TURN YOUR LIFE’S PASSION INTO A CAREER WITH SHAMWARI FIELD GUIDE TRAINING

Take the chance now. Make your life a career.

A unique opportunity to come face to face with South Africa’s wild and diverse fauna and flora. Let Shamwari Field Guide Training help you be fully prepared for the adventurous and exciting world of guiding.

Shamwari Field Guide Training offers a 6 week course that mirrors the life of a field guide It will impart essential knowledge, life skills and discipline needed to make a professional field guide. The course also offers you the opportunity to obtain the legal qualifications to enter the industry as a Field Guide.

The industry and especially field guiding is experience-based, but there are basic qualifications that you need to be a legal guide and that potential employers recognize.



Shamwari Field Guide Training gives you the opportunity to obtain these requirements. They include FGASA (Field guide Association of Southern Africa) Level 1 theory and practical, THETA ( Tourism, Hospitality and Sport education Authority) NQF 2, First aid level 1.

The course also includes 4x4 driving skills and hospitality (guest etiquette, wine tasting etc), which are vital to enhance the safety and enjoyment of the bush experience for the guests.



Take the chance now. Let Shamwari Field Guide Training help you be fully prepared for the adventurous and exciting world of guiding.

Course Dates for Shamwari Field guide training for 2008

28 January – 9 March
31 March – 11 May
2 June- 13 July
25 August – 5 October
27 October - 7 December


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Shamwari Contact Details:
Contact person: Kirsty Kearney

E-mail : rangers@shamwari.com
Tel: (042) 203 1111
Fax: (042) 235 1224

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