Wild Times are able to offer our clients some wonderful horseback experiences all over Africa. Riders can canter along open sandy tracks, across vast savannah plains or traverse high ridges and mountains with spectacular vistas. The pace can be as fast or relaxed as the rider would like and when coming across game you can often get so close the experience is unforgettable. All our riding operators have fit, reliable and responsive horses and offer a very professional riding experience. Our riding holidays operate across Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, each offering a completely unique experience. Some of our select riding operators can also cater to the novice rider as well as children, making it an excellent venue for couples or families of mixed ability.

A brief guide on the type of riding holidays we can offer.

1. Horseback Safari - Tends to be for more experienced riders, riding in amongst all types of wildlife, maybe riding from a base each day or to a mobile camp.
   
2. Game viewing on Horseback - Can be for all standards of riders, might be on a ranch riding among differing types of wildlife, normally returning to a lodge or permanent camp each evening.
   
3. Horseback Adventures - Not wildlife based, might be trekking or riding on beaches all standards of riders.
   
   Each Horseback favourite or highlight is described as either a horseback safari operation, a game viewing on horseback operation or a horseback adventure operation.
   

Not to be missed if you love holidays on horseback...

	Private Guiding The Wild Times Way PRESS RELEASE: Exclusive African safari consultants, Wild Times, are expanding their services to their clients, by creating a private guiding division.
	On Tour With National Geographic Walking into Forest Lodge at Grootbos Nature Reserve was like a breath of fresh air. The very modern but relaxed atmosphere made us feel at home and after a refreshing welcome drink we all hit the dinner table with a vengeance.
	Nyika Horse Safaris A horseback Safari experience. Big skies open country and vast panoramas combine to make the Nyika the most perfect riding country. For day after day you can explore the remotest regions of this 3000 sq. km wilderness. Follow Elephant trails down secluded steep sided valleys, trot with the herds of Eland, Roan, and Zebra, canter the edge of 1500 ft high escarpments and gallop across the rolling hills of the plateau. On the Nyika you are riding on top of the world.
	Where the cattle sleep with one eye open...... A game viewing on horseback experience. Borana would not be the place it is today without horses. When the Dyer family first came here they were the only means of personal transport. Today, all their farms still have stables.
	The Ant Experience! A game viewing on horseback experience. Ant's Nest and Ant's Hill are two beautiful lodges each set in their own private game reserve owned and run by the Babers, whose family have lived in the Waterberg since 1865. Both lodges offer you the chance of a fabulous riding safari and for those families or groups that consist of non riders, there are a range of other activities on offer.

Kalahari Dreaming - South Africa A game viewing on horseback experience. Experience a totally different aspect of South Africa with three nights at Tswalu Lodge in the arid Northern Cape Province. The lodge, a unique, luxury desert experience is perfect as a stand-alone get-away, or as an add-on to an existing visit to South Africa.