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Please take a look at the latest tour reports, itineraries and galleries that have been added to our website since our last E-newsletter.
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Join us in late April for a new 7-day tour which focuses on spring bird migration from a single, very comfortable base.
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If you haven't planned your 2012 holiday yet, please do join us at our Cheriton Mill offices at one of our open days. This is an excellent chance to meet Naturetrek's expert staff and to discuss your wildlife travel plans for the year ahead.
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Tour leaders Andy Harding and Alan Outen describe the pleasures of a spring birding and botanising holiday in North Cyprus.
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Tadoba is proving the most rewarding of Indian national parks for its wealth of mammal sightings and we've been sent some interesting photos from our favoured lodge there, including images and footage of Ratel (Honey Badgers), a species rarely seen on the Indian subcontinent.
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Ethiopia is breathtakingly beautiful, and home to a wonderful variety of habitats and wildlife. Take a look at this new collection of images taken on our October 2011 'The Best of Ethiopia' holiday.
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If you would like to see some short video clips of some of the nocturnal mammals in our grounds at Koshi Camp in Nepal, taken by a client on a recent Naturetrek tour to Koshi Camp, please read on!
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Wolves, Fishing Cat, African Wild Ass and Ashy Minivets are among the top recent sightings and news from Naturetrek holidays to Ethiopia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Spain, France and Sri Lanka.
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Our new cruise to West Greenland is filling up fast. This pioneering cruise offers a superb chance to see the rare Bowhead Whale, as well as spectacular scenery and other Arctic wildlife.
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Enjoy £100 OFF our 'Satpura National Park & Agra' extension when you book our 'India – Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve' Bargain Mammal tour. This offer applies only to those tours departing before the end of May 2012.
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Barn Owls are again using one of the barns at our Cheriton Mill offices and we've been filming them … take a look at our footage.
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For the first time in several years all of our walking and plant-hunting trips to Bhutan, Kazakhstan and China (both in Sichuan and Yunnan) will be operating. Indeed our Sichuan tour has just 2 places left, so please book soon to avoid disappointment!
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Naturetrek's Paul Dukes describes a trip blessed with perfect weather and packed with a mouthwatering array of southern Atlantic wildlife including penguins, goslings, birds of the 'Diddle-dee' moorlands, elephant seals, dolphins, Orcas, albatrosses and ubiquitously friendly islanders.
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There's still time to book our new 'Birdwatching & Wildlife Festival' in Nepal which departs February 2012.
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We're pleased to be offering two new botanical holidays for 2012: the limestone flora of Upper Teesdale, and the flowers which grow in the special maritime microclimate of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.
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This year we wanted to let you know what time the office is open during the Christmas break.
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If you would like to leave the country during the 2012 London Olympics, we’re operating several tours between 27th July and 12th August 2012. They’re starting to fill up, so we’d urge you to book soon to avoid disappointment!
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We still have space on our 1-week Galapagos Islands charter in March (19th – 31st March, London/London). This cruise, on the yacht 'Cachalote', features visits to Espanola, Floreana, Plazas and Genovesa.
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Enter our prize draw for a chance to win 2 free nights (including airport transfers) in an Indian hotel. Anyone booking a tour to India between 15th December 2011 and 31st January 2012 can enter. For further details reads on …
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We love receiving the photos you send us from your Naturetrek holidays and two of our recent Madagascar tour participants sent us hundreds of superb photos of Aye-aye, Fosa and other Madagascan wildlife. Enjoy!
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Due to popular demand we are pleased to be able to offer additional departures on some of our fastest-selling tours, including two of our holidays to Madagascar and ‘Tiger Direct!’.
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Naturetrek’s expert staff and tour leaders are often available to give illustrated talks to RSPB groups, other bird groups and wildlife societies. Should you ever require speakers for your group meetings, please do contact us.
