Last week, six guests from South Africa enjoyed the thrill and excitement of playing paintball at Barangay Small Tabinay, a ten minutes tricycle ride from Muelle.

The South African gangster in the jungle

The guests are Louwrence Erasmus, Mark Offer, father and sons Alex, Martin & Almar Scheeper and Sean & Mike Leonard. They have been friends for a long time now and they have all been working together at the UAE Airport for more than six years now. They also used to live together with their families.

Looking like pros...

Paintball is ideal for everyone one who likes competition and action. The game requires a lot of strategizing and great skills to out maneuver your opponents and this is where the key to winning the game lies.

The group was divided into two teams. The green team was made up of Alex, Sean and Mike while the black team was Martin, Almar, Louwrence and Mark. Safety precautions and important details were also given in the briefing before the game. One of the rules which everybody should remember is that if you get hit 3 times you are out of the game, raise your gun so your opponent won’t hit you anymore. The aim is to get the opponent’s flag inside their compound.

Mark gets the Green Team's flag

At 10am, the war games started, for the first game the black team needed to defend their flag but the green team successfully snatched it. Next game was the green team’s turn to defend the flag and they successfully defended it. The two teams played more games but the green team eventually out maneuvered the black team and they eventually won.

According to our South African guests they really had a great time. Even if some of them got some scrapes and bruises with all the running and hiding around, they had a great time and enjoyed it so much that they would like to try it again.