Working Holidays with Horses & Wildlife in Zambia
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for serious horse riders in Zambia!
We offer the amazing opportunity for two volunteers to work with us for up to 3 months. Our working holiday horse volunteer project is targeted at GAP year students and adult riders looking to work with horses for an extended time, develop their riding skills and discover the culture of Zambia.
Each day will be spent in the saddle and at the stables working with our guests, day riders and horses. You will be based between our lodge in Livingstone and the Simalaha Wildlife Conservancy where we operate our horse safaris. Accommodation is clean, comfortable and secure.
Volunteering with Zambian Horseback Safaris is a truly life changing experience, our horse volunteers become part of the family and regularly return.
Volunteer Highlights!
Wake up with the African dawn, ride our horses in the ring and participate in outrides at our stables and in the Simalaha Wildlife Conservancy where we operate horse safaris.
Spend time in the bush and familiarise yourself and the horses with wildlife.
Develop your horsemanship skills in a focused way under the guidance of Doug Evans.
Live on the Zambezi River with Victoria Falls nearby. In your free time, discover everything there is do in and around Victoria Falls, partake in local social activities, visit Chobe National Park, Zambezi National Park and more!
Tell me more!
You will be involved in running a large stable yard on a daily basis. Your focus will be on round-pen work with the horses under Doug’s instruction and bush outrides - gentling the horses and getting them fit for safari. You will be doing all manner of things like sorting out tack and help whereever it is needed.
Candidates for this job need to have extensive background and working experience with horses, a mature outlook on life and a sensitive, kind hand with horses.
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The cost for volunteers will be USD$ 1500.00 per month which will include arrival and departure transfers, meals, accommodation, horse and bush experiences, in-house experiences with guests and the opportunity to spend time in our horse safari camp in the Simalaha Wildlife Conservancy during season. Your duties will include riding out daily on the Zambezi floodplains getting the horses used to giraffe and plains game. We will possibly be riding the horses back up to Simalaha on horseback - an amazing adventure! Visas, flights and all other will be for your own account.
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Ensuite room in a shared 2-Bedroom house with shared lounge/kitchen area.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner daily, tea and coffee, drinking water.
Unlimited Wifi.
Housekeeping services and laundry service every second day.
All riding activities on site.
Opportunity to join in a Polocrosse practice.
Attend our community projects
Opportunity to stay in lodge accommodation from time to time when there are no guests.
Use of company car to visit friends and go out in Livingstone town (valid drivers’ licence required)
Work 5 days a week and have the weekends to explore - unless there are guest riders or visitors in camp in which case you will have one day off a week.
7 days leave within your 3-month stay should you wish to explore Zambia, Zimbabwe or Botswana at your own cost.
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All items of a personal nature.
Medical insurance which includes medivac by road and air.
Flights and visas
Excursions beyond Chundukwa River Lodge and Zambian Horseback Safaris
Drinks are for your own account
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Mature riders who want to develop their horsemanship skills
Must enjoy their own company and be self-motivated
Work and character references
Please provide a short video showing your riding / or horse working skills
Medical insurance
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