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During our time of living in Pretoria in South Africa, we occasionally made trips to Cape Town and the surrounding regions. As none of us enjoyed overly long drives, we usually broke down the trip into two or three shorter segments. Because of its suitable location, we often ended up staying a night at the Karoo National Park.
This post was originally published on September 22, 2015. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to draw attention to our vast back catalog of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. There’s really only one thing that will roll me out of bed before first light on a Saturday: the possibility of seeing birds.
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