Trip: The World Part 4
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SPAIN | Friday, 23 Dec 2022 | Views [131]
WE ARRIVED IN MADRID ON THE wrong side of Winter with cloudy skies and damp chill replacing the sunshine of Tenerife. To make matters worse we had to wake at four in the morning for our 6:30 flight, followed by a 30-minute bus ride into town and a kilometer ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 22 Dec 2022 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Monday, 19 Dec 2022 | Views [123]
AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, TENERIFE has some endemic bird species—why else would Connie be here? While some are unimpressive and easy to find, others require long drives to remote areas—sometimes twice.
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SPAIN | Saturday, 17 Dec 2022 | Views [139]
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, so say the brochures, is “the most beautiful city you must go to in Tenerife.” On the other hand, they say that La Orotava is “a town you must visit in Tenerife.” With two weeks to spend and a car at ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 11 Dec 2022 | Views [92]
FOR YEARS WE HAVE HEARD BRITS RAVE about their winter holidays in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. So after Hurricane Ian blew away our Florida plans, we thought we would give it a whirl. We were able to score an entire 4-seat row on the ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 8 Dec 2022 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Wednesday, 23 Nov 2022 | Views [130]
MAYBE YOU’RE WONDERING WHERE WE’VE been since Brazil. Or probably not. Anyway, we had airline tickets from Rio to Miami and were planning to stay in Fort Myers Beach until January but Hurricane Ian blew those plans away along with our condo ... Read more >
PANAMA | Sunday, 13 Nov 2022 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Wednesday, 9 Nov 2022 | Views [132]
WE DECIDED THAT A FEW DAYS IN RIO after the birding trip would give us a chance to rest up and regain control of our lives. We stayed at the Windsor California Hotel in Copacabana, an ideal choice with the best breakfast I’ve had in Brazil. The ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Monday, 7 Nov 2022 | Photo Gallery
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BRAZIL | Sunday, 6 Nov 2022 | Views [161]
AND NOW FOR THE NUMBERS. This was our 8 th guided birding trip, the 1 st with Tropical Birding. There were 4 paying customers, Eduardo driving and Andrés guiding. We were on the road for 20 days, stayed in 8 different accommodations ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Thursday, 3 Nov 2022 | Views [129]
HAVING CHECKED OFF ALL THE TARGET SPECIES, we moved our vigil from the rainforests of southeastern Brazil to the grassland savannas around Cańastra National Park. We broke up another long drive with pee-breaks, lunch and a stop at a park in Belo Horizonte ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 2 Nov 2022 | Views [144]
ALGULHUS NEGRAS NATIONAL PARK has some of the highest peaks in southern Brazil. The drive took us up to 7000 feet elevation on a truly terrible road several hours from Hotel do Ypâ and required a 4WD, not our luxury van. We crammed into the only ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 1 Nov 2022 | Views [122]
CHANGES TO THE ITINERARY MUST BE UNANIMOUS—unless all the target birds have been seen. So when Andres asked if we would be willing to forego the scheduled four-hour detour back to the steamy coast and then through Rio just to see another antwren ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Sunday, 30 Oct 2022 | Views [148]
NOT ALL OF THE BIRDS IN BRAZIL are as amazing and colorful as hummingbirds, trogons, tanagers and toucans. Nor are they as easily spotted. Take “antbirds,” for instance, a group of small, dull-colored birds that skulk around on the shady ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Friday, 28 Oct 2022 | Views [127]
AFTER A SEVEN-HOUR DRIVE from the coast we perched at Guapi Assu Bird Lodge for three nights. It’s a purpose-built lodge on lovingly restored wetlands with views of the distant Serra dos Ôrgãos mountains. Thomas greeted us in English ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Wednesday, 26 Oct 2022 | Views [134]
THERE ARE MORE THAN 350 species of hummingbirds—nearly one for each day of the year. All are “New World” species, found only in the Americas. We have seen hummingbirds everywhere in Brazil—the country claims more than 80 species—... Read more >
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 25 Oct 2022 | Views [183]
THE MOST POPULAR BIRDING TRIPS TO BRAZIL go to the Amazon and the Pantanal, two regions we have already visited independently. Instead we opted for Tropical Birding’s Atlantic Rainforest and Savannah trip. It’s our first time with Tropical ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Thursday, 20 Oct 2022 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Monday, 26 Sep 2022 | Views [137]
WHAT’S ON YOUR TRAVEL “BUCKET LIST?” We have been everywhere from Antartica to Zimbabwe so ours is more of a “been there, done that” list, filled with tick marks and a few scribbles of final additions in the margins.... Read more >
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