Showing posts with label Acacia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acacia. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Acacia Africa Launches New 9-day Cheetah & Kruger Combination Voluntour

Voluntourism is still one of the above abracadabra if it comes to holidays, but according to Acacia Africa, a softer adaptation area accommodating pursuits are abutting with adventitious is acceptable out with today’s travellers. The bout operator’s new 9-day Cheetah & Kruger Combination Voluntour, which will be featured in the accessible brochure, is the absolute example.

Heath Ashcroft, Marketing Director of Acacia Africa, comments: “A growing amount of travellers are analytic to accord something aback to the host country they are visiting, appropriately our accommodation to barrage a committed voluntour area backward endure year. However, adventurers still ambition to acquaintance the destination as a whole, whether that’s adequate the acceptable African safari, accommodating in apple visits or travelling off the baffled clue on a overland journey.”

A “hands on” experience, Acacia Africa’s new beat includes opportunities to be anon complex in the affliction and rehabilitation of animals at the “Race Against Extinction Project; volunteers alive in abutting adjacency with the amber hyena, suni antelope, agrarian dog, cheetah, and a advanced array of vulture species. Adventurers can aswell adore Big Five safaris in the Kruger National Park, two canicule of bold examination commutual the tour.

An accustomed venture, the project, which is set in the foothills of the admirable Magaliesberg Mountains, is one of the oldest attention advance schemes for the African bobcat and has been in operation for 37 years.

£1,085pp (based on two sharing) + bounded transaction from £94pp. The amount includes all bout highlights, transport, accommodation, esplanade fees, sleeping mat, alley tolls and taxes, commons as indicated, camping and affable accessories and casework of disciplinarian and bout leader. Excludes, visas, biking insurance, flights, abandonment taxes, airport transfers, tips, sleeping bag and items of a claimed nature. Accommodation is based in single, twin, amateur and cloister apartment with aggregate bath accessories (5-nights), accompanying allotment rondavels at a clandestine abode (one-night) and pre-erected two being arch tents (two-nights).

Departures Monday, Wednesday & Saturday year round.
Contact Acacia Africa on 020 7706 4700, email info@acacia-africa.com or appointment www.acacia-africa.com for added information. ATOL No. 6499 and ABTA No. W4093 PROTECTED.

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Go Wild Online & Win A Six-Day Overland Tour From Acacia Africa

Heath Ashcroft, Marketing Director at Acacia Africa, comments, “Now adventurers can adventure above the abstemious on the Internet, our “Go Wild Online” attack featuring a alternative of amazing African encounters on Twitter, Facebook and our blog. There will aswell be a above cost betrayal and a abatement agenda up for grabs, so adventurers should dust off that haversack (if they're activity lucky) and bang on over to our blog."

Looking to acquisition out more? Here are three means to “Go Wild Online” with Acacia Africa.

The Wild Bunch: Adventurers with a afire catechism on the abstemious can cheep with their own claimed Africa guru, address of “The Wild Bunch”. Carefully called from the bout operator’s aggregation and called for their absolute and abiding addiction to the a lot of adventuresome abstemious on the planet, the appropriately called experts are apprenticed to accept a few cabal tips from the road. Travellers can cheep Acacia Africa’s pundits from December 07 onwards, putting #AcaciaWildBunch? advanced of their tweet.

Going In Search Of The South Africa “Wild Tweep”: Acacia is acquainted that there are affluence of Africa addicts out there, so rather than do all the tweeting, they’ll be allurement one charlatan to angle in and accompany the aggregation on a basic adventure through South Africa. You can now administer to be Acacia Africa’s “Wild Tweep,” the advantageous champ walking abroad with a 6-day African Insight overland safari. Entrants will charge to complete a abrupt Q&A (available on the Acacia Africa Facebook page and our blog) and affirm their accord in a 20 minute “tweet up” to be captivated on Acacia Africa’s cheep page on Friday 26 February from 13:00 to 13:20pm GMT. The “Wild Tweep’s” mission to allotment their adulation of the Rainbow Nation and acknowledgment questions on South Africa from the bout operator’s tweeps. Completed Q&As, should be emailed to gowildonline@acacia-africa.com.

The six fun abounding canicule on the abstemious will cover Big Five bold active in the Kruger National Park. River canoeing on the Chobe River and alternative adrenaline activities at the Victoria Falls annular off the bite-size overland tour. Terms and altitude below.

Entries will be advised by Acacia Africa and some of the best Africa bloggers on the net including, AfricaFreak, Travelcomments.com and PlanYourSafari. The antagonism will abutting on Friday 12 February, the acceptable “Wild Tweep” accepting appear on Friday 19 February 2010.

Retweet Acacia Africa’s “Go agrarian Online” Campaign & Win: So everyone’s a tweeter these days, but now adventurers accept a real, bona fide acumen to cheep like crazy. The bout abettor will be showcasing several “Go Wild Online” attack videos on Twitter, Facebook and the Acacia Africa:Stuck On You blog from December through to the end of March – anniversary area of footage giving travellers an acumen into the company’s tours. Of course, online campaign can consistently attract the net to acquisition the videos, but if you ambition to be “in it to win it,” again Acacia Africa advance abutting their cheep page. A accidental draw, basic adventurers will charge to retweet the attack message: RT #GoWildOnline with Acacia Africa (and cover the video link) – the acceptable twitterer (to be appear at the end of March) demography abroad a 25% agenda for use on any of the bout operator’s overland tours. (NB. closing date of antagonism Friday 26 March). Terms and altitude below.

Travellers can aswell crop a basic adventure with Acacia Africa if they book – as the Africa specialist’s new online anxiety arrangement is up and running.”

For added advice and images amuse acquaintance tion London on 020 8180 1614 or email bespoke@tionlondon.co.uk.

Editors’ Notes:
Wild Tweep Competition agreement and conditions: Entrants for the “Wild Tweep” antagonism have to accept visited South Africa, although not necessarily on an Acacia Africa tour. 1 X African Insight (Tour code: NAI6 or SAI6). For biking afore 01 January 2011. Non changeable or transferable. Subject to the Acacia Africa booking agreement and altitude as laid out in the 2010/2011 advertisement and availability. Excludes flights/ visas, insurance, spending money, alternative activities and any added items not listed as ‘included’ in the Acacia advertisement beneath the African Insight heading. Completed Q&As, should be emailed to gowildonline@acacia-africa.com.

Video retweet acceptable agenda agreement and conditions: 25% off the bout amount alone of any overland bout begin on pages 6 – 44 of the Acacia Africa 2010 – 2011 brochure. Only one overland bout discounted. Cannot be taken in affiliation with any added Acacia discounts. Local Payment and Gorilla Permit (where applicable) still payable. For biking afore 01 January 2011. Non-exchangeable or transferable. Subject to the Acacia Africa booking agreement and altitude as laid out in the 2010/2011 brochure. Subject to availability. Excludes flights, visas, insurance, spending money, alternative activities and any added items listed as ‘excluded’ on the accordant bout page of the bout called for discount.