About Volunteering With Predators

 The love of my life

I would like to thank everyone for all of the kind words, and inspiring emails that you people out there are sending me. You really make me smile the rest of the day after reading your emails!! I never thought I would have readers from all over the world, and I`m truly amazed that my not so professional videos on youtube has been watched over 150.000 times already! (crazy!)

As I recieve many emails about volunteering with predators, I thought I might write something about it here as well since I`m not able to answer every single email unfortunately... 

There are so many places to volunteer with animals, not only in Africa! But I`m sure that if you decide to go to Africa, you`ll want to go back. As they say; once you get the sand of Africa in your shoes, it will always bring you back! The first time I went to Africa, I went to Namibia to Harnas Wildlife Foundation, where I mainly cared for cheetahs and baboons. It was a great first trip to Africa, but for me it was too many volunteers, and very expensive. My next trip to Africa, I went to a park in South Africa, where they has lots of lions and tigers, and we were only 6 volunteers at the most. I fell in love with the animals, and loved spending time with them. Not one day goes by without missing all of the animals I worked with there!

My favorite lion Sky.

Many people look at my pictures and think that I got to cuddle with the lions and tigers the whole day. That`s just a small part about volunteering. Most of the day the volunteers cut up meat, fed the animals, cleaned the enclosures, built enclosures, cleaned waterholes etc. It`s hard work, but it`s definitely worth it!

If you want to volunteer you should search for places to volunteer, and you should try to find blogs about volunteering at the place you want to go, so you get a view of what it`s like at that place. Unfortunately it is quite expensive to volunteer at some places, so you should compare a few parks before you make a decision. 

Good luck to everyone out there that wants to follow their dream to work with these precious animals. I`m sure you`ll love it as much as I have!

We Only Part To Meet Again

The Best Way to Wake Up; Roaring Lions

Early Morning Lion Walk

Today we got up early to go for a lion walk with the four young ones; Sky, Kayla, Angie & Louw. They love running free in the bush, stalking and chasing each other. And who said the lions don`t climb trees? These one`s does! I wish I had my camera there - some of them came down, some fell...

There was a scandinavian invasion here today; we had guests from Norway and Sweden! I just made a video of the mongoose eating an egg. I love those little ones... The video will be up soon!

Releasing of Pumba the Warthog

Yesterday we released Pumba the wild Warthog... 

Lazy Lions and Crazy Tigers

The first few days back in South Africa has been really great! I love waking up to the sound of lions roaring - so much better than my alarm! Yesterday we went for a lion walk in the morning, cleaned some enclosures and spent time with the animals. 

The pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again

After a looong flight I finally arrived in South Africa. I was picked up at the airport in a small plane and made it to the park before sunset, so I got to see all the animals again.


I can`t describe how good it was seeing all of the animals again. They`re all getting bigger and more beautiful every day. There´s also some new animals here; some young mongoose, a porcupine, some snakes and tomorrow we`re picking up a baby warthog. I just had a lovely dinner with some great people - and I can`t wait to wake up tomorrow and go out to see the animals again!!!


It`s good to be back!! 

7 Days

7 days left in Norway before I go back to South Africa! I can`t wait to see all the beautiful animals again!
Lion walks, sunsets at the koppie, spending time with the animals, great people....only a week left!!

Frivillig i Afrika

Første turen til Afrika reiste jeg gjennom en organisasjon. Det var en opplevelse - men jeg ville ikke gjort det igjen. Vi var nesten 70 frivillige på det meste, og selv om de reklamerte med at man fikk være med løvene, var den eneste kontakten å kaste mat over gjerdet! Det ble også mye dyrere enn planlagt...


Derfor valgte jeg å reise til et nytt sted, som var helt fantastisk - bare 1/3 av prisen jeg betalte første gangen. Her var det få frivillige, slik at man slapp å stå i kø for å være med dyrene, fantastiske folk som jobbet der, mye spennende aktiviteter, og ikke minst, mye mer kontakt med dyrene! 
Jeg hadde en helt utrolig bra opplevelse og unner alle det samme - vanligvis liker jeg ikke å dra til samme sted flere ganger, men jeg vet at jeg skal tilbake hit! 


Jeg blir ganske irritert når jeg ser hvordan organisasjoner sponser toppbloggere med turer til Afrika hvor de tar masse bilder sammen med dyrene, slik at flere vil reise med de. Det gir et feil bilde av hvordan det er i virkeligheten...