Kruger Park Birding Tour

Panoramic Route

     

Leaving the Kruger National Park early in the morning, you make your way back to Johannesburg via the J.G. Strydom Tunnel, where you will hope to see one of only a few breeding pairs of Taita Flacons within Southern Africa. Scanning the skies you may also be lucky enough to see both Cape Vultures and Verreaux’s Eagles soaring above.

From here your next stop will be the spectacular Blyde River Canyon – 3rd largest in the world. Keep your eyes open for Jackal Buzzard, Cape Bunting and Mocking Cliff-Chat.

Returning to the main road our next diversion will be through the Verloren Vlei Valley. This is a protected area and being at an altitude of 2000m is home to a few very select species. Here we will hope to find Cape Rock Thrush, Yellow-breasted Pipit, Southern Bald Ibis, Gurney’s Sugarbird and if you are lucky some Wattled Cranes.

Your lunch stop will be in the town of Dullstroom. It's a good 2 hour drive back to Jo'burg or Pretoria from Dullstroom, with making one last stop at a roadside pan, where you will hope to find Cape Shoveler, Lesser and Greater Flamingo’s and provided it is the summer a host of other waders too.

On arriving in Jo'burg, you will be dropped off at your hotel or at Oliver Tambo Int Airport, at approx 6.00pm.

 

Note

As the Northern Drakensberg Mountains are close to the Kruger National Park; we include driving through this region on the way back to Jo'burg or Pretoria.

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