Discovering Africa’s Secrets
Mar 03 2011
Africa is said to be the birth place of humankind and holds many answers to our disillusioned civilisation. The ancient culture, unique history, and magnificent beauty calls to us, to take some time away from our busy Western lifestyles and revisit our ancestral roots of wisdom. The Hayward’s Sacred Safari© program aims to bring enlightenment to both urban and rural community leaders and provide insight as to why each are co-dependant on the other.
“For me, the art of an expedition… the art of a journey or safari, lies more with the science of bringing together an orchestra of core team specialists, all able to abstract from the landscape and its people those hidden treasures always overlooked, then present them to an astounded audience,” says Peter Hayward. Depending on the interest and intention of the guests, Peter Hayward arranges and facilitates these exclusive VIP expeditions to forgotten villages where vital cross cultural information swapping and sustainability programs can be started, developed or maintained. Expeditions pass through remnants of lost civilisations and ancient trade routes that reveal Africa’s mythical past.
The Hayward’s Sacred Safari expedition team is made up of renowned authorities in various fields of ancient African history, shamanism, anthropology, rural sustainability, paleontology, meteorology, diamond & gold history and ancient African archaeology. The purpose of these expeditions is to take philanthropists out into unchartered African locations to learn from mother Africa.
A selection of leading field explorers have over the years presented their work and areas of expertise on a Hayward’s safari. One such person is Patricia Glyn, renowned adventurer, writer and speaker. “If there’s one thing you learn when you traverse a landscape on foot, it is that nature is intricately inter-dependant and easily put off balance. By following the diary and the route of my ancestor, who travelled our sub-continent in 1863, I had the unique opportunity to compare what he and I encountered, to see day by day, step by step, how enormous the damage is that we have wrought on our motherland in the intervening years. And the answer as to how to halt and reverse that damage invariably lies with the aboriginal cultures of our continent.”
Many of these sites are sacred and explorers have started to uncover the untold history of Africa and learn more about its ancient wisdom. Participating in a Sacred Safari is not a spectator pass time but rather involves the group in hands on processes designed to find and look at the sustainable nature of African villages and what they can teach a consumer-crazed urban western population. These are not “stiff upper lip” expeditions either, as the days of ‘know it all’ western viewpoints are long gone. Rather, it’s looking at Africa in a fresh clean light and coming to realise that her people and this continent still have a significant role to play in the healing of this planet.
These expeditions are for adventurous philanthropists with financial muscle who would like to participate in something much larger than themselves, on a journey to discover Africa’s hidden secrets. It’s legacy building stuff all the way.
Contact Hayward’s Safari Events and Expeditions
Head Quarters, Bobbejaansberg Private Nature Reserve, Boekenhoutskloof, Gauteng, South Africa Local – Tel: 0861 732 583
International – Tel: +27 (0) 12 808 0442
Cell: +27 (0) 83 600 4453
Fax: 086 530 9427
email: reservations@secluded.co.za
| Tweet |
