The Heart of our Pondo Trail™
We are not a hiking company. We do not aspire to take people for walks or on adventures and we do not aspire to serve them good food or increase their knowledge of the areas we frequent. These, although all important, are just by-products of our real focus. Rather, we aspire to offer a series of emotionally driven and highly memorable moments, and every member of the Wild Child Africa Team focuses on how to create these moments within their particular area of our business. At the end of each Pondo Trail, our guests should leave us in a changed emotional state – they, quite simply, must just feel better.
Crafted with Intention
The Pondo Trail is not a path or hiking route, anyone can take you for a walk in Pondoland. It is an experience curated, developed and exclusively owned by Wild Child Africa. From its inception, The Pondo Trail™ was designed to be different. Wild Child Africa didn’t simply map out a trail; we have curated an experience that honours the land, its people, and its stories. Some hiking trails are measured by the degree of difficulty, or by the level of the natural beauty on offer; while others are measured by something far less tangible. The Pondo Trail® is one of these rare journeys; an experience crafted to immerse, challenge, inspire and transform. It is a high-end eco-tourism experience that carefully blends barefoot luxury and remote wilderness; and our hand-picked and highly trained guides use this as the canvas to achieve our goal of creating a truly life-changing experience.
What We Hope You’ll Feel
We don’t just want you to hike our Pondo Trail™ – we want you to feel it. We want to offer you a rare freedom to disconnect from the noise of modern life and reconnect with the wild, to let go of the busyness of everyday life, and to take time for introspection and re-evaluating priorities. And, we want our guests to feel joy! We want them to laugh, smile and dance on the sand. We want them to connect with their inner wild, to soak up the natural beauty of Pondoland and be wild and free.
But, the Pondo Trail™ is also a call to action. It is a collection of inspired, like-minded individuals who are driven to help preserve this incredible yet fragile environment, and carry with them the echoes of this land long after their boots have left its soil.
