Most people come to see the great flocks of flamingos.
We built our fire and camp on dunes by a mirror-calm lagoon from which huge flocks of flamingoes, herons and egrets would occasionally take flight.
The repetition undoubtedly replicates reality to some degree — flocks of flamingoes, standing in water, often line up in surprisingly regular ways — but it also manifests a desire for order and control over nature.
Jeep excursions, arranged through the tourist office, take visitors deep into the swamplands, which are home to hundreds of bulls (reared for fighting), semi-wild white horses and flocks of flamingoes.
We are happy to be here, to have finished paddling the dramatic last 60 miles of the Guadalquivir, through the vast tidelands (flocks of flamingos, flying fish) to the sea.
Other highlights include flocks of flamingos at Punta Cormorant, snorkelling with sea lions at Champion islet and world's quirkiest postbox at Post Office Bay, originally launched by homesick sailors in 1793.
He grew up in Addis Ababa, not far from alkaline lakes that teemed with naturally growing spirulina and flocks of flamingos, whose bright pink feathers are colored by pigments called carotenoids found in the algae, which is consumed by brine shrimp, which are eaten by the birds.
Sixteen hours and 300 miles later, we joined the rest of the teams on the banks of a reservoir outside Eilat: watching collared pratincoles hawking for insects, Lichtenstein's sandgrouse coming to drink, and flocks of flamingos flying in against a crescent moon to roost.
Grab a spot on a bench by the port to watch flocks of flamingos fly overhead in the evening before trying out local suckling pig: the super salty crispy crackling and juicy pork at Su Cumbidu (via Napoli 13, +39 070 670712) in the old town will not disappoint.
In the swooning microclimate of Fraser's brain the last month has been one long hot-air balloon ride to heaven, "Nessun Dorma" booming on loop from purple skies as he flies with flocks of flamingos into the dying September sun.
