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Birding Mkuze

10,000 Birds

Mkuze Game Reserve is in the Eastern part of South Africa, about 5 hours away from Johannesburg, and one of the best places I have ever been to for bird photography. And drying on a giraffe with your friends. Alone time. Taking a bath …. What a life. Kingfishers – the poor man`s Pittas? African Pygmy Kingfisher.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

10,000 Birds

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Madikwe; Paradise Restored

10,000 Birds

Madikwe may have been farmland once upon a time but these days it has been fully restored as an astonishing game reserve. I never get bored of Giraffes. I’m so glad I did. I did find my Yellow-throated Sandgrouse at Madikwe! Springbok were one of my targets, and I got them! Or Cheetahs. Oh, this is a bird site, almost forgot.