Botswana Program
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Botswana is one of Africa’s last great wilderness areas, site of the Kalahari Desert, home of the “Bushmen” and the lush marshes, rivers, and islands that make up the Okavango Delta.
- Explore the Okavango Delta in a traditional mokoro
- Travel through mystical desert landscapes
- Learn survival Setswana language skills while living with a local family
- Watch lions, giraffes, and elephants in their natural environment on a camping safari
Orientation at the Mokolodi Reserve
Spend five days learning about life in Botswana, participating in Setswana language classes, taking game drives, visiting the wild animal infirmary, and exploring the markets and cultural sites of the capital, Gaborone.
Homestay and Community Service
Experience life in rural Botswana during your 20-day village stay. While exploring the community and participating in social events, continue Setswana classes and roll up your sleeves to contribute your energy to important community development projects.
Sample host community: Otse, Mmankgodi
Sample activities: Assist at local schools; visit diamond mines and a local wildlife reserve; play in a community soccer game; learn about HIV/AIDS education; meet traditional healers.
Sample work projects: Paint and renovate the village school; build community vegetable gardens; engage in small-scale construction at an area clinic.
Camping Safari
Travel with your group across the magnificent Kalahari, home of the San people, and into the Okavango Delta, teeming with wildebeest, elephants, zebras, hippopotamuses, lions, baboons, and countless other species. Camp in the wilds of the Chobe National Park. Paddle a mokoro, a traditional dugout canoe, through sections of the delta with local guides to learn more about the plants and animals of this inland waterway. An evening around the campfire is the perfect ending to your journey through Botswana.
"I bartered with merchants on the streets of Gaborone, watched elephants in Kasane, rode the waters of the Okavango, and fell in love with my homestay community.”
-- John Kelley, Miami, Florida
Program Information:
Code: BCS
Features: Community Service, Ecological/Outdoor Adventure
Prerequisites: None
Dates: June 27, 2010 -
August 05, 2010
Depart/Return: New York
Fee: $6,700
*
*(International airfare included)
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PROGRAM FEATURES:
Community Service, Ecological/Outdoor Adventure
DURATION:
5 weeks
PREREQUISITE:
None
DATES:
June 27, 2010 -
August 05, 2010
FEE:
$6,700
*
*(International airfare included)
DEPART / RETURN:
New York
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