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)
- Durbanville and surrounds / City of Cape Town (various outings and routes)
- Strandfontein Sewage Works and Rondevlei Nature Reserve
- Table Bay Lagoon & Rietvlei Nature Reserve
- Stellenbosch / Kuilsriver Cape Winelands
- Rooiels Overberg
- Vanderstelpas Overberg
- Napier Overberg
- West Coast (various outings and routes)
- Koringberg Swartland
- Helderberg Nature Reserve
- Darling Swartland
- Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Ceres Witzenberg Cape Winelands
- Platbos Overberg
- Greyton Overberg
- Table Mountain National Park
- 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
- Riebeeck Valley Swartland
- Swellendam Overberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.