Learn Safari & Wildlife Guiding in Okavango Delta / Mashatu

Honest level: Apprentice -> Professional Guide — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Okavango Delta / Mashatu

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• EcoTraining (Mashatu camp)
  55-day Field Guide Course
  A field-guide training provider whose 55-day course at its Mashatu camp in Botswana's Tuli Block delivers the FGASA Apprentice Field Guide (NQF2) qualification through immersion across remote wilderness camps.
  https://www.ecotraining.co.za/
• African Guide Academy
  FGASA Apprentice Field Guide (NQF2) course
  Botswana's first private guide-training school, registered on both FGASA and BQA platforms, running Okavango Delta field-guide courses covering ecology, tracking, rifle handling and guiding by foot, boat and mokoro.
  https://www.guidetrainingcourses.com/

The credential

FGASA Professional Field Guide (NQF2) + Apprentice Trails Guide · Certifying body: FGASA (Field Guides Association of Southern Africa) / CATHSSETA; KPSGA in East Africa

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Safari & Wildlife Guiding

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.