Your Typical Itinerary
Each day on the project, you will experience a structured schedule. You will generally work in three groups, rotating your activities daily. However, please note that this is intended as a guideline only and may vary to meet the needs of the animals and programme. Your itinerary may be as follows:
07:00: Breakfast - help yourself to cereals, tea and toast
08:00: Morning meeting with the volunteer co-ordinator to plan the day ahead
08:15:Morning activity; one of: enclosure patrol, food preparation, cleaning enclosures and feeding of the animals, assisting with the school or walking or grooming the caracals
10:15: Tea break
10:30: Morning activity 2; one of: border patrol, baby baboon walk, Meerkat walk, sitting with Lucky the Cheetah or large carnivore feeding and cheetah time (if possible)
13:00: Lunch and free time
15:30: Afternoon activity 2; either farm work or a big baboon walk
15:00: Afternoon activity (varies)
17:30: Dinner and free time
19:00:Baboon baby sitting duties
Volunteers should be prepared for the daily schedule to change at short notice to meet the needs of the project.
