Go Slow in Andalucia in Spring

This ‘Go Slow’ holiday is timed to coincide with the early spring-time northbound migration. What better way to spend a March morning than in the rolling sunlit hills of southern Spain, welcoming raptors and storks back from their African wintering grounds as they soar across the Straits of Gibraltar on their way north to breed?

Staying at the delightful rural farmhouse of Cortijo el Indiviso, we will be ideally placed to see the very best of the area’s wildlife and witness the spectacle of migration at close quarters, at a time of year when back home most are depending on central heating to ward off the chill of late winter. Each day we will make leisurely excursions, within easy reach of our base, to explore the variety of habitats close by. There will be plenty of time to relax and potter in the extensive grounds of our base, or simply relax by the bar and pool as migrating birds pass overhead.

A leisurely boat trip into the Strait itself will introduce you to its rich variety of cetaceans and marine-life. Long-finned Pilot Whales as well as Common, Striped and Bottlenose Dolphins are resident here, and at this time of year we stand a good chance of encountering migrating Sperm and Fin Whales, not to mention seabirds such as Cory’s, Scopoli’s and Balearic Shearwaters, Great Skua, and European and Wilson’s Storm Petrels.