Visit the Makana Botanical Gardens in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape Things To Do

Visit the Makana Botanical Gardens (Grahamstown)

Categories: Birding / Parks & Gardens
Price group: R1 to R100 per person (see other things to do in this price group)
Available in the following region(s): Frontier Country

Address: From Somerset Street, turn up the road between the Natural History and Cultural History sections of the Albany Museum; the main gates to the gardens are on the left, soon after you pass the Eden Grove section of Rhodes University in Grahamstown.
Telephone: +27 (0)46 603-8240
Opening hours: Please enquire.

Double-collared Sunbird

Head off to the Makana Botanical gardens on a week-day morning when few people are around. You can enter after passing through the Rhodes University's Eden Grove. You can hope to see Cape weavers, greater double-collared sunbirds, red-winged starlings, yellow-fronted canaries, bronze mannikins, rock kestrels, grey sunbirds, olive woodpeckers and southern black flycatchers, as well as the African harrier hawk, lesser honeyguide and Klaas's cuckoo.

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