recognised qualifications alongside hands-on experience in some of Africa’s most biodiverse game reserves.

Walking safari during EcoTraining course
Life at one of the EcoTraining Camps

Choose your course

EcoTraining offers a wide variaty of different courses both for wildlife enthousiasts and for people who are looking to make a carreer shift into becoming a safari guide. 

  • Carreer courses take from 28 days up to a full 1 year program. These courses prepare you to work in the field of guiding, but also broader in fields like sustainability, hospitality and nature conservation.
  • Wildlife Enthousiast Courses is for travellers who want to deepen their understanding of (African) nature during a shorter course from 6 to 14 days. 
  • Gap years are also offered to students who are looking to have a meaningful experience in nature. 
  • Looking for something even more special? EcoTraining also offers customized wildlife programmes. 
Want to know more?
Check out the course calendar to find oud when the different courses take place and explore all camps to see where you will stay, eat and sleep during the course (spoiler alert: it is pretty epic and immersed in nature!). 
 

How to claim your discount

Step 1

The 10% discount is activated on your EcoTraining course with a discount code. All you need to do to get the code is to complete the form underneath. You will receive an e-mail with the discount code and more information about the different courses you can take at EcoTraining.

Step 2

Once you have the discount code you can redeem it on the website of EcoTraining. This is how that works:

  • Go to EcoTraining.co.za
  • Select the course of your choice
  • Fill out the form to get more information about the course
  • When you reach the question ‘How did you find us?’, select Agent/Ambassador
  • Paste your discountcode there
  • Press ‘Send’ or ‘Contact me

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What graduates say about EcoTraining

“ I really love waking up and seeing what animal tracks were left during the night. Waking up with an elephant standing at my tent was a bit scary, but also very cool. The whole experience here has been fantastic. A word of advice: If you know on the inside it’s for you, do it. Listen to your gut and trust it. Being here has given me peace of mind. It makes me happy and truly soothes my soul. ”
— Sam Bakel, Australia

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“ It has been so refreshing to be somewhere where you live by the sun and weather and not your watch – to totally switch off from the world and not know what will happen next. I have had so many highlights – from seeing hyena on foot, having lions and rhino walk around our vehicle, hearing an elephant right outside my tent and even seeing incredible bush paintings. Every week gets better.”

— Bert Jansen, Belgium

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Need some independent advice and information?

I am Dale and I have been the head instructor at EcoTraining camps in Selati, Karongwe, Makuleke and Mashatu (Botswana). I have taught all the modules in the 1 year Professional Field Guide Course. Therefore, I have a deep understanding of what the program entails. Who better to ask for independent advice when you are in doubt whether this course is for you or when you simply have any question about the program at all?

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