Posts in Tag: Birding
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Otago Peninsula – One of New Zealand’s Finest Day Trips
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand we landed in the southern city of Dunedin which is the gateway to one of New Zealand’s must visit places, the Otago Peninsula. In this post we’ll spend the day exploring Otago starting with a visit to New Zealand’s only castle and following […]
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Dunedin And Nugget Point
We’ve spent the last few days on this Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand in southwest corner of South Island which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to four national parks. In the last post we visited Doubtful Sound, one of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth. It will be hard […]
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Doubtful Sound and Queenstown
This is my fourth post from New Zealand’s South Island as part of the Adventures Abroad tour of this amazing country. In the first two we visited the Marlborough wine country, took a train ride through the Southern Alps, glimpsed Franz Josef glacier and took a jet boat up the Haast River before arriving in […]
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Monfrague – Birding in Extremadura
This is my fifth and final post from the 2023 SATW trip to the Extremadura region of Spain. In the first post I highlighted the many reasons to visit this off the beaten track destination in western Europe. In the second I focused on the amazing Roman ruins in and around the city of Merida. […]
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Extremadura – Seven Great Reasons to Visit
This is the first of several posts from my recent trip to the Extremadura area of western Spain, a place that is not on most tourist’s radar, but really should be. Comprised of the two provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres the Extremadura has just over a million people living in area about the size of […]
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Kicker Rock – San Cristobal by Boat
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Experiental tour of Ecuador we landed on the Galapagos island of San Cristobal and immediately were immersed in the amazing wildlife for which the archipelago is so famous. In this post we’ll board a small boat and continue to look for more unique species on land and […]
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Hacienda Zuleta – Where the Condors Are
Hacienda is one of those words that just slips off your tongue and evokes images of bygone romance in colonial Latin America. I first fell in love with it as a kid watching the great Guy Williams as Zorro in the series set in pre-independence from Spain southern California. His father owned a large hacienda […]
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Sheffield Mills Eagle Watch
We are in the middle of winter and a pandemic at the same time. What the heck can a person do to get some enjoyment out of life during these difficult times? Here’s one suggestion for both avid birders and people who have only a passing interest in birds, but are fascinated by the size […]
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Monteverde Redux -The Second Time Around
I first visited Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica in 2018 and was blown away by its beauty and birdlife which I described in this post. I have returned early in 2020 on the Central America trip led by Victor Romagnoli for Adventures Abroad the same Canadian company I traveled with on the first visit. […]