Lalapanzi Adventure Centre

A wilderness retreat and adventure camp with customized teambuilding activities for all ages and fitness levels. If you are planning, or looking for things to do for a school camp, outing for leadership identification, class outing, sport team building weekend or a motivational outdoor office team building trip. Getaway for a weekend or few days to Lalapanzi, a fun way to improve your class and company's communication skills, morale, trust and cohesiveness and strengthen the teamwork of your group, build team spirit and an atmosphere of cooperation.

Lalapanzi adventure centre, a wilderness retreat and adventure camp with customized teambuilding and opportunities abound for rock climbing, horse riding, bouldering, obstacle course, kloofing, canoeing, raft building, orienteering, paintball, abseiling, hiking, bird-watching & environmental exploring. At Lalapanzi we have the ideal setting for providing all types of adventurous activities.

The centre is aimed at school outings, office function and church getaways and youth camps as well as corporate teambuilding and end-of-year outings. The activities offered are geared towards the age group and ability of the group concerned. Our facilities are an ideal outdoor venue for school leadership camps, sports teams and business tours and designed to maximise the opportunities of being in an outdoor learning setting, working on both personal and team strategies. Teachers with their students and business colleagues are challenged with new and demanding activities which are facilitated to help them to develop and improve their personal skills and promote active and healthy lifestyles. The physical challenges of life in the outdoors help to develop self-reliance, personal responsibility and teach life skills. Teambuilding encourages leaders, businesses and teams to find their motivation and become more dynamic for optimal performance with synergistic benefits of tapping into each other’s strengths & skills.

We ensure that everyone participating has fun while re-organising his or her individual potential. Team building can be extremely useful beyond the spectrum of business and various sports teams, a choir group, students, learners and even extended families can reap massive rewards from team building experiences. A eye-opening, mind changing adventure experience that helps prepare you for life. A journey of discovery and the realized a positive mindset will push you further in the future and that any differences whether social standing, age or of race and culture by working together can remove the barriers and open doors. By adapting the activities we can personalize the camp to suit your requirements.

Adventure sports packages field trips, and office outings are tailor made to include the importance of taking responsibility, awareness of others, setting goals, trust and priorities to enhance personal growth. Other programs to promote communication and team work or to introduce students, teenagers, troubled youths and corporate members to outdoor and environmental education and ecological awareness. The more extreme games are adaptable to suit each group's needs and abilities, and teach valuable long life skills by helping to find each individuals strengths and weaknesses by gaining great results with adventure to create a prosperous and successful outcome.

Troubled teenagers and youth can find themselves, learn to solve their problems, increase self-confidence, learn to handle their anger and to trust again, have life changing profound character changing experiences and personal growth while having fun. Some will be inspired to work harder in future, go back to school, open communication with their parents and people in authority, change their lives for the better. By putting together a series of activities that build up and encourage confidence and by working on the strengths of each individual their lives can be changed. By gaining trust in themselves and others, by encouraging and listening and offering new life skills, direction and solutions their lives can be transformed into making better choices that will be taken home and used in the future.

Build a Winning Team for Your Business or School.

Now run in conjunction with Mkulu Kei horse trails, a fun filled adventure center which falls under the Cher-a-Don stamp of Quality and Authenticity.

The adventure centre, having been successfully run by Anne Fairey and Howard Champ for many years, will now be run by Don Fraser and assisted by our staff.

We are busy upgrading the current activity program and will constantly be developing new activities to make your wilderness adventure camp at Lalapanzi a must do adventure escape for all fitness levels, sizes, and ages.

Day trips to Lalapanzi adventure venue for a minimum of 8 people can be arranged. Prior booking of activities must be confirmed and booking essential.

Please phone for details and a quote.

Paintball is R70 per person this includes 1pkt  of paint balls and R10 per pkt of 20 thereafter.

Horse riding R200 per person riding through the game, you will need to be a competent rider.

