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member since Mar 22 2017
South African
Host overview
Antbear Lodge is a sustainable and responsible tourism business situated in the Drakensberg Mountains. What makes us different is that we offer accommodation in a luxury cave. We also built from straw bales, cob, rammed earth and sun dried bricks. We have a few cows for milk, chickens for eggs use our own organic vegetable garden, we bake our own bread and make our own cheese. We also have a few horses and offer horse trails to our guests that are ideal for beginners.
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What we provide
Private room
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Normal Wifi
How we work
The essence of our volunteer program is the unique style of wood work that we do and the alternative building style that we have. Volunteers can look forward to learning the way we do things, working on one of our sustainability programs or alternative building project. Yes we also have horses and you will get to ride and possible even fly in my microlight with me but this must not be considered as the work exchange rather as benefits of staying here.
We offer accommodation and food in exchange for your contribution of effort. This is not about cheap labor and nor is it about cheap holiday options. We prefer to take volunteers for longer than 3 weeks at a time. We dont respect weekends at all and you will find that we often work harder then. Its the nature of the tourism industry.
There is a lot for you to explore in our amazing surroundings and popular tourist sites. This includes hiking in the Drakensberg Mountains, horse trails, viewing bushman rock art or just chilling out with a great book. Volunteers will be hands on and would need to get their hands dirty.
There are difficulties if you decide to come here. There are limited public transport options and there is no access to things like pubs, clubs, movies and sopping centers. We really are located in the middle of nowhere. And then we integrate our volunteers with our lodge which means you always need to put any needs of our guests first. That means things like you get dinner after the guests and if there is a shortage of couch space you need to get up and let them use that space. But I dont really see these issues as huge hardship.
To get involved please send me an letting me know what you would like to do, what sort of skills you have and when and how long you would like to come for. We only have limited capacity so the more notice you can give us the better.
