Working Gap Year Photo Gallery

Pictures and memories with us as a working volunteer at Mkulu Kei horse trails & riding holidays, see photographs of horses, riding and working. Horse back riding vacations with us an adventure travel destination in South Africa where you will get to do lots of riding while gaining equine experience and having fun in a family environment on your equestrian break holiday. Help new riders to become comfortable in the saddle, while teaching equestrian skills, get involved with the development riders and assist in our equine therapy horses working with kids "at risk" at Cher-a-Don Teambuilding Adventure Centre. Mkulu Kei horse riding holidays on the Wild Coast in South Africa a popular equine gap year destination. An ideal volunteer placement for those who want to work with horses on holiday and gain valuable work experience in the equine industry. See the photos of previous equestrian volunteers.

Whether you are interested in being a equestrian student for your gap year or career break at Mkulu Kei Horse Trails & Riding holidays or as a non riding volunteer, working with underprivileged children and youth in trouble with the law at  Cher-a-Don (Lalapanzi) Adventure Centre. Mkulu Kei is a great destination for your working holiday experience in South Africa, with a home a way from home atmosphere.

Mkulu Kei horse trails & Riding Holidays is a equestrian safaris working riding gap holiday experience on your working travel vacation in South Africa Wild Coast will give you the opportunity to work with horses of all ages, ride, learn our horse training methods and our holistic approach to horses.

Your first choice in a work and travel gap year horseback riding holiday. By volunteering with us you will be one of only a few students making your South African horse adventure a combination of equine work and riding in a family environment at a popular working stud and riding school. No hours of cleaning tack and mucking out stables; get to the fun part of horse riding. With ±70 horses of all ages we have an endless  number of horses that require 'in the saddle' training and exercise. The ones that are backed and going and have potential as equines for advanced clients need additional schooling in the arena to bring out their best. On your working abroad holiday or gap year destination you could finish off backing young stock that are ready for their first riding client. Why not come to South Africa and gain valuable work experience at a busy popular trail company riding on the beaches of the Wild Coast. A great destination for a gap year, riding everyday and working with horses, stunning beach riding on people friendly equines.

A very affordable holiday with riding on the beaches of the Wild Coast while gaining work experience and experiencing our different approach to teaching horse riding and learning about our holistic methods. A personalised African adventure in a home away from home atmosphere. Mkulu Kei horse trails is a trail company established in 1998 and personally guided by the owners, thereby giving you the attention and help you might require.

There are so many equestrian holidays and gap year vacations opportunities, offering riding work with horse's why choose us? Read on and find out.

"A real ride to many places at any paces"

At Cher-a-Don Mkulu Kei horseback riding holidays we only invite 1 to 6 volunteers at a time, into our home, to experience a personalised equine working experience, a volunteer gap holiday of a lifetime. No standing around waiting to ride, no cleaning tack and mucking out stables. At present we have 42 going working horses and more that need to get going, we need your help. Ride on the beach and in the game. Read Working Riding Gap Holiday

Get involved in fighting crime in South Africa helping troubled kids find new life skills using horses. See Equine Assisted Therapy/Learning

Photos of Volunteers on their Riding Working Holiday in South Africa

Learn equine behaviour Ride on the beach Have fun with horses

Horse that are people friendly Debs on her working holiday Relaxing with a stallion

Meet new friends Ride a young horse Help tack up

Mkulu Kei working holiday Ride without a saddle & bridle Help guide the rides

On a working gap experience Debs a volunteer on trail Learn to trust your horse

Riding blindfolded Work with horses Last ride before flight home

Communicate with equines Help at the stable yard Time to relax

Misty morning Learn how to ride Lots of horses to ride

Fillies on the lawn Learn to inject Teach horse riding

A volunteer on gap vacation 13 stallions round the house Not just riding

Easy horses to work with See a foal born Learn medical treatments

Lots of riding on the beach Help with pony rides Teach all ages to ride

Guide the horse rides Pass on your equine skills Lots of riding

Working horse holiday Learn join up skills Safari work experience

Development project Teach children to ride Birth of a foal

Work with foals Bond with a foal Your office

Riding experience Cantering on trail Jessie a volunteer Teach kids

Join our family Volunteering

Abused, rescued horses and foals that require handling on a regular basis and bonding with, grooming, touching and picking up feet. On your gap riding exchange program you will make a difference to our development boys and novice clients on the beach ride at Morgan Bay. At Mkulu Kei horse back riding holidays we take an incredible amount of first time riders and you could either help teach as you guide or take the more advanced riders on a different route and at a different pace. If you join us in our school holidays you are going to clock many riding hours in the saddle and will get to see why we need so many working horses. On your riding working gap vacation, join us on a trail ride over night at a reduced rate, a clever way to go on a safari trekking experience and extend your riding holiday. For those who book a working holiday longer than 6 months your four-day multi day riding trail is free!

Take a riding working gap between studies or from the office from a few weeks to 12 months. Maybe you are looking at a career working with horses or tourism? Burnt out and need a totally different experience, a change in direction. Take a break at a busy riding establishment offering different horse riding products.

At Mkulu Kei Horse Trails we offer you the opportunity to work with different aged horses, pass on your knowledge to others by working at a stud and riding stable. You will improve your knowledge and riding skills, learn our horse training methods and holistic approach. Or maybe you never had the chance to ride a horse and want to learn, join us on your working equestrian safari gap adventure.

You could be here volunteering on your coastal horse-working gap exchange riding vacation, or gap year, riding horses on the beach and gaining riding work experience. This is an opportunity to join an exchange working gap holiday experience in a south African family business, the more you put in the more you get back, help around the stable where you can make a difference.

Ever thought you would like to canter your horse along a beach, or play in the waves edge or deeper in the waves?

The sound of the horse's hoofs on the sand or splash of the water will live with you forever. Spray of the sea on your face, the wind in your hair, breath the fresh Eastern Cape air and feel the freedom. Combine your dream on a working holiday, work with horses and ride on stunning beaches. Take a volunteer gap at Mkulu Kei Horse Trails.

Working Exchange Riding Volunteering Gap Holiday a chance to ride horses all day.

Horse mad! Pony Nuts! Does that sound like you? Most of us are born horse mad;

A horse trekking safari gap vacation with Mkulu Kei horse trails that suits your available time, riding level and budget. On your horse-riding working holiday see nature at its best from the back of a horse suitable for your riding ability. The South African Wild Coast on an equestrian trail-riding experience is awesome horse riding country; see stunning views, pristine coastline, rural village, nature, birds, game, dolphins and whales.

This unique horse trail in South Africa offers a total riding holiday experience. A memorable horseback eco-adventure along the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa. For your African horse trekking eco adventure, equestrian working exchange volunteer gap vacation destination or children's pony camps.

Come Ride with Us ...

...and you will see rolling hills, rich Savannah grasslands and thick-forested valleys with multitudes of rivulets cascading down to rivers that eventually spill out onto quiet sandy beaches, fantastic high rise cliffs and spectacular rock formations that make the Wild Coast in South Africa one of the most beautiful places in the world. An incredible combination of cross-country horse riding and the exploration of our beautiful coastline.

We at Mkulu Kei Horse Trails, the two and the four legged would like to say a big Thank you to all our students for sending us their gap holiday and horse photos, these are your working holiday memories. Thank You Cheryl