See flamingos in the Camargue

“Our first encounter with the flamingos actually looked nothing like the first picture. It looked more like the pictures above. There were lots and lots of them but we could barely see them as they were behind protective fences and quite a distance away. The flamingos were really sensitive and if you inch one step closer to the fence, they will sense it and shy away. So we could only admire them from afar. A pair of binoculars would have been useful!”

“We watched the birds really closely and they were not bothered by us at all and were just doing their own things. Eating, quarreling, marching, sleeping, flapping their wings away and flaming into the sky.”

“We visited the Camargue wetlands, on the French Cote d'Azur along the Mediterranean, in mid-April. We were very lucky with the weather. Sunny and cool. It was an odd feeling to watch flocks of flamingos in France.”