TOUR GUIDING NOTES

3. Survival skills

Definition of Terms
Bush craft: The skills needed to survive in the bush, and by extension in any natural environment
Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants, known as campers, leave urban 
areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights, 
usually at a campsite, which may have cabins. Camping may involve the use of a tent, a primitive 
structure, or no shelter at all
Survival skills: are techniques a person may use for an indefinite duration in order to survive a 
dangerous situation
Wilderness: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition. Also a large wild tract of land 
covered with dense vegetation or forests.
Navigation: the skill or process of plotting a route and directing a ship, aircraft and motor vehicle 
along it. Navigation is about getting from one place to another. It is no more difficult than using 
the following few basic skills