Itinerary

We do not have a routine as such as every day is different for us. We like our volunteers to help in all aspects of horse management. They do conversational English teaching in the mornings and hold leadership skills courses with students from the local school. We are involved in a fishing village called Enriques where we take clients so they can sample Mozambican food. Our volunteers have to opportunity to visit the islands either on Dhows or motor boats. Most do a dive course to take advantage of learning to dive in some of the best tropical dive sites in the world, with high Whale shark populations.

Example Itinerary

• 5.00 am: Wake up get dressed and enjoy a early morning coffee. Prepare whatever you need for feeding and health checks.
• 5.30 am: Jonathan our driver, will arrive and load up with feed, halters and medicines. You arrive at the paddocks in the cool of the early morning. Catch the horses and tether them to their feeding poles. Prepare feeds, and feed each horse its ration with nose buckets. While they eat, a visual check is conducted on every horse to check for cuts, grazes, ticks and general condition. Any problems are then addressed with the help of our grooms and senior volunteers. All horses hooves are then picked and inspected, again any issues are then dealt with. Each animal is then sprayed for ticks and released. This is then repeated in the second paddock. One or two volunteers may go, during this time, to the dam with Albert to collect water to fill all the troughs.
• 8.00 am: Return to the house and eat breakfast. This is likely to be tea, coffee, toast, jam, scrambled or fried eggs, cheese, bacon and juice.
• 9.00 am: Volunteers will then carry out their allotted tasks. This may include teaching in the riding school, lesson preparation, tack repairs and maintenance, treatment for any problems discovered that morning.
• 12.30 am: Lunch is served. This may be spaghetti bolognaise, stir fry, chicken casserole etc. All served with bread and butter, juice and salad.
• 1.00 pm: After lunch you will get free time for relaxation. You can go to town, have a sleep or generally relax from the midday sun.
• 3.00 pm: Participants will now prepare and start teaching riding lessons or taking beach rides. Those with limited riding experience may be requested to join the riding lessons. Other volunteers may work with horses who needing extra exercise or training.
• 6.00 pm: Return to the house, unload and put away all tack and equipment.
• 6.30 pm: Dinner is served, again a main meal with all the trimmings.
• 7.00 pm: Free time. Relax on the veranda, listen to the crickets and tree frogs, chat about the days events, enjoy a cold beer and, for the most enthusiastic, prepare for the following day.

PLEASE NOTE:

All days here are different, as we have to rise to meet each new challenge as they come, but this is an itinerary of the kind of day you can expect to enjoy with us at Mozambique Horse Safari. Please be aware that, because we are a real project dealing with the day to day running of a herd of nearly seventy horses, we have to maintain flexibility. This can depend on the number of volunteers at the time, the needs of the horses, number of outriders or lessons booked. You have two days off a week to pursue a social life and have fun.