Abseil R100 per person / minimum charge R200.

Overnight camp at Lalapanzi adventure centre for a minimum of 8 people can be arranged. Prior booking of which activities must be confirmed and booking essential. Please contact us to discuss your groups program and dietary requirements.

Abseiling, obstacle course, kloofing, canoeing, raft building, orienteering, abseiling, hiking, icebreakers and fun activities will be included in your daily rate while paint ball and horse riding are optional extras.

We can accommodate groups of up to 50 persons over night.

The stamp of Quality and Authenticity

Our rates for two or more nights are R215 per person per night, for full catering, which includes VAT and 3 meals and 2 teas per day plus all activities except paintball and horse riding. Our rates are R225 per person for one night, for full catering, which includes VAT and 3 meals and 2 teas per day plus all activities except paintball and horse riding.. Self-catering R110 per person per night including all activities except paintball and horse riding.

We do not provide evening entertainment and do not have television available at the centre. Please note that responsibility for the welfare of the children remains that of the accompanying adults, especially at night. We are in the process of building a open pit fire area for relaxation and discussions. A center for reflection, story telling and discussion. Wood will be provided.

Our visitors are accommodated in two dormitories of 24 bunk beds each, one for girls and one for boys, all under one roof. Each dormitory has its own ablutions and visitors are required to bring their own bedding, pillows, sleeping bags, etc. as well as personal toiletries and sufficient changes of clothes in case of bad weather, at least 2 towels, a costume for the dam and good walking shoes, hats, sun block and water bottles. It is recommended that the participating visitors bring old clothes.

Lockers are provided for personal belongings and toilet rolls are provided.

Group leaders and facilitators are accommodated in two bedrooms both with bathrooms en suite. We provide linen and towels and can accommodate 4 in one room and 2 in the other. These rooms are in the same building as the dormitories.

Large dinning room and kitchen facilities, which doubles up for indoor activities, all crockery and cutlery is provided.

Our meals are simple but plentiful and provide pudding with supper and biscuits or cake for tea. Juice, tea and coffee are available at appropriate times.

Please advise when booking  of any special dietary requirements.

In order to secure a reservation a 50 % deposit is required, failing which the reservation will lapse.

Tel/Fax: +27 (0) 43 8411 525 A/H
Cell: +27 (0) 83 632 7298

During the day please contact me on the cell, I am probably horsing around. Signal can be irregular, please leave a message or phone me on the landline in the evenings.

Contact us to discuss your requirements.

E-mail: cheryl@mkulukeihorsetrails.co.za

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LALAPANZI ADVENTURE CENTRE - The center of adventure.

Adventures are designed with two goals in mind: FUN and SAFETY.

Adventure and teambuilding activities are accompanied by qualified and experienced guides.

If you are a corporate, business, church, school or youth group then check out our rates for activity packages. We offer a 'Mix n Match' of different adventure activities over a weekend, for a few days or choose one action packed day. Have an adventure party and we can accommodate you with paint ball, abseiling or other fun activities for you and your friends for a fun filled day.

The warm atmosphere provides an ideal venue for all different groups for all different purposes, whether corporate, clubs, church groups, educational and school outings, leadership camps or team building groups. Our aim is quite simple, and that is to get you to experience the greatness of nature again. And if that means being very busy or very quiet, getting dirty or simply to enjoy the sheer beauty of the outdoors, we invite you to experience Lalapanzi for an absolute fun filled time of activities and adventure.

We offer a very wide range of high quality adventure activities, all goal orientated, to suit all ages and abilities including fun days, weekend breaks, instruction, adventure getaways, team building and outdoor pursuits, outdoor activity courses, class and school excursions, school group outings, veldskool, adventure camps, mini conferences, corporate weekends, functions, leadership identification, leadership development, sport camps & clinics, equestrian teams and associations.

