Archived destinations
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South Africa's South Western Cape
The Hermanus area
Hermanus is one of the best places in the world to watch whales close to land, southern right whales especially. At Cape Agulhas, the southern most tip of Africa, seabirds could include the tiny Damara tern.
Harold Porter Botanical Garden may turn up new bird species such as black eagle and the stunning paradise flycatcher. Scrub holds Victorin's warbler, a speciality of the area. Like many of our stops on this holiday, Harold Porter boasts an excellent tearoom. Nearby, we will stop to look for the enigmatic Cape rockjumper.
The Overberg farmlands and adjacent coastal areas are the haunt of South Africa's national bird, the blue crane, as well as being good country for raptors, such as jackal buzzard, martial eagle and secretary bird, and bustards. Indigenous forest at Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve is dominated by ironwood, with much stinkwood and yellowwood; it has forest birds such as forest canary, blue-mantled flycatcher, yellow-throated woodland warbler and perhaps even lesser or greater honeyguide!
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Whale-watching at Hermanus
Southern right whale
