Destination Guides
Discover places where your stay makes a lasting impact. Each guide connects you with local causes and accommodation that supports the community.
Stories from the Field
Insider guides built around the causes our hosts stand behind. Every stay in these articles gives back.
The Montagu Weekend
Montagu, Western Cape
A 48 hour plan for Route 62: market, mountain tractor, hot springs and where to sleep.
Pietersfontein ConservancyCape Leopard Trust
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Five Village Escapes
Western Cape
Greyton, Stanford, McGregor, Swellendam and Montagu: what each does best, and where to stay.
Greyton Volunteer FirefightersCape Leopard TrustNSRI
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Northern Drakensberg
Northern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal
The Amphitheatre, berg trails and the lodges that fund a rural school in the foothills.
Royal Drakensberg Education TrustBirdLife South Africa
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Zululand
Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal
Sand forest safari lodges around Hluhluwe and Mkuze, backing rhino and community conservation.
Zululand Conservation TrustWildlife ACTEndangered Wildlife Trust
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Penguin Coast
Simon's Town and False Bay, Western Cape
Stays a waddle from Boulders Beach, backing SANCCOB's fight for the African penguin.
SANCCOB
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Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit, Limpopo
Safari camps under the Drakensberg escarpment, funding a bush school and wildlife orphanage.
DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
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The Sea Rescue Coast
South African coastline
Beach towns from Plett to Ballito where your stay backs the volunteers of the NSRI.
National Sea Rescue Institute
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Cape Fold Mountains
Cape Fold Mountains, Western Cape
Kloofs, fynbos and farm valleys where your stay funds leopard research and conservation.
Cape Leopard Trust
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The Upper Zambezi
Livingstone, Zambia
A stilted lodge on the Zambezi above Victoria Falls, with its own foundation working onshore.
Chundukwa Foundation
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Greyton
Greyton, Western Cape
A thatch-and-oak Overberg village whose stays back its volunteer fire crew.
Greyton Volunteer Firefighters
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Montagu
Montagu, Western Cape
Route 62 kloofs and farm stays backing a conservancy where farming meets conservation.
Pietersfontein ConservancyCape Leopard Trust
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Gables and Gravel Roads
Western and Eastern Cape
Heritage farmhouses and village cottages, from the Winelands to the Karoo to Addo.
Prince Albert Skills SchoolWolwekraal Nature ReserveEndangered Wildlife Trust
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Inside the Parks
South Africa
Rest camps and reserve cottages from SANParks, CapeNature and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife.
Endangered Wildlife TrustWilderness Foundation Africa
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