Posts in Tag: Birding
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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. […]
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The Cape of Good Hope – A Must Do Tour
In my last post I described why Cape Town is Africa’s most beautiful city and how to visit in safety including the Victoria and Arthur waterfront district and fabled Table Mountain. In this post Alison and I will take a day tour to some of the most interesting sights close to Cape Town including the […]
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Handa Island – A Bird Lover’s Haven
Last summer, in preparation for driving Scotland’s great new scenic route the North Coast 500, I came across the name of Handa Island, more by happenstance than any foreknowledge on my part. I learned that it had once been a thriving community relying mostly on the bounty of the sea surrounding the island. Then in 1847, […]
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Monteverde – Costa Rica’s Amazing Cloud Forest
In 2018 year Alison and I visited Colombia and Panama on a tour with our favourite travel company Adventures Abroad. You can read about that amazing trip in any one of the 20 + posts on this website. Although the tour was continuing on to Costa Rica our original plan was to call it a […]