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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

10,000 Birds

I usually do not write much about traveling to and from birding places but my friend and I arrived in Malelane in the afternoon. The room was one stuffed with pillows – it seems some landlords think the more pillows are in a room, the cozier the place is. Fortunately, we were there for the birds, not for the room.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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The series of birding workshops and meetings continued across the map, through Ulcinj, Montenegro, then Samobor, Croatia and Stip (described here ), North Macedonia, leading to Brussels, the unofficial capital of EU. Before heading higher, above the tree-line, I asked our landlord if there were any minefields to be aware of.

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