Wildlife
Seeing animals in the place they live.
Wildlife watching is mostly about patience and timing.
In season: Year-round · Peak: Oct
31 adventures
Wildlife watchingTanzania
A week in the northern Serengeti timed to the migration, watching a million wildebeest decide to cross.
Wildlife watchingNorway
Sea-eagle safaris into the narrow Trollfjord and boat trips to the offshore whale grounds.
Wildlife watchingUganda
An hour with a habituated gorilla family, at the end of days of steep forest walking.
Wildlife watching4 routesPoland
The most reliable place in Europe to see free-ranging bison.
Wildlife watchingNorway
Polar bears from an expedition ship at 78°N — the high-Arctic wildlife voyage.
Wildlife watching4 routesPoland
The largest natural marsh in Central Europe, walked at dawn in chest waders while elk stand in the mist.
Wildlife watchingChile
One of the only places left where you can realistically track wild pumas.
Wildlife watchingRomania
A UNESCO biosphere reserve holding the continent's biggest pelican colonies and over 300 bird species.
Wildlife watchingPoland
The best realistic odds of seeing wild wolves in Central Europe.
Wildlife watching4 routesSpain
Cantabrian brown bear from the valley viewpoints, at dawn and dusk.
Wildlife watching4 routesSpain
Europe's great raptor cliff, vultures and eagles over the Tagus.
Wildlife watching3 routesSpain
Europe's great wetland — half a million wintering birds, and Iberian lynx.
Wildlife watching3 routesSpain
The best place in Western Europe to watch wild Iberian wolves.
Wildlife watchingSpain
Whales, dolphins and orca where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean.
Wildlife watching3 routesSpain
The best place on earth to see a wild Iberian lynx.
Wildlife watching3 routesSpain
Tens of thousands of cranes lifting off a high lagoon at dawn.
Wildlife watchingSpain
Resident pilot whales and dolphins in the strait off south Tenerife, year-round.
Wildlife watching3 routesSpain
A vast freshwater lagoon and rice paddies south of Valencia, alive with waterbirds.
Wildlife watching3 routesPoland
Medieval carp ponds that have become one of the richest bird habitats in Europe, with around 280 species recorded.
Wildlife watching3 routesPoland
A vast floodplain at the mouth of the Warta where tens of thousands of geese gather each autumn.
Wildlife watchingPoland
One of the largest bat hibernation sites in Europe, inside the tunnels of the old German fortifications.
Wildlife watchingPoland
European bison in the Pszczyna forests, where one of the oldest lowland bison lines was saved.
Wildlife watchingPoland
A shallow lake near Mikołajki with one of the largest mute swan colonies in Europe, a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Wildlife watching3 routesPoland
A remote border forest of red deer, wolves and elk, with abandoned railway viaducts above the Błędzianka.