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Antbear Woodworking Workshops

Located in KwaZulu Natal

Email: andrew@antbear.co.za

Tel: 0736126964

Immersive hands on experience

Join us for on one of our woodworking workshops where you get to try your hand at making something unique yourself in the Drakensberg Mountains. Antbear Lodge offers the opportunity to get your hands dirty and create some interesting woodwork yourself. Or if you are interested just pop your nose into the word work studio and have a look at whats going on.

Antbear Lodge volunteer program
Woodworking at Antbear Lodge

Woodworking courses and workshops are custom designed to fit your needs. Tell us what you want to learn and we will show you a way to get there. Some guests ask to make a lamp or a hat stand and after 3 days they have made a unique piece of furniture with their own hands.

Drakensberg activities woodworking lessons with children
helping a child with some woodwork in a safe and overseen environment

Our giveaway to helping to promote South Africa as a tourist destination

You can win:
2 days with andrew doing woodwork

Additionally you are automatically entered into the competition to win the great South Africa adventure holiday worth more than R150 000.

Value of Antbear Woodworking Workshops prize
R7500
Closing date of competition:

18:00 on 30.10.2022

T&cs:
subject to availability

We have been able to offer this giveaway through a collaboration with our wide network of travel and tourism partners. Thank you to everyone who has sponsored this incredible adventure holiday giveaway for 2 persons valued at over R150 000!! But there is even more. There is also a bonus prize of a 4k Olfi action camera up for grabs.

Our mission is to create  tourism awareness in South Africa and heightened attention for the upcoming tourism month of September. Its all about getting more locals and returning South Africans,  travelling this wonderful country of ours. If we can encourage international tourists too even better.

The great South Africa adventure holiday worth R150000 unpacked

Giants Castle Slack Packing Trail

Slackpacking – Explore the Drakensberg foothills without the burden of a backpack walking from lodge to lodge, having your luggage transported for you and looking forward to excellent 3 course meals.   www.giants-castle.co.za

Experience the St Lucia estuary from St Lucia Eco Lodge for 2 nights including breakfast and dinner as well as a game drive and boat safari. This lodge is an ideal point from which to explore South Africa’s first World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. www.stlucia-ecolodge.co.za

Karkloof Canopy Tour

The Karkloof Canopy Tour consists of 12 platforms and 10 zip-line slides, the longest of which is 200m! Feel like Tarzan as you zip safely from platform to platform with a yodel to wake the squirrels. www.canopytour.co.za

Stay another night at Antbear Lodge after you have completed the slack packing trail in a Mountain View site including dinner and breakfast. Take in a cultural storytelling experience in  our star gazing hammock camp  www.antbear.com

Hot Air Ballooning

Hot Air Ballooning is a gentle experience that is suitable for all. Imagine drifting at a leisurely pace across the magnificent Drakensberg  www.hotairballooningsa.co.za 

Via Faretta Drakensberg

For those that enjoy walking or hiking through our beautiful countryside we invite you to enjoy a mountain climbing route that has aids such as ladders, steps and cable.  www.adventurecentre.co.za

Ardmore Guest Farm

Stay 3 nights at Ardmore Guest Farm  including dinner and breakfast. You will want the extra time here to experience Scootours downhill scooters and the Via Feratta rock climbing trail. Dont forget one of the mornings will be and early start to float away in a hot air balloon Value  www.ardmore.co.za 

Sootours downhill scooters

Feel the thrill as you negotiate a downhill mountain experience in the Central Drakensberg. Scooters are non-motorized making this Eco-friendly.   www.scootours.co.za 

Tree Tree Hill Lodge

Stay 2 nights at Three Tree Hill Lodge  including dinner and breakfast. The old-world charm of this upmarket lodge with its large verandahs creates an ideal environment in which to wind down and enjoy nature. Included is a game walk and if you can also consider to take part in a guided battlefield tour.  www.threetreehill.co.za

Granny Mouse

2 Nights relaxing in the Kwazulu Natal Midlands at Granny Mouse Country House and Spa. Explore the Midlands Meander and relax with  the very best in opulent accommodation coupled with old-world charm and service, embedded into the ethos and foundations of this historic hotel.
www.grannymouse.co.za

safari at Bonamznzi

Enter the rough terrain of Bonamanzi in Northern KZN. Its home to the big 4 and with its wide expanses of bush, makes game viewing the best in the country. 2 Nights in a treehouse with dinner, bed and breakfast including a game drive 
www.bonamazi.co.za

fugitives-drift-lodge

2 nights  at the five star  Fugitives Drift Lodge. Take part in Fugitives’ Drift’s awe-inspiring battlefield tours, which bring the battles of Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana to life, leaving one with a deep and tangible insight into some of the most moving of South Africa’s battlefields.  www.fugitivesdrift.com

leopard-mountain-lodge

Stay 2 nights at Leopard Mountain Lodge  including dinner and breakfast. Witness endless sunsets melting their final rays into the horizon, the smell of fresh rainfall over Africa’s plains and a feeling of peace and tranquillity as your African dream unfolds into a truly memorable reality. www.leopardmountain.co.za

makakatana-bay-lodge

2 Nights relaxing in at Makakatana  Game Lodge within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Experience this magnificent area from the comfort of our spacious rooms, set on raised decks within the wilderness of the game park. iSimangaliso Wetland Park is home to vibrant wildlife in the game reserve, within Lake St. Lucia’s estuary and the glorious coastal beaches on the eastern shores of the park. www.makakatana.com

sungulwane-lodge

Imagine a place where time stands still, where the gentle breeze rustles through the Red Ivory trees, the sun drops slowly beyond the horizon, turning the sky pink and cueing the lion’s call. Now stop imagining and experience all of this for2 nights including dinner and breakfast from the sanctuary of your very own private balcony at Sungulwane Private Game Lodge. www.sungulwane.co.za

Mlendeni Sitole will tell you his African village stories of the night skies. He has built a star gazing hammock camp for you to relax and observe the heavens and listen to the night sounds. He makes you feel like you have never seen the night sky before when you go stargazing with him in the Drakensberg. www.giants-castle.co.za/star-gazing-hammock-camp/

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Comments

Number of competition entries so far: 2

Lester Niss – 24.07.2022
Always wanted to do woodworking but never had the opportunity

NKOSIKHONA MPISANE – 24.07.2022
To learn working with wood being motivated by what I saw when visiting this place.