South Africa 2015
This trip to South Africa was a regular two week package holiday with my wife, travelling to Johannesburg and then on to Cape Town. Our trip included some time in the Kruger NP before embarking on a coach journey through Swaziland to visit the battlefields of Rorkes Drift etc. and then whisked off by plane to George to travel through the Cape to taste wine, admire flowers and ultimately to reach the Cape Peninsula and Robben Island. We like to pack it in! My birding was done primarily in the Kruger but each hotel we stayed in offered a plethora of birds for me to struggle with. South Africa is a paradise where birds are concerned and I saw and missed as many species as I clearly identified which totalled 158. Out first hotel was a one night stay at the Indaba Hotel on the outskirts of Jo’burg. It was a good place to start as the hotel had a bird list of over 150 species and I spent about 2 hours wandering around the grounds and saw some great birds. African Wattled Lapw