SAWC
 campus

Welcome to your new home for the next six months. Our Kempiana campus is located just 50 minutes from Hoedspruit in the Greater Kruger National Park. Here, students are trained in collaboration with the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC). The Greater Kruger National Park is the vast landscape to the west of Kruger National Park, made up of private game reserves and protected areas (approximately 350,000 hectares). This landscape is open to the Kruger National Park, so animals can roam freely without fences to prevent natural migrations. The SAWC campus is found near the Kruger’s Orpen Gate, an area which often sees the Big 5 as well as general game, endangered African wild dogs and much more. The campus itself is held within an electrified fence, so you’re safe to explore and even exercise while living here. Accommodation, classroom and catering facilities are a short walk apart – you might even see an elephant just on the other side of the fence as you make your way to class. But being immersed in nature doesn’t mean you’re completely out of contact with the outside world. The campus is equipped with WiFi and electricity so you can keep in touch with family and friends, and supplement your studies with additional research. Our unique location means we can offer our students direct access to the natural environment and train in an outdoor classroom that emulates their work places in parks and reserves throughout southern Africa. We are also surrounded by other land-use types, such as community-owned agricultural land and community trust areas, bringing even more diversity to our on-site training opportunities. You can also spend free weeks in Kruger National Park if you heart desires. The Orpen Gate entrance to Kruger is just 10 kilometres from the entrance to campus. Visit this vast wildlife area – at nearly two million hectares, Kruger National Park is the largest reserve in South Africa and an incredible resource for budding field guide students!