Andalucian Guides Day Tours

Here are examples of two routes - both of them wonderful experiences.

Tour 1: The Birds and wildlife of The Strait of Gibraltar

Enjoy a full days quality birding around the very best sites on Andalucia's southern coast. Andalucian Guides will expertly guide you using intimate knowledge of the area. We also have up-to-date information on the whereabouts of current species, migratory and rare.

From spring flowers including Orchids, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, spiders and insects. Butterfly species are quite impressive both in beauty quantity. There are also lots of "African" plants and shrubs throughout the limestone mountains and in the massive Alcornocales Parque Natural.

If you'd like to specialise in raptors for a day tour then we'll take you to where Booted Bonelli's and Short-toed Eagles hunt. We can visit the haunts of Black shouldered Kite, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Osprey, Bald Ibis (re-introduction/hacking programme.) Marsh or Montagu's Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Lesser Kestrel.

If you would like to see an amazing variety of waders, terns and gulls then we can look for Collared Pratincoles, Green Sandpipers, Caspian Terns, Audouin's Gulls, to name but a few or all sorts of wonderful passerines, from Orphean Warblers, Rufous Bush Robin, Rock and Cirl Buntings, to Blue Rock Thrush and Tawny Pipit as well as Black-eared Wheatear and not forgetting the Little Bustard and Stone Curlews of Cadiz province!

Book Stephen Daly or Stephen Knapp for a full day's birding around the Strait of Gibraltar, the Costa de la Luz and beyond.

Montagu's Harrier

White Storks and Cattle Egrets

Northern Bald Ibis

Bonelli's Eagle

Chameleon

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Tour 2:  Culture and Vultures - The Great Safari Tour

Andalucia has a rich variety of wildlife, history and culture from the Phoenicians to the Spanish Civil War. Gaze over the the 'Pillars of Hercules' and learn about ancient civilisations. This general nature and history day tour gives clients a real "day to remember". Lizards, Bee-eaters, Preying mantis, all kinds of butterflies, Griffon Vultures, Roe and Red Deer and Iberian black pigs are just some of the creatures waiting to be found and perhaps we'll have a chance to watch the cork-oak harvest in the huge Alcornocales forest during summer. We will see some of the spectacular geology of the area, as Africa still pushes northwards against Europe! We can also visit some minor Roman ruins, Moorish lime kilns and water cisterns as well as the option to visit the larger Roman ruins of the ancient city of Baelo Claudia opposite the Moroccan coast. If you have *children coming along, the beach is right in front of the Roman ruins (see photo below), so if they don't want to tag along they can have fun until we collect them after the visit.

Griffon Vulture

Moorish Artrwork

Southern Swallowtail

Ruins at Baelo Claudia

Collared Pratincole   

On both tours we stop for lunch at a typical local Spanish venta (restaurant) which costs 8/9 Euros per head extra. This is great Andalucian cooking - 3 courses   with wine or soft drinks included!
Tour normally starts at 9am and ends at 6pm, meeting at La Barca de Vejer. The  larger vehicle takes a maximum of 8 passengers. The other vehicle is a Mitsubishi 4x4.

If you are on holiday in the area and would like to book a guide and vehicle for a single day, please contact us above by email or telephone.  Office (0034) 956 432 316     or

                                                       Mobile (0034) 647 713 641