News and Events
New Trainees
We welcome Hillary as our newest trainee instructor. Over the course
of the next year Hillary will be trained by in many outdoor pursuits
including, rockclimbing and abseiling, canoeing, caving, mountain
trekking, navigation, wilderness first aid, group management,
risk assessment and leadership and team skills. For a detailed
listing of our in-house training courses go to our training home
page.
ISK Leadership trip
On the 28th and 29th August we hosted a Leadership Programme for
57 Year 12 students from The International School of Kenya, at
Crater Lake Sanctuary, Lake Naivasha. The main objective was to
experience, develop and instil a variety of leadership styles in
the students to help them in the transition from school to adult
life.
The programme revolved around our unique ‘Trail of
the Ndorobo’ where small groups work towards a common goal
by collecting pieces of a puzzle when participating in 4 different
group initiatives. If good leadership and team skills were demonstrated
or discussed in the small de-briefs afterwards a piece to the puzzle
was awarded. Training Courses
We don’t just offer superb educational adventures to students
we are also the leading Adventure Training company in East and
Central Africa. We train instructors in all outdoor pursuits and
wilderness first aid,
see our training pages for more info.
New Gap-Year Challenges
Want to have fun, adventure, learn about life and enjoy beautiful
places with the backup and safety of an experienced Gap-year operator?
A Rift Valley Adventures gap-year challenge is for you! Operating
in Kenya and Australia at amazing sites this trip is for lifetime.
Mauritius & Reunion
New adventures in new countries! Check out our new programme sites
in Mauritius and Reunion. These magnificent islands host beautiful
beaches, surf and trekking, to Creole culture, vibrant history,
active volcanoes and some of the worlds best adventure activity
sites. Go to our site pages Mauritius and Reunion for more info.
Rift Valley Adventures operating British Army Adventure Training
The expertise and experience of our instructors has been closely
assessed by the British Army
who selected Rift Valley Adventures
to instruct Adventure Training for their personnel in 2002.
On
August 13th & 14th 2003, we hosted a small team of British
Army instructors and demonstrated our skills rafting on the Uaso
Nyiro River and rock-climbing and abseiling in Loldaiga Ranch.
We look forward to working with British Army troops on the water
and on the cliffs in 2003 and 2004.
Kenya Holiday Challenge July 2004
Did you know that Rift Valley Adventures offers fantastic Holiday
Challenges to students of all ages, abilities and nationalities.
Our unique programmes help enhance a student physically, mentally,
socially and morally by participating in fun challenges. See
our holiday programme page for more information.
St. Andrew's School S1 Mountain Bike Programme
In September Rift Valley Adventures provided 3 day mountain bike
trips for St. Andrew's School. Starting high up on Eburu Hill
at Greenpark, Naivasha, the students were briefed in safety issues
and bike skills before heading off our front suspension, 21 speed,
Shimano mountain bikes. The first hill is a technical descent
of North Lake Road in Naivasha. The first night we stopped at
the beautiful Crater Lake campsite for a well earned shower.
Day 2 saw us back on the bike making our way through Kongoni
and into Hell's Gate N.P. via the Ol Karia gate. With the geothermal
plants producing clouds of steam with the added smell of sulphur
we quickly made our way to the dramatic and airy abseil into
the gorge. Day 2 camp was in the park and on the final day we
rock climbed all over Fischers Tower . We would like to thank
the St. Andrew's School students and staff for the effort that
they put into make the 3 programmes on the 15-17 th , 22-24 th
and 24 th to 26 th September a huge success. Thank you!
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