TOUR ITINERARIES

tOUR iTINERARIES

 About Let’s Go Birding Guiding and Tours Itineraries

 

Let’s Go Birding South Africa is a leading professional birding tour company for local and international birding enthusiasts offering  Let’s Go Birding Tours and Trips. Jacques is a qualified Bird Guide in South Africa, and is curretly Bird Guiding in the Western Cape. We cater for both small groups and private individuals. We offer custom design birding-tour packages to fit your budget, dream birding vacation or short visit to the Western Cape or South Africa. We emphasize & strive to give you a worry-free, safe, well-planned birding tour with limited travel to maximize your experience. 

LGB understands that visitors to Cape Town might want to see more than just the birds on their list and we can fully customize your stay by including some of Cape Town’s iconic landmarks, destinations and experiences.

We can help… we custom design your trip to reach your target birds!!

Your Target Birds, Our Strength”

 

itinerary’s & Other Tours

Let’s Go Birding Day Trips

Let’s go birding offer several day trips within the Western Cape, for both local and international birding enthusiasts, both small groups and private individuals. Our trips are designed around the needs of our clients and their particular Bird Species. 

Small Groups of up to 8 people and Private individuals 

Destinations: (For more detailed information on these outings, please send enquiries to letsgobirdingsa@gmail.com)

  1. Durbanville and surrounds / City of Cape Town (various outings and routes)
  2. Strandfontein Sewage Works and Rondevlei Nature Reserve
  3. Table Bay Lagoon & Rietvlei Nature Reserve
  4. Stellenbosch / Kuilsriver Cape Winelands
  5. Rooiels Overberg
  6. Vanderstelpas Overberg
  7. Napier Overberg
  8. West Coast (various outings and routes)
  9. Koringberg Swartland
  10. Helderberg Nature Reserve
  11. Darling Swartland
  12. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
  13. Ceres Witzenberg Cape Winelands
  14. Platbos Overberg
  15. Greyton Overberg
  16. Table Mountain National Park
  17. Fynbos: The endemic Big 6 (2 day) tour: Hunting your 6 fynbos target birds that includes: Cape Sugarbird, Orange-breasted Sunbird, Cape Siskin, Protea Canary, Victorin’s Warbler and Cape Rockjumper
  18. Riebeeck Valley Swartland
  19. Swellendam Overberg

 

Lets Go Birding South Africa
Lets Go Birding South Africa

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

10-Day Western Cape Birding Tour

Day 1: Cape Peninsula

Day 2: Hottentots Holland & False Bay

Day 3: Cape Peninsula

Day 4: West Coast

Day 5: Swartland & Tankwa Karoo

Day 6: Tankwa Karoo

Day 7: Agulhas Plain

Day 8: De Hoop Nature Reserve

Day 9: Wilderness/Garden Route

Day 10: Wilderness

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Let go birding bird tours in South Africa Nerina Trogan

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

5-Day Garden Route Birding Tour

Day 1: Wilderness

Day 2: Plettenberg Bay – Nature’s Valley

Day 3: Plettenberg Bay – Nature’s Valley

Day 4: Tsitsikamma National Park

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let go birding garden Route birding tours south africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

3-Day Grootvadersbosch & De Hoop Nature Reserve Birding Tour

Day 1: Swellendam & Grootvadersbosch 

Day 2: Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve 

Day 3: De Hoop Nature Reserve 

 

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Secretary Bird with Lets Go birding Birding Tours South africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

3-Day Cape Town Birding Tour

Day 1: Cape Peninsula

Day 2: Hottentots Holland & False Bay

Day 3: Cape Peninsula

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let go Birding bird tours in South Africa Orange Breasted Sunbird

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

2-Day West Coast Bird Tour

Day 1: West Coast 

Day 2: West Coast 

 

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Lets Go Birding Tours South Africa Cape Town

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

3-Day Tankwa Karoo Birding Tour

Day 1: Swartland and Tankwa Karoo

Day 2: Tankwa Karoo

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let go birding garden Route birding tours south africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

