Rockjumper Birding Tours proudly offers quality birding adventures, expertly guided by our passionate and experienced professional tour leaders. Our 300 scheduled tours annually explore the world’s prime birding areas, and our Tailor-made department can custom design your dream birding vacation.
Our leader to guest ratio is among the best in the industry. Some cruises are different, but typically our tours have about eight participants, providing RJ guests a personalized tour experience. 1 Leader : up to 8 guests, 2 Leaders : 8 – 12 guests
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Learn MoreThis tour was absolutely brilliant. A great group with excellent spotting skills, a guide who worked hard to make sure everyone got a view of every bird (not always easy with some of the real skulkers), local guides who knew exactly where to go and what to look for, and an itinerary designed to maximise birding time in each location. It far exceeded my expectations in terms of the number of rare and secretive bird species we saw, and our 'luck' held for the entire trip. I'll be singing Rockjumper and Adam's praises for some time.
I believe that everyone in our group enjoyed this tour. We made a clean sweep of the endemics, so the results couldn't have been any better. I was pleasantly surprised that the logistics worked out as well as they did. Ten islands in fourteen days doesn't leave much room for error, flight or ferry cancellations, bad weather, or uncooperative birds. Kudos to Ryan for pulling this off!
This tour will take you to the beautiful and interesting Cape Town area and many other areas of the country that tourists often overlook. There are many fairly long bus rides, but the bus was first rate for such a tour and the roads, with the exception of the gravel roads, were smooth and well maintained. Our leader Paul Josop really took care of us and went out of his way to make sure everything ran smoothly and that individual needs were met. His knowledge of the birds was phenomenal and he could ID everything by sight or sound. Very patient and intent on making sure everyone had a chance to see everything. A great personality and a caring person. We kept a bag of untouched breakfast and lunch foods and he made sure a needy person got it. Impressive. The lodging and food were very good to outstanding. Comfortable. At Haut and About B and B and other lodges the food was freshly prepared for the group and the dining settings had local atmosphere. The pelagic trip and trip to see the Gannets were of great interest, and everyday there were lifers to be seen. Final thoughts. This is more a birding trip than photography trip, altho I did get some good shots. I took my 600mm f4 and wished I had left it at home. Used it once. Too many stops and the blinds we did use were small. I typically used my Canon 100-500, often with a 1.4 teleconverter and others used the same lens. There was a Nikon 180-600 in use. All good choices. A great experience for my first time in Africa. Way to go, Rockjumper!
The Buru extension following the RWPI Cruise was fantastic. I feel sorry for those on the main tour that did not take this extension. The birds were fabulous, Glen was a superb guide, and the scenery great. Glen did a great job trying to get us on all the birds, even the most rare and elusive. Again, flexibility was a key element in the success of the trip. I can't think of anything about the trip that could be done to improve it.
It was a wonderful trip for us. Velma was pleasantly surprised with the number of animals that we saw. I enjoyed the variety of locations both on the water and land. There was only one day that the travel was very long. I have never done so much birding from a vehicle. Wade did an excellent job positioning the vehicle so that everyone could get on the bird. I would love to go on another trip with Wade. Accommodations were fun.
Our group leaders/guides worked hard all the time to ensure that the tour went smoothly and timely because instructions were clearly conveyed. There were incredible sightings and rare finds. The accomodation and meals were good but I have to commend our stay onboard the Dorinha, an excellent experience. I felt well looked after and enjoyed my first tour with Rockjumper immensely, thanks especially to Bradley Davis, Dusàn and driver Marinaldo.