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8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena
8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena
8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena
8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena
8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena

8-Day Private Tour Birds of Alentejo and Sierra Morena

By Wild Doñana
Free cancellation available
Price is €1,400 per adult
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Overview

Birds of the Alentejo and Western Sierra Morena, it is a trip with a duration of 8 days and 7 nights of accommodation.

We will visit in depth the Western Sierra Morena in Spain and part of the Alentejo. We visit the Noudar y Herdade da Contenda Natural Park in Portugal, and the Dehesas de Sierra Morena Biosphere Reserve.

There we will find beautiful landscapes with an exquisite fauna, which is a very rich area for vultures and other birds of prey, which facilitates their sighting.

At all times you will be accompanied by a guide, who is expert and very experienced, who will inform you of all the characteristics of the tour. Our guide will inform you about the local traditions and their history, also about the characteristics of the birds along with the most relevant details of the fauna.

Activity location

  • Zufre
    • Zufre, Spain, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Zufre
    • Zufre, Spain, Spain

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Birds and Nature of Alentejo and Sierra Morena, 8 Days / 7 Nights
  • Activity duration is 8 days8d8d
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 08:00
Price details
€1,400.00 x 1 Adult€1,400.00

Total
Price is €1,400.00
Until Wed, 25 Dec

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedWater throughout the tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedIncludes transport, accommodation and meals
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance fees to all national parks and nature reserves.
  • What's includedWhat's includedBinoculars and spotting scopes

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Arrival and beginning of the adventure
  • 2 stops
  • Meals: snacks
  • Accommodation: Accommodation in Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park - Aracena
Zufre
  • 2h
Depending on the schedule, you can make stops along the way for bird watching in the countryside and the beautiful town of Zufre.
Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park
  • 2h
Arrival at the hotel in the Sierra de Aracena. Accommodation and dinner followed by a presentation about the trip.
Day 2: Visit of the ZEPA of Moura and Barrancos.
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, snacks, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Accommodation in Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park - Aracena
Barrancos
  • 8h
Today we cross the border to visit the ZEPA of Moura and Barrancos. Of the water courses, among which the Ardila River stands out. Sheep and cattle grazing abounds, and there are relatively small properties with olive groves and vineyards in scattered populations. In the morning, we visit the Noudar Nature Park, where a vegetation cover is maintained close to what would be original, as if there had never been any human intervention. They are rich, steep and difficult forests, which still keep Noudar's greatest secret. The richness and diversity of this territory results from its geographic isolation, low human density and because it is located in a transition zone between Spain where the landscape of the Sierra Morena. Stop for lunch in Barrancos. In the afternoon we will visit Herdade da Contenda, a public estate with restricted access where a local guide will accompany us. It is an important area especially for many raptors, with an emphasis on vultures and great eagles.
Day 3: Visit to the Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park.
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, snacks, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Accommodation in Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park - Aracena
Aracena
  • 8h
It is time to stretch your legs and take advantage of one of the many walking routes that the Natural Park offers us. Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche, a true paradise for hiking enthusiasts. Depending on the time of year, we can start by visiting the castle of Aracena, in whose ruins some wintering birds take refuge. In addition, the hill where the castle sits is a watchtower that allows us to enjoy beautiful views and scan the sky to observe the awakening of the first birds of prey. Afterwards, our walk continues along one of the centuries-old trails that start from Aracena, in this case towards the town of Corteconcepción along the 4.4-kilometer El Tornero path that will allow us to travel a great diversity of landscapes; from the holm and cork oak forests, to the chestnut and olive trees and the fruit orchards, passing through some stretches of riverside vegetation associated with the nearby Fuente del Rey stream.
Day 4: Visit to the Aracena and Bajos del Jádraga reservoir
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, snacks, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Accommodation - Sierra Norte Natural Park - Cazalla de la Sierra
Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park
  • 8h
On our last day in Sierra de Aracena, we return to perform a route by car with some walks through the Valley of the Buervas, better known today as the Aracena reservoir. This route will take us to know it from different accesses, making it possible to spot the osprey or enjoy the breeding colony of grey herons and great cormorants. The situation and breadth of the valley on which the reservoir sits make it a good enclave to see soaring raptors and other migrating birds. After lunch, we move to our other base camp in the Sierra Norte Natural Park making a stop at the Bajos del Jádraga, with beautiful views over the Viar river canyon whose northern mouth can be seen from this viewpoint with enormous scenic appeal.
Day 5: Visit of the Cañada Real de las Merinas livestock route in the municipality of Guadalcanal
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, snacks, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Accommodation - Sierra Norte Natural Park - Cazalla de la Sierra
Guadalcanal
  • 8h
Unlike the Sierra de Aracena, where the best places To observe birds they are scattered throughout the Park, in Sierra Norte there are places where we can see almost all the large birds that populate these mountains at a glance. This is the case of the Cañada Real de las Merinas livestock route in the municipality of Guadalcanal, in whose Llanos de Guaditoca we find one one of the best places in Andalusia to see raptors. In the afternoon, we take another Cañada Real, that of La Senda, which penetrates the province of Seville surrounded by a landscape that participates both in mountain characters, as well as elements more typical of the Extremadura pseudo-steppes, in an open and dry valley in the broom and oleanders predominate.
Day 6: Visit to the Sierra de Hornachuelos Natural Park.
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, snacks, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Accommodation - Sierra Norte Natural Park - Cazalla de la Sierra
Parque Natural de Hornachuelos
  • 8h
  • Admission ticket included
Our long route today will take us to the province of Córdoba. The Sierra de Hornachuelos Natural Park houses one of the most valuable representations of Mediterranean forest on the Peninsula, combined with meadows and pine forests. The Bembézar river and its tributaries, home to an endangered endemic fish (the Jarabugo Anaecypris hispanica), make up these mountains. Quality sightings of the black vulture are almost guaranteed, although you can also see the imperial, royal and Bonelli's eagles, the European short-toed, the white wheatear (in spring) or the long-tailed warbler and carrasqueña. Deer are easily spotted, as is the beautiful strawberry tree butterfly Charaxes jasius. After eating we continue our circular route in the direction of return to the Sierra Norte.
Day 7: Visit of the Sierra Norte Natural Park.
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, breakfast, snacks
  • Accommodation: Accommodation - Sierra Norte Natural Park - Cazalla de la Sierra
Sierra Norte Nature Park
  • 8h
  • Admission ticket included
On our last day in the field we will visit some of the most interesting points to observe nature in the Sierra Norte Natural Park. We start with the Cerro del Hierro Natural Monument, the best-known and busiest place in the Sierra. Its unique and photogenic appearance is the product of spectacular karst modelling. We will walk under sharp peaks or needles that, like trees, form a kind of stone forest whose most exceptional inhabitants are the king swift, the redstart and the black stork, accompanied by the rocker lonely, the mountain bunting, the screeching sparrow, the swift kaffir or the dáuric swallow. This is also the best place in the region to look for orchids and see fossils. After visiting this unique place, we headed towards Lora del Río to begin a tour of the Setefilla Sanctuary, skirting the José Torán reservoir until we reached Puebla de los Infantes.
Day 8: Farewell.
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: lunch, breakfast
  • Accommodation: Not included
Embalse de Melonares
  • 4h
Farewell, back to Seville we will visit the Melonares reservoir, an artificial wetland of recent creation but of great interest to birds.

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    • Zufre, Spain, Spain

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    • Zufre, Spain, Spain

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