Exclusive Limited
Offer: 12 days of Hunting with San Bushman
Now Booking
for 2010
Peter
and two Hoa Bushmen on the track of
a Kudu
African
Excursions and the D'Kar
Trust have teamed up on the TRAKS (Transferring Ancient Knowledge
and Skills) project. TRAKS is about providing an economically sustainable
way to preserve the hunting heritage and traditional skills of the few
remaining Bushmen who really did live the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
Their way of life is the first human culture and the one man spent the
most time living and which had the greatest influence on our evolution.
These hunts offer a unique chance to not only have an awesome hunting
experience but to help preserve a precious hunting heritage that we
all share. In the photos on the left, the man with the light colored
hat in the 2nd picture from the top is the guy who runs down a kudu
in David Attenborough's Life of Mammals. Watch it on Youtube.
Today,
Bushmen have little opportunity to hunt, and if they do, it's not with
the traditional bow and arrow. These skills are slowly slipping away.
The TRAKS project involves getting several of the old men who in the
50's and 60's hunted as a means of survival and teaming them with younger
Bushmen. The pairs will guide bowhunters and at the same time the younger
Bushmen will be learning from the old men. The program also brings needed
income and meat into the community.
The
hunting takes place on Dqãe
Qare, an 18,500 acre game farm, run by the D'Kar
Trust, a bushman non-profit organization. Dqãe
Qare is located in the Ghanzi District of Botswana, in the heart
of the Kalahari. Dqãe
Qare is teaming with duiker, eland, gemsbok, giraffe, hartebeest,
impala, kudu, springbok, steenbok, warthog, wildebeest, and zebra.
Track
and stalk with the legendary San Bushman of the Kalahari. These trips
are personally guided by Peter Durkin, the owner of African Excursions
and are limited to only two trips of three hunters per year, scheduled
during July and August.
Our reasonably priced 12-day hunts include:
- Pickup
at Maun or Windhoek, Namibia airport
- Transportation to and from airport and camp
- 11 nights of accommodations including all meals, daily laundry and
drinks
--including alcoholic beverages
- Services of guides, trackers, and skinners
- Skinning, salting, and transportation of trophies to trophy dealer
in Maun
- 2 trophies (a kudu and your choice of a blue wildebeest, red hartebeest,
or gemsbok), --with additional trophies
available
- Additional game available for trophy fees
Also
available during the trip at no added cost is two day's of Bushman survival
experience. Stay in traditional huts and learn how to find food and
water in the bush, tracking techniques, and bow and arrow making.
Another
oppurtunity to hunt Dqãe
Qare is to go on a Sportng Safari
that combines hunting with the Bushmen with fishing on the Okavango
River and camping in Moremi Game Reserve.
Other Packages
are:
7 day - 6 Trophy Plains Game Hunt
10 day Leopard Hunt, inlcudes 3 plains game trophies
Overall Price List
