Birding tours from Cape Town to Cameroon and Madagascar, with the only African Birding Specialist
Birding Namibia
Namibia
must rate as one of Africa's greatest birding destinations:
fantastic game watching, numerous desert birding endemics,
sweeping scenery and a very high standard of accommodation,
to boot!
Our
trips combines the Namib desert experience (we'll have breakfast
atop a huge red dune while looking for Dune Lark) with the
huge contrast of the verdant Okavango Delta in Botswana
where we'll search for Pel's Fishing Owl along
forested backwaters in the
swamps.
We'll also spend a few days in the world famous Etosha National
Park, one of the most spectacular game parks in Africa. We make
an extra effort to stay in comfortable, sometimes luxurious accommodation,
that keeps us as close as possible to the best birding areas -
we even had the near-endemic and elusive Hartlaub's Francolin
on front of our rooms while brushing our teeth one morning on
a tour last year! All our previous trips have seen all the endemics
and near-endemics, including Herero Chat.
STANDARD
ITINERARY: NAMIBIA (9
days, Windhoek-Windhoek)
1. Windhoek to Walvis Bay
2. Full day around Walvis Bay
3. Drive from Walvis Bay to Uis
4. Birding the Brandberg; to Omaruru
5. Full day birding the Erongo Mountains
6. Drive to Etosha NP
7. Full day in Etosha NP
8. Full day in Etosha NP
9. Drive from Etosha NP to Windhoek
STANDARD
ITINERARY: CAPRIVI AND OKAVANGO (8
days, Windhoek-Windhoek)
1.
Windhoek to Grootfontein
2. Grootfontein Mahango Game Reserve
3. Mahango
4. Mahango
5. To Shakawe in the Okavango
6. Shakawe
7. Shakawe
8. Shakawe to Windhoek