Go Slow in Andalucia

This 7-day ‘Go Slow’ holiday is based at a delightful rural farmhouse, Cortijo el Indiviso, between Tarifa and Vejer de la Frontera. After a short flight to Gibraltar, we will enjoy the daily passage of migrating raptors heading to Africa for the winter, together with thousands of White Storks, Bee-eaters and Alpine Swifts, all, we hope, bathed in warm autumn sunshine. Migratory waders, terns and gulls will also be in evidence, whilst Crested Tit, Firecrest, Hawfinch, Serin and Short-toed Treecreeper are common in the Cork Oak woodland. All excursions will be within a short drive of our base and we will have plenty of time to relax, to walk amongst the grounds of the cortijo, or simply to lie by the pool as squadrons of migrating birds pass overhead. A relaxed boat trip into the Strait itself will let you get close and personal with some of the many cetacean species that can be found in autumn, such as Common, Bottlenose & Striped Dolphins and Long-finned Pilot Whale – even Fin, Sperm Whales and Orca are possible here. We hope that, after this holiday, you will not only feel relaxed and refreshed but also more confident with your raptor identification, having enjoyed a masterclass from your tour leaders beneath one of Europe’s great migration flyways.