Johannesburg provides a base from which one can easily access a variety of habitats holding an impressive suite of endemics and near endemics. Sites visited include: 

• Afromontane Forests on the eastern escarpment which hold near endemics such as Knysna Turaco, Chorister Robin and Bush Blackcap. 

• High altitude mountains of Lesotho which offer Drakensburg Rockjumper, African Rock Pipit, Mountain Pipit. Layard's Warbler and Grey Tit 

• Highveld grassland with it's array of larks, cisticolas, bustards and francolins.