Fat Birder's Travel

Many tours of South Africa concentrate on the Wakerstroom area and its endemics with extensions to one of the big game parks of the northwest such as Kruger National Park. This is usually combined with birding in the semi 'tropical' areas of KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa is such a large country of so many contrasts that it is virtually impossible to cover all the ground needed to see all its endemics in a couple of weeks. Indeed there are many 'Southern African endemics' which can be found in South Africa and more easily seen here than some of the other states in the southern part of the continent. Keen birders will either need a longer trip, or will need a second 'clean up' visit to the rest of the country to net all the birds they want to see.