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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Tag: Budget birding
No One Has Time To Get Sick — Birding Dzalanyama
Getting sick while travelling is no joke. Anyone who’s ever had to run to the bathroom might find solace in a clean, porcelain throne. Unfortunately
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Indonesia – Sumatra, Aceh – Searching for a Needle In a Haystack
What is the smallest commercial plane you’ve ever been on? I have been on quite a few small planes in my day, but when it
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Indonesia – Time For a Boat Trip! – Bangkaru & Babi
Indonesia is an island nation most famous among international tourists for the beautiful paradise that is the island of Bali. But let me tell you,
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Indonesia – Gunung Gede – Three Days Up A Mountain
If I’m being honest, Ross is the brains behind most of our birding adventures. While I am definitely a lister myself, my life list isn’t
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India – The Little Rann of Kutch
Desert habitat, while beautiful in its own right, looks amazingly barren upon first glance. The truth is, it is quite barren, at least relatively speaking.
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India – Siana – Where Ross hits 6,000
Ross Gallardy will be the first to tell you that 6,000 life birds isn’t a real milestone. Six thousand is just another number on the
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India – Jaisalmer – THE Great Indian Bustard
This whole trip to India started because of one particular bird but along the way we had been birding a few locations (here and here) searching for
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India – Tal Chappar
After a long drive, a few snacks for dinner, another night in an adequate but far from clean hotel, and an hour more of driving in the
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India – Harike – Indian Beginnings
As you probably read in my last post, we were birding India with a few friends. The fact that it was the wee hours of
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