The village of Dullstroom is in the highlands of the Mpumalanga Province above the Drakensberg Escarpment, east of Johannesburg. The area surrounding the village is mostly above 2 000m above sea level and the habitat is mainly open montane grassland with some rocky outcrops and a number of marshes and privately owned man-made trout dams. Dullstroom is an excellent birding area and holds many grassland endemics. We know this area intimately and visit it frequently on many of our tours.

Target Species:
• Southern Bald Ibis
• Blue Crane
• Wattled Crane
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Sentinel Rock-Thrush
• Eastern Long-billed Lark
• Knysna Turaco
• Gurney's Sugarbird
• Cape Vulture
• Yellow-breasted Pipit
• Cape Eagle Owl

Situated on the Mpumalanga escarpment in the northern Drakensberg Mountains. This 16km Blyde River Canyon is awe-inspiring with spectacular viewing sites. The Blyde River has cut a deep gorge, over millions of years, to a depth of 700 metres with towering cliffs and peaks of quartzite and shale on either side. There is dense woodland and forest in the gorges and Protea veld and grassland on the escarpment.

The only Taita Falcons in South Africa are in this area.

Target species:
• Taita Falcon
• Black Stork
• Southern Bald Ibis
• Cape Rock-Thrush
• Gurney's Sugarbird
• Cape Vulture
• Swee Waxbill
• Cut-throat Finch
• Narina Trogon
• Forest Canary

This enormous National Park (2million hectares) is situated in the Lowveld of Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga. The area consists of flat, gently undulating plains lying at about 300m above sea level, occasionally broken by scattered inselbergs. The Park is rectangular in shape and stretches 320 kilometres from north to south. The Kruger National Park is drained from west to east by eight major rivers originating on the great South African escarpment.

There is a wide habitat diversity due to the complex underlying geology of the region, compounded by the fact that the Park stretches through three degrees of latitude. The dominant vegetation is deciduous savanna, with considerable variation ranging from dense forest to open shrubby grassland.

The Park supports more than 490 bird species, about 55 % of the species found in the entire southern African Sub-region.

Target species:
• African Finfoot
• Saddle-billed Stork
• White-crowned Lapwing
• Black Coucal
• Hooded and Lappet-faced Vulture
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Martial Eagle
• Dickinson's Kestrel
• Grey-headed Parrot
• Tropical Boubou and Böhms Spinetail