When you descend sharply into a valley at the base of a volcano, it only means one thing — you have a very intense workout
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Author: budgetbirders
It’s Time! An Update for 2021
One year later, almost exactly to the date, we are heading back to Africa to resume where we left off. I thought I might give
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Wild, Wild, Sumaco – Ecuador
Wild Sumaco is one of those places we wouldn’t normally visit. The $150 per person, per night price tag is outside of a budget birders’
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Giant Anteater!!!! Giant Reward! – Reserva Bigal, Ecuador.
So much to see, so little time. Honestly, one could spend a lifetime in the Amazon and still only see a fraction of the wildlife
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Christmas in the Cloud Forest – Ecuador
Travelling in the age of coronavirus restrictions is not easy. Keeping up with the status of transmission and the ever-changing laws can be confusing and
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Our Truck Goes on an Adventure… Without Us.
And just like that the man responsible for getting our car to the Tanzania/Malawi border was gone. Yes, you read that right. Gone. Our truck
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Finally Some Birding! @ The Rondo Plateau – Southern Tanzania
It was a nightmare to get to, but the Rhondo Plateau was a fantastic place to visit! Now if only we could decipher our bird books to identify our target batis!
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One Road Was Paved. The Other Was Caved.
I’ll let you guess what road we ended up on.
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Chasing Lumangwe Falls & Tanzania Masked Weaver
We aren’t ones to chase waterfalls, because we are too busy chasing birds. But sometimes exceptions are made. Any by definition, exceptions are rare and
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Headed Into A Papyrus Swamp – Northern Zambia
One of the unique qualities of our Africa birding trip is that we were headed to places off the beaten path, even for birders, to
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