7 – Day Northern Cape Tour 

Day 1: Cape Town to Springbok

Day 2: Alexandra Bay

Day 3: Aggeneys / Poffadder/ Onseepkans

Day 4: Augrabies Falls National Park

Day 5: Brandvlei 

Day 6: Calvina

Day 6: Head back to Cape Town, with birding along the way

 

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Birding Tours South Africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

8-Day St Lucia Birding Tour

Day 1: Umdoni Park

Day 2: Umdoni Park, Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve & Ingeli Forest

Day 3: Sani Pass & Lesotho

Day 4: Eshowe

Day 5: Eshowe

Day 6: St Lucia

Day 7: Isimangaliso Wetland Park

Day 8: Durban and Return to CT

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Lets go birding tour with Jacques to Kwazulu Natal Birding Tours South Africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

4-Day West Coast Bird & Flower Tour

Day 1: West Coast National Park

Day 2: Vanrhynsdorp

Day 3: Nieuwoudville

Day 4: Akkerendam Nature Reserve

 

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Secretary Bird with Lets Go birding Birding Tours South africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

7 Day Mokala National Park Tour

Day 1: Karoo National Park

Day 2: Khoisan Karoo Conservancy

Day 3: Khoisan Karoo Conservancy

Day 4: Mokala National Park

Day 5: Mokala National Park

Day 6: Karoo National Park

Day 7: Head back to Cape Town, with birding along the way 

 

Download the full Itinerary 

 

Lets go birding tour with Jacques to Kwazulu Natal Birding Tours South Africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

 Let’s Go Birding Tours

6 Day Khoisan Karoo Conservancy Tour

Day 1: Karoo National Park

Day 2: Khoisan Karoo Conservancy

Day 3: Khoisan Karoo Conservancy

Day 4: Khoisan Karoo Conservancy

Day 5: Karoo National Park

Day 6: Heading back to Cape Town, with birding along the way 

 

Download the full Itinerary 

 

Secretary Bird with Lets Go birding Birding Tours South africa

Please include your list of birds you would like to twitch, to assist us in customizing your bird guiding tour. 

You can download the SA Bird Species list from Birdlife South Africa: https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BLSA-Checklist-2021-Final.pdf 

What Clients Are Saying

I have been birding with Jacques in the Let’s Go Birding group for the last month or so. I joined because I have been a long-term admirer of his truly superb bird photography, his many Facebook birding posts, plus his very helpful annotated bird ID pictures. I have found him an excellent bird guide, being both knowledgeable and enthusiastic.

He knows which spots to go to find different bird species, and liaises well with local experts. He is also very patient, encouraging and helpful with relative novices. He allows plenty of time to get good observations and photos. I wish him all the best in his chosen goal of becoming a professional bird guide.

Gillian Ainslie

For the first time visiting South Africa, I had a long list of target species and only a small window of time to see them. In the months leading up to my trip, Jacques helped me to decide which birds were reasonable to seek out and which ones were unrealistic. Then he put together a custom 2-day itinerary to help maximize the number of species seen. By the time my girlfriend and I arrived in Cape Town, I felt a strong rapport with Jacques and knew that we were on the same page.

I was not disappointed: not only did Jacques take me to some of the most beautiful places in the region, we also saw nearly every bird on my list and got some of the best bird photos of my life! Jacques sure knows his local birds, and entertained us with interesting facts about all the local wildlife and culture. He also had great choices for venues when we stopped for lunch. Jacques showed up on time, made us feel safe and welcome for the duration of our birding experience, and returned us to our accommodation at a reasonable time as well. I can’t wait to return to South Africa to go birding with Jacques again.

Aron Smilley

My “Let’s Go Birding” ondervinding saam met Jacques was alles net positief. Hy het n wonderlike gawe om van beginners tot senior burgers met die grootste geduld leiding te gee om verskillende voël spesies te indentifiseer, om hulle in te lig oor waarna n mens moet kyk, asook die groep te leer oor hul gedrag, eetgewoontes, nesbou tegnieke en waar om na watter voëlsoorte te soek. Tydens elke geleentheid was hy goed voorbereid en het in beide Afrikaans en Engels leiding gegee, en ek het nooit teleurgesteld huis toe gegaan nie, met n paar nuwe spesies afgemerk op my lysie.

Marietjie vd Westhuizen

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