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The Field Camp Experience

Shara Burger | Our Camps

Tanda Tula Field Camp is the raw edge of an African safari. Here, you can allow yourself to softly succumb to the beauty of a wild environment, but without ever letting down your guard completely, for nature can be inhospitable when you least expect it.

Field Camp is more of an experience than a place, it gives you the opportunity to allow nature to be your guide to all the beauty that it has to offer, with absolutely no distractions. A unique encounter that allows you to connect to the environment by completely exposing your emotional and physical self to her elements.

Here you can permit nature to take hold of you and direct you to a place where all your senses are heightened: A place where the quiet of the African bush can be resounding. A place where trepidation and serenity live side by side. A place that can restore and heal you. A place that is in fact an experience.

While following the animal paths of the Greater Kruger Region on foot your mind will calm and you will lapse into a mediative state, absorbing the sounds and smells around you. Walking allows you to truly touch the earth gently, be humbled by the surrounding beauty, and be respectful of her creatures, large and small. With nature by your side, you will take on her stories and learn from her deep knowledge, all the while gifting you with time to reflect and reconnect with yourself.

Being forced from your daily comfort zone means that the Field Camp experience is one that assaults all your senses: physically it is challenging, emotionally it pushes you from contentment to apprehension, joy to fear, frustration to gratitude, all the while expanding your understanding as you learn about the incredible natural surroundings, the trees, plants, insects, and animals.

These wild spaces give you a true sense of freedom and the joy it offers, this hyper-sensory experience will confront your perceptions and leave you wondering how you lived fully before this taste of wildness.

So, be brave. Let go of your fears and challenge yourself. Come and feel the rhythm of real Africa. Explore this journey of simplicity. Field Camp will remind you how to be present and conscious, all the while awakening your emotional and physical awareness and giving you space for self-discovery.

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Booking Terms & Conditions

Rates are quoted in South African Rand (ZAR) and include VAT. Rates are reviewed quarterly and are subject to change.

PROVISIONAL:

Bookings can be held as provisional for up to 14 days, after which the booking is required to release or confirm. A 20% refundable deposit is required to confirm the booking.

CONFIRMED:

Once confirmed with a 20% deposit, the booking is held on a status of ‘confirmed with refundable deposit’ until any of the following becomes true:

  • The booking is cancelled in writing by the agent.
  • Another request is received with overlapping dates. At such a time, the 20% refundable deposit shall be required to be converted
  • into a 20% non-refundable commitment fee. At this stage, the booking status changes to ‘confirmed with commitment.’ • In such an event, Tanda Tula will contact the client and give them the option to either confirm with the non-refundable
  • commitment fee or reschedule their dates, or, failing that, to release the booking.
  • At 60 days prior to arrival, when the full payment is due, the booking status changes to ‘confirmed with full-payment.’

Final payment is due 60 days prior to arrival. Any outstanding balance on the total reservation value shall be required to be settled at 60 days prior to arrival.

All refundable deposits, commitment fees and full payments are held in a separate call account and do not become part of the operational cash flow until the guest has stayed.

The amount stated on the invoice is what must be received by Tanda Tula nett of bank charges.

CANCELLED

Cancellations must be received and acknowledged by Tanda Tula in writing.

‘Confirmed with refundable deposit’: bookings carry no cancellation fees up to 61 days prior to arrival.

‘Confirmed with commitment’ or ‘Confirmed with full-payment’: in the event of any reservation being cancelled after Tanda Tula has issued a confirmation, for any reason other than a WHO-recognised pandemic that impacts the booking, the following cancellation fees will apply:

  • ‘Confirmed with commitment’: if cancelled more than 60 days prior to arrival, the cancellation fee shall be equal to the 20% non- refundable commitment fee.
  • ‘Confirmed with full-payment’: if cancelled between 60 days prior to arrival, the full reservation value is forfeited.

All cancelled bookings that qualify for a refund, will be refunded less a handling fee valued at 5% of the refund amount.

PANDEMIC DISCLAIMER

Tanda Tula will allow postponement of a booking for up to 12 months, if travel is cancelled with a commitment fee or 60 days or less prior to arrival due to a WHO-recognised pandemic directly impacting the guests’ ability to travel (e.g. lockdown, no flights, guest not allowed to board a flight, guest falls ill due to a pandemic and unable to travel).

In the event of a WHO-recognised pandemic directly impacting the ability of Tanda Tula to meet its obligations with respect to the booking, all monies received, including the commitment fee, will be fully refunded (e.g. lockdown in RSA, government restrictions on trade).

Any refund is given at the discretion of Tanda Tula management and will be charge a handling fee valued at 5% of the refund amount.

All travellers are advised to take out fully comprehensive travel insurance with ‘cancellation for no reason’. This insurance must be able to fully cover cancellation of travel fewer than 60 days prior to arrival.

The Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice.