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Travel Articles:
Follow the links to read tour accounts and other travel stories written by Leon Marais and published in South African newspapers and magazines.
South Africa's Limpopo Province offers much for the birding and wildlife enthusiast, with a wide variety of habitats to explore and awesome scenery to boot. Furthermore, it's the gateway to much of the rest of Southern Africa, and we often combine Limpopo with Botswana's Tuli Block, a privately-owned conservancy just across the river from South Africa. Read all about it in this article from The Saturday Star Travel, 6 December 2008:
http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/4753478
Mokala National Park is South Africa's newest addition to the National Park's collection. Situated in the arid savannah / karoo convergence zone near Kimberley in the Northern Cape, Mokala offers something new for the birder. Read Leon's article in the Africa Birds and Birding February / March 2009 edition.
Mokala National Park.
Wakkerstroom, one of South Africa's best grassland birding venues, and a regular stop on many of our tours; published in The Saturday Star Travel, April 14 2007.
http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/3781113
The British Birdwatching Fair 2007; published in The Saturday Star Travel, February 16 2008.
http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/4246933
An account of Giant's Castle Game Reserve, one of the stops on the Ornitholidays Lesotho, KZN and Free State Birding Tour; published in The Saturday Star Travel, February 23 2008.
http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/4284628
Other links:
Birdingart is a page for those interested in birds and the art of depicting them by hand. Check out the South African birds by Ed Aylmer.
www.birdingart.com
This is John Hall's website, dedicated to mammals and the 'where and how' to see the world's 5000 or so recorded species...or some of them anyway! And Southern Africa is a good starting place...
www.mammalwatching.com |