Our aim is to encourage emotional intelligence and accountability through group dynamic tasks, activities, team building exercises and self- assessment programs. Further, we strive to build self- belief and confidence in the learners that visit through individual and team challenges that are adventure based. Activities result in increased self-confidence, personal self-esteem, courage, strength, group dynamics and encourage cooperation with others. By developing interpersonal skills and relations, promoting decision-making, solutions, teamwork, character building, group dynamics, development. Lalapanzi for your motivational corporate office team building functions.

The activities acknowledge the different strengths and abilities of individuals thus ensuring that all members of a group are given the chance to 'shine'. A wealth of experience in facilitating many initiative exercises and much personal growth takes place in this context as does the inevitable 'team building'. Team building is the process of turning a group of individuals into a team, equipped with skills such as communication, trust, co-operation, planning and honesty. The productivity of a well-developed team can be astonishing.

Adventures are designed with two goals in mind: FUN and SAFETY.

Designed for all ages and fitness abilities.

Groups or families – holidaymakers and locals.

Abseiling and rappelling is commonly practiced the world over as a method of descending a rope in a safe and controlled manner. Our abseil experience takes place over looking the Guqura River off a 25-metre cliff (suitable for all ages) with a second site used for special events with a drop of 70 metres.

Anyone can abseil. You don't need strength and the experienced guide will show you an easy technique. The guide also has control over your descent to make sure you descend is safe and controlled.

Obstacle course: A series of obstacles constructed of various types of materials provide challenges to individuals or groups and encourages team spirit and develops relations with fellow team mates,  sharing of strengths, listening skills, endurance, learn to follow instructions, co-operation, patience and understanding, commitment, thought and effective communication. Some challenges on the course help develop leadership skills.

Rock climbing: A variety of routes are identified, ranging from bouldering to more challenging, all are backed up by an instructor and belay operator for safety. A climbing wall, as a part of the obstacle course, is planned for the future.

Hiking both in the Gugura river and on the farm through game, a fun. scenic exercise.

Kloofing: Various marked routes geared for different fitness levels.

Canoeing on the farm dam, for personal development skills and coordination.

Raft building: A perfect exercise for team building development for a youth or corporate group. In teams, you will be challenged to build a raft using limited materials and your personal and leadership skills. Once built, your team will then take to the water and achieve your mission around the farm dam without sinking!!

Orienteering: If you are ready for a challenge that is both mental and physical and gets you off the beaten track, then orienteering is for you! You will learn to read and interpret a variety of specialist orienteering maps and use these to help you navigate interesting and challenging routes through forest, rivers, kloofs and open farmland. This activity is used to improve your navigation skills, team work and as a stepping-stone to participation in competitive events.

Target Shooting: Use blow pipes, catapult or paintball guns to shoot at a target.

Bush art:

Volley ball fun team relaxation.

Group Dynamics, incentive activities and icebreaker activities all creating a realization that we need each other, team strengths as well as effective communication and problem solving.

There are literally hundreds of teambuilding activities that can be used to achieve different objectives and outcomes.

Spiders Web, Jacobs ladder, rope courses, tyre shuffle, traffic Jam, beam change, mine field, wooden board, blindfold square, tripod crossing, totem pole teamwork and many more.

The type of activity used will depend on the following factors.

Objective and motivation of the teambuilding for that day

Age of group

Group size

Time available

Optional activities:

Horse riding: Aimed at the beginner/novice rider in the arena more experienced riders will be accommodated in the game.

• See our horses
• See pony camp
• See day rides
• See our mares

Bush Camp: A night under the stars the aim of bush camp is to increase resilience, independence, understanding, survival skills and leadership skills.

Solitude: Affording each camper the opportunity to record feelings, hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future, reflection on camp and one’s self.

Paintball: We supply the paint ball guns, paintballs and protective eyewear (according to paintball regulations), please bring a change of old clothes - some overalls are available. It is a fun, healthy and technical exercise and involves strategy, teamwork and quick thinking.

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