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Naturetrek’s annual January Slide Shows offer a chance to sit back, let us do the work, and take you to the top wildlife destinations you’ve always dreamed of going, so please do join us to discuss all your holiday options for 2012 and beyond.
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Please do join us on Friday 6th January for our first Open Day of 2012 at the Naturetrek offices in Cheriton, Hampshire, to discuss your holiday plans for 2012 and beyond.
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If a relaxing tailormade holiday in India appeals, based in luxury lodges at affordable prices, then operations manager Rajan Jolly has created two new itineraries for you to consider.
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Very few people have ever seen a wild Clouded Leopard. In October 2011 a Naturetrek group was lucky enough to spend an hour and a half with this near-mythical big cat deep within the Danum Valley rainforest in north-east Sabah.
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If you would like the chance to win £200 off our tour to Guyana, plus an excellent book about the country’s wildlife, please complete our Guyana quiz and email us your answers by Thursday 22nd December …
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A week into our 'Peru - Macaws & Machu Picchu' (trekking) tour in September our group came across a Giant Anteater while travelling down the Tambopata River from Tambopata Research Centre.
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South Africa is not only beautiful, it boasts a superb world-renowned flora and makes a perfect destination for escaping the worst of the European winter. The next departure of this 14-day holiday is Tuesday 10th January, and tour leader Maureen Ponting describes the trip's highlights.
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This extraordinary Lesser Mole Rat was among the many highlights on our 'Hungary's Bats, Mammals & other Wildlife' holiday in September. Our group saw a total of 19 bat species, including swarms, roosts and colonies, plus a host of other mammals and birds.
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If, like us, you've been enjoying the BBC's 'Frozen Planet' series, and are wondering how you can go and see some of the amazing wildlife shown, take a look at the exciting range of tours we're offering to the Arctic and Antarctic in 2012
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If you're looking for that special last-minute Christmas present then look no further - Naturetrek Gift Vouchers could not be simpler and make the perfect gift!
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Naturetrek's annual January Slide Shows offer you the chance to sit back and let us take you to many of the world's top wildlife destinations. So, please do join us to discuss all your holiday options for 2012 and beyond.
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We've had some excellent wildlife sightigns around our Cheriton Mill offices recently, so why not join us on one of our forthcoming Open Days when you can combine a discussion of your plans for your next wildlife holiday with a local wildlife walk led by one of our Naturetrek naturalists.
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Please do join us for the last Open Day of 2011 at the Naturetrek offices in Cheriton, Hampshire for mince pies, cakes and hot drinks on Friday 25th November and to discuss your holiday plans for 2012 and beyond.
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Naturetrek's technical and media consultant, Bret Charman, has just returned from our Kenya (Bargain Mammals) tour. As a keen photographer, he was in his element. Click here for his stunning collection of images. He reports...
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We’re predicting a particularly exciting year ahead at our own tented camp in Koshi, Nepal – about 60 Elephants have moved into the area, while rare bird sightings and records for Nepal keep mounting up …
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India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan boast fascinating and ancient cultures. From the incomparable beauty of the Taj Mahal, to a homestay with tribespeople, we offer a chance to watch wildlife and enjoy a superb range of this vast subcontinent’s cultural and archaeological highlights.
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India, Sri Lanka and Nepal offer some of the best hotel and lodge accommodation in the world. If it's luxury that you're after, we have a special selection of tours that use only the finest accommodation throughout.
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If you are thinking of travelling to India in 2012, do join us at one of our annual January Slide Shows. It will be the first time for a number of years that India has featured in our 'annual roadshow', and it will be the first time that our popular tour leader and India aficionado, Nick Acheson, has been able to join our speakers to talk about India's special wildlife.
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Our record-breaking 25th Anniversary tour to Nepal in March 2011 has inspired us to repeat this ‘winning formula’ in 2012 with a special Birdwatching & Wildlife Festival based again at the famous Tiger Tops Tented Camp and led by top Naturetrek and local guides.
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The England cricket team will be playing a Test series against Sri Lanka in March 2012 and our 'Sri Lanka – Wildlife & Cricket' tour is designed especially to offer you a chance to enjoy twin passions of wildlife and cricket in a beautiful tropical setting!
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India, Sri Lanka and Nepal offer dream destinations for bird watchers – tropical species, Himalayan specialities, grassland rarities and much more, all enjoyed amongst some of the world’s most stunning scenery. Here we (try to!) pick our top 5 birding tours for the subcontinent.
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If you want to see a Tiger, look no further – we have 20 years’ experience of operating expert-led Tiger holidays, and a 100% success record on our Tiger-dedicated tours such as ‘India – Tiger Direct!’.
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Naturetrek’s annual January Slide Shows offer a chance to sit back, let us do the work, and take you to the top wildlife destinations you’ve always dreamed of going – and suggest a few more you hadn’t ever thought of. Please do join us to discuss all your holiday options for 2012 and beyond. Entry is free and our programme of talks runs from January 14th to January 21st.
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Talk about good luck! A Cougar swam right in front of our ‘Canada – The West’ tour group’s boat then posed on rocks, allowing them to get some amazing photos.
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Our recent tour in search of South Africa's big cats proved to be extremely fulfilling and provided excellent sightings of African Wild Dog. It seems that these tours are not just for cats!
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So close to plunging Gannets we got showered! Squabbling witch-like cackles from Great Shearwaters... Wilson's and Euro Storm Petrels breathtaking and leaping Striped and Common Dolphins thrilling! Our inaugural 'Autumn Birding in Southern Portugal' was off to a great start ...
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Our recent ‘Madagascar’s Lemurs’ group was incredibly lucky to see not one, but three Fosas, including two that were mating! Tour participant Victoria Hillman captured this rarely seen event and sent us this superb photo and video clip.
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We’re pleased to be able to offer overflow departures on several of our most popular sell-out tours to Brazil, Italy, Iceland and Madagascar ...
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See the Northern Lights in 2012 - experts predict top displays! Enjoy this natural wonder on our new trip to Norway.
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Naturetrek’s Catherine Strong describes the breathtaking appeal of western Greenland, a new destination for 2012, and a new addition to our selection of exclusively chartered cruises.
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As far as we're aware, our new 'Peru - Spectacled Bears & Andean Condors' holiday is the first successful tour specifically designed to see Spectacled Bears in the wild. And bears and condors weren’t the only highlights - a boa at breakfast and ‘interactive’ sea lions were among the host of superb wildlife enjoyed by our group in this South American ‘Garden of Eden’!
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We struck lucky on our September 'Whales & Dolphins of the Azores' tour - not only did our group see lots of Sperm Whales, we managed to capture this underwater video of two whales swimming alongside our RIB ...
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Dolphin watching doesn't get any better than this ... in perfect weather and crystal clear deep blue sea. A group of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, shown in the underwater video clip, and in stunning images taken by clients on the tour, accompanied us for about 40 minutes.
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Naturetrek’s exciting range of small-ship wildlife cruises is proving as popular as ever and we’re offering two exciting new cruises for 2012: ‘Spirit Bears, Grizzlies & Orcas: Cruising the Great Bear Rainforest’ and ‘Greenland: Bowheads & Icefjords of Disko Bay’.
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With our new – 2012 – brochure hot off the press, please join us for its launch – and a day at Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, near Fareham in Hampshire, on Friday 30th September 2011 (FREE entrance ticket provided!).
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Tigers, daily sightings of Sloth Bears, Bengal Florican, Black-naped Oriole (3rd record for Nepal) … our 25th Anniversary tour to Nepal smashed all Naturetrek records, despite the fact that we've previously run over 300 wildlife tours to Nepal now.Record-breaking Nepal Anniversary tour
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Naturetrek tour leader Byron Palacios had always wanted to see Brown Bears in Spain’s remote Cantabrian Mountains, but they had always eluded him … until one unforgettable evening in July!
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In October and November 2010 we were turning people away from some of our Christmas period tours, either because we had reached a maximum group size or because flights were fully booked. Now is the time to book to avoid disappointment.
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All of our dedicated Just Jaguars! Tours have achieved their objective of seeing Jaguars in the wild in 2011, with a record seven seen on one tour! We advise booking early for this holiday in 2012, as bookings have already started coming in.
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There’s good news for Gaur (Indian Bison) in Bandhavgarh National Park - the central government has committed to the re-location of 31 more Gaur from Kanha National Park to Bandhavgarh, in an attempt to further boost numbers of this magnificent species.
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Our new ‘Sri Lanka Wildlife & Cricket’ holiday in March 2012 offers a chance to combine watching the England team’s Test Matches in Sri Lanka with wildlife watching in this beautiful tropical island setting.
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We’re pleased to offer a new tour combining two of the world’s most stunning island destinations – Sri Lanka and the Maldives. After a week-long exploration of Sri Lanka’s key wildlife sites we transfer to the Maldives for a cruise around these idyllic islands.
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Tour leader and Naturetrek staff member Paul Marshall delves into his notebook and relives his highlights from our February 2011 tour to the Maldives.
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We now have two standard cabins available on our 11th July 2011 ‘Spitsbergen – Realm of the Polar Bear’ cruise. Huge colonies of Little Auks, Brünnich’s Guillemots and other seabirds as well as the possibility of seeing Polar Bears are among the many expected highlights.
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There are still places left on our 6th and 15th August departures for this tour which includes a stay aboard a floating hotel on the Danube and a dazzling array of waterbirds and other birdlife, as well as Bears!
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Rare warblers, impressive bull Bison at the forest edge, lekking Great Snipe and a host of other birdlife were amongst the highlights of our recent ‘Poland in Spring’ tour.
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Since the restoration of peaceful times in Nepal, poaching has declined and Tiger numbers are once more increasing. This information is backed up by Naturetrek’s recent trips to the country, with Tigers seen in both Chitwan and Bardia National Parks.
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Take a look at these stunning images of little-known and rare Amazonian mammals caught on camera-trap by naturalists at Napo Wildlife centre, Ecuador, the base for our 10-day Amazonian Mammal tour.
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We’ve recently set up camera traps in both the grounds of Naturetrek’s Koshi Camp in Nepal and at our Naturetrek offices in Hampshire. The comparison makes for interesting viewing, from Asian Elephants to Otters and Mandarin Ducks …
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Remote islands are special places, and the Falkland Islands offer a unique charm to the British traveller – a distant southern refuge for penguins, sea lions and a wealth of wildlife with the familiar feeling of home!
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Yet another ‘first for Nepal’ has been discovered at Koshi by the staff of Naturetrek’s very own Koshi Camp. Badri Chaudhary, our manager and resident naturalist, discovered a White-vented Myna, a starling species whose range normally extends westwards only as far as Assam.
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Very little is known about Jerdon’s Baza in Nepal so we were all very excited when news came through that Naturetrek’s Suchit Basnet saw and photographed a pair mating in March this year.
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Bret Charman, Naturetrek’s most recent recruit (to our IT and Product department), recently spent a month on tour with our groups in India on a 'photography mission' and encountered one of Kaziranga's more elusive inhabitants …
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Our 7th September 'Peru - Macaws & Machu Picchu' holiday features an Inca Trail trek; however, permits are rapidly running out for this date so please contact us as soon as possible to book your trek permit.
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We still have places left on many of our 4-day ‘Finland – Just Brown Bears!’ trips this summer. It looks set to be a particularly rewarding season, as Hawk, Great Grey and Pygmy Owls are all present at the site we visit, and it’s a good year for Bear cubs too!
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Following on from the tremendous success of our 2011 season of ‘Sri Lanka’s Blue Whales & Leopards’ holidays, Naturetrek is offering additional departures in 2012 – and the dates have now been confirmed.
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If the idea of close encounters with some of the world’s most stunning insects appeals to you, why not join expert Dave Smallshire to look for dragonflies at some of their prime European sites.
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It’s not often you get a national travel award and meet a famous Bollywood movie actress all in one evening but Naturetrek’s representatives in India enjoyed just such an accolade, and a brush with the glamorous Bollywood world, this March …
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We are pleased to offer an overflow departure for our popular 8-day ‘Butterflies of the Dolomites’ holiday which will run from Wednesday 6th – Wednesday 13th July 2011. Apollos, ringlets and blues, moth-trapping by night and some out-of-this-world gorgonzola … Dave Nevitt describes last year’s highlights.
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Daniel Green brings us the latest lemming news – and therefore owl predictions – from Swedish Lapland …
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Veteran Naturetrek tour leader David Tattersfield took a rare break from leading holidays, and went on one as a client for a change! … to Baja California. He was hoping to see Blue and Grey Whales as well as a wonderful variety of other marine life on this special Pacific seaboard, and wasn’t disappointed.
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There are still places available on our ‘Belgium in Summer’ overflow departure. Book now to join this 5-day tour departing on Monday 4th July. Led by popular naturalist guide Gerald Broddelez, this holiday now includes an overnight stay in the historic city of Bruges.
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We recently trialled six Himalayan Nature-sponsored camera traps, monitored by a Nepalese student scientist studying Fishing Cats, in the grounds of our own Koshi Camp (at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in Nepal), a place so many of you have visited and enjoyed with us over the years. These are the best images of the rare and endangered Fishing Cat taken so far!
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Tour leader Byron Palacios describes an amazing lunch spent watching the world’s rarest cat, the Iberian Lynx, in Spain’s Sierra Morena on our dedicated Iberian Lynx tour in March …
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Tour leader Malcolm Stott describes the pleasures of watching a superb Northern Lights spectacle as well as hunting Gyr Falcons and other birding highlights of our recent tour to Iceland.
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The first of our themed Open Days – on Australia – was a huge success, and we'd like to invite you to come and see what all the fuss is about on our next Open Day which will be held on Friday May 6th – this time the theme is Africa and South/Central America.
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The Somerset Levels have a great deal to offer in spring, and two species in particular make a May visit here special – Bitterns are making regular feeding flights over reedbeds and there are large congregations of Hobby catching dragonflies on the wing.
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Despite all the political unrest in Tunisia during the weeks leading up to our mid-March tour to the country, the holiday went ahead as planned, and our group had a wonderful time. Co-leader Dave Smith describes it as his favourite ever Tunisian tour …
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Clients on our recent Guyana holiday watched a male Jaguar for a full 25 minutes! The tour produced many other highlights, including over 270 species of birds and Giant Anteaters.
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We are pleased to announce additional departures for some of our most popular 2011 tours, where the original tours have sold out.
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Places are still available on Naturetrek’s 8-day ‘Estonia in Spring’ tour this May, led by Estonian ornithologist Mati Kose, and focusing on the spectacular bird migration and breeding birds in this small Baltic country.
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A total of 115,000 Cranes, the highest ever recorded count at Gallocanta and a significant proportion of the Western European was seen by lucky clients on our February ‘Wallcreepers & Cranes in Northern Spain’ holiday. Tour leader John Willsher describes the tour highlights …
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Tour leader Tom McJannet describes highlights of our February 2011 tour to witness one of the world’s top wildlife spectacles – hundreds of millions of Monarch butterflies overwintering in the forested hills of central Mexico …
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Watching up to 10 Blue Whales each day, in turquoise seas, among dolphins and turtles, with views so close you can see the patterns of barnacles which distinguish individual ‘Blues’ …. whale watching doesn’t get any better than this!
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The Dolomites Mountains of north-eastern Italy are an eastern extension of the Alps. These dramatic limestone mountains offer superb scenery as well as a rich variety of flowers, butterflies and other wildlife. In 2011 we are offering two holidays focusing on the natural history of this impressive range of mountains ...
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Due to a late cancellation, a couple of places have become available on our Baja California wildlife cruise departing Thursday 24th March 2011 in search of Blue Whales, Grey Whales, thousands of dolphins and a host of other exciting marine life.
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Naturetrek tour leader Maureen Ponting describes some of the highlights of our January botanical holiday to South Africa’s spectacular Drakensberg Mountains.
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Encouraging news is reaching us from Finland – that vole densities are building to high levels this winter, and there is cause to hope that 2011 will be a bumper spring for owl sightings. Ural, Hawk and Great Grey Owls have already been recorded around Oulu, Finland!
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If you fancy a last-minute holiday to India to see the England Cricket team in action in Bangalore or Chennai this March, as well as adding on some wildlife watching near either of these cricketing locations, please call us to discuss a tailormade tour.
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We now have dates and prices for our 2011 programme of full-day and evening trips to look for cetaceans and seabirds, including White-beaked Dolphins and Balearic Shearwaters, off Lyme Bay.
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Naturetrek Madagascar tour leader Cathy Harlow reflects on why she loves this unique island so much. And if you’ve been enjoying the BBC’s news series ‘Madagascar’ as much as we have you’ll be familiar with some of the strange and beautiful creatures that inhabit it, and that Cathy describes …
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Our relaxing 9-day holiday to St Lucia in January proved the perfect Caribbean winter getaway, combining natural history and absolute luxury. Tour leader Martyn Kenefick describes the birding and many other pleasures of this beautiful island …
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Our inaugural 5-day 'Sweden – Wolf-tracking in Winter' holiday enjoyed wonderful weather, superb Wolf tracking and a luxurious hotel. Anders Stahl, our tour leader, supplied us with the following daily email reports, and his wonderful images ...
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We are pleased to announce additional departures for some of our most popular 2011 tours, where the original tours have sold out …
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Please do visit us at the AiTO stand at this year’s Destinations travel show in Birmingham on Friday 4th – Sunday 6th March. We’re offering 50 pairs of free tickets (each worth £12) to the event on a first-come-first-served basis.
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In 2006 and 2008 Naturetrek arranged a number of successful tours based on following the England Cricket Team in India. This year we are again arranging travel for supporters who want to follow England’s Indian tour this winter and we’re combining sport with visits to some of India’s important Tiger Reserves.
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There are still some places left on our special 10-day, 25th Anniversary tour to Chitwan National Park, Nepal in February, where we’ll be based at the famous at Tiger Tops Lodge and Tented Camp.
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Due to a cancellation we have 1 male share place left on our Maldives cruise departing Fri 28th Jan 2011 – we’re accepting offers from £1,495. We also have places left on our Brahmaputra cruise and Tiger Direct! Tour – both departing in March.
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After the England cricket team’s successful Ashes tour in Australia, we are looking ahead to March 2012 when the test match venues will be in Sri Lanka. We’re planning to run a new holiday combining the twin pleasures of bird watching and cricket there …
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The January departure of our 15-day bird watching tour to Costa Rica filled up so quickly that we are running an overflow departure which will run from Thursday 31st March – Thursday 14th April.
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Melody Clarkson from Oregon, USA, chose to do our ‘Ecuador’s Andean Flora’ holiday as a tailormade tour. She wrote to us after the trip with her impressions of what proved to be an unforgettable wildlife holiday.
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Our October/November 2010 ‘Madagascar’ tour group was lucky enough to have two separate sightings of one of Madagascar’s most elusive mammals – the fosa.
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We’ll be holding an Australia Open Day on Friday 25th March – an ideal chance to talk to our Australasia experts, Gwen Owen and Maryanne Mills. To read more about the event and about Gwen’s recent visit to Australia click here …
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Watch footage of a Hawk Owl in Svartadalen (location of our ‘Sweden in Winter’ tour). Sweden is a superb winter wildlife destination – we have places left on our ‘Sweden in Winter’ and ‘Wolf-tracking in Winter’ holidays and record snowfalls mean conditions are excellent for tracking!
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Despite the snow-induced travel chaos over the 2010 festive period, clients on our ‘Wolves & Bustards in Rural Spain’ Christmas departure had a wonderful holiday, with some superb views of Wolf and large groups of Great Bustards.
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From ocean to outback, reef to rainforest ... Australia's isolation, following separation from Gondwanaland 55 million years ago, has endowed it with a unique array of landscapes and weird and wonderful wildlife. We would like to invite you to join us at our Cheriton Mill offices for a day, and find out what this magnificent country has to offer!!
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As the UK was edging into the cold days and dark evenings of winter Gwen Owen, Naturetrek’s Australasia operations manager, was very pleased to be heading for the Australian spring ... first stop Tasmania.
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A birding visit to the steppes and plains of Extremadura in the crystal-clear light and relatively mild temperatures of winter has its own very special merit as Peter Dunn, leader of our inaugural winter tour to the area, found out …
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We have 1 place available on our whale and dolphin cruise to the Maldives in January, and 3 places left on our March Brahmaputra cruise.
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Andy Smith, leader of our November/December ‘Ethiopian Wolves’ tour, describes a wonderful encounter with a lone Wolf on the high Sanetti Plateau halfway through the trip …
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As the ice and snow seem set to grip the UK again, we’ve come up with a few warm winter wildlife holiday ideas to tempt you!
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Namibia is a land of exceptional wildlife and stunning scenery. Clients on our November tour were treated to a nocturnal Leopard fight, record numbers of mammals and a host of special birds among other highlights.
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John Cadera, a client on our November ‘Botswana’s Desert & Delta’ holiday, describes encounters with Pel’s Fishing Owl and Hunting Dog, plus other highlights from the tour.
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Endemic birds and plants, dolphins and a warm climate are among the many attractions of a late winter holiday to the Canary islands. Our ‘The Canary Islands’ tour next departs in February 2011 and is led by renowned ornithologist Tony Clarke. Here, Editor Catherine Strong talks with Tony about highlights from our November 2010 tour, and what he's looking forward to about the next tour in February.
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The Indian High Commission has changed the procedure for applying for a visa to India. It is very important that you read on if you have booked, or are thinking of booking, a holiday to India in 2011 …
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Money raised from Naturetrek tours this year run in conjunction with EIA and Butterfly Conservation has topped £13k. Many thanks to all of you who booked these holidays for your support!
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Tour leader Andy Smith's hot streak of luck in Peru continues. He was able to add views of a Spectacled Bear on our October ‘Peru – Macaws & Machu Picchu’ (non-trek) tour to his recent superb Jaguar sighting on the September (trekking) version of the same tour!
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Clients on our August/September ‘Birds & Botany tour’ to South Africa were treated to somewhat closer views than expected of an African Elephant … with photos to prove it!
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Clients on our October ‘Northern Peru’ tour were treated to a very rare sight: A Long-whiskered Owlet – the first time a Naturetrek group has seen one, and a bird that’s rarely ever been seen in the wild.
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Naturetrek’s general manager, Andy Tucker, flew to the Algarve in late September to observe the autumn bird migration … and devise a brand new tour there for 2011.
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Last month we brought you news of the superb views of a large male Jaguar enjoyed by clients on our September 'Peru – Macaws & Machu Picchu' tour. Since then group member Paul Young has very kindly sent us six stunning images of the encounter.
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The signs look promising for an early 2011 invasion in central Sweden … of the exquisite Pine Grosbeak. Join our ‘Sweden in Winter’ tour for some superb northern winter birding.
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Sarah Richards won a free ticket to both days of the 2010 WildPhotos event held on 22nd-23rd October at the Royal Geographical Society, London, when she correctly identified the Satanic Leaf-gecko in our September e-news Photo-ID competition.
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If you need some help in planning your next wildlife holiday, please do visit us at our Cheriton Mill offices for tea, coffee, cakes and expert advice on one of the Naturetrek Open Days …
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One of the best ways to cheer yourself up in the middle of a British winter is planning your wildlife holidays for the coming year! Please do join us to discuss all your holiday options for 2011 and beyond at one of Naturetrek’s January Slide Shows.
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Naturetrek’s Paul Stanbury and Andy Tucker will be at the WWT Slimbridge ‘Winter Wildlife Festival’ on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th December. There’s an exciting line-up of guest speakers at the event, including Stephen Moss and Mike Dilger.
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Naturetrek’s David Mills, MD and devotee of all things Himalayan, reflects … and plans 4 exciting new Naturetrek itineraries to Bhutan for 2011.
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With the rains thankfully having returned to India’s Bharatpur Bird Reserve, after three years of minimal monsoon rainfall, this wonderful reserve should be at its best once again. We offer five tours to Bharatpur, arguably India’s best bird reserve.
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There are still places left on some of our tours which run over the Christmas period. But, it’s essential to book early to ensure your place.
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We had exciting news from our September ‘Peru – Macaws & Machu Picchu’ tour leader about halfway through the holiday … that they’d been lucky enough to have very close views of a Jaguar during their time at Tambopata!
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We always aim for a mix of superb wildlife and an enjoyable, relaxed experience on our holidays … but on our inaugural ‘Learn Spanish in Wild Spain!’ tour the atmosphere of camaraderie and fun instilled by our tour guides helped to make it a particularly memorable holiday.
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Our popular Monterey Bay tours each August always promise exciting maritime encounters but the 2010 tour group was exceptionally fortunate in the variety of cetaceans and seabirds observed during this year’s tour.
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Naturetrek tour participant Mark Bretherton’s photo of a truly spectacular Starling roost from one of our February 2010 Somerset Levels trips is featured in this month’s BBC Wildlife magazine!
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Join us at Titchfield Haven on Friday 8th October. Naturetrek staff will be on hand to give guided walks, presentations and discuss your wildlife holiday wishes for the coming year.
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Following on from the success of our August tour, we had high hopes that our September ‘Whales & Dolphins of the Azores’ holiday would be just as good … and that there might also be some interesting migrant birds thrown into the cetacean mix!
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If you are interested in wildlife photography WildPhotos, the UK’s largest photography symposium, is a must! Naturetrek has teamed up with the WildPhotos event organisers, to offer a free ticket to the event …
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We’d like to invite you to join us on Wednesday 6th October at the AiTO Travel Expo in London. Visit our stand between 6pm and 8.30pm, where Andy Tucker and Paul Stanbury will be on hand to discuss your 2011 wildlife holiday requirements.
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Help us celebrate Naturetrek’s 25th anniversary by joining managing director, David Mills, plus Naturetrek staff and tour leaders for a week’s superb wildlife-watching in the renowned Tiger Tops Lodge and Tented Camp in the heart of Chitwan National Park … at a very special price!
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Next year will be a very good one for those wishing to travel to Nepal, as the country’s many political parties have agreed to put their differences aside in 2011, to ensure an undisrupted year for tourists visiting the country.
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Four exclusive Indian jungle safari lodges are offering great deals for clients booking Naturetrek ‘tailormade’ holidays in India.
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We’re pleased to announce a new link between Naturetrek and the charity ARKive, which is assembling a visual record of the world’s most endangered species. Plus, enjoy some rare Iberian Lynx footage taken by a Naturetrek client on our ‘Realm of the Lynx’ tour …
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We’re pleased to be able to offer a £500 reduction on our 18-day ‘Bhutan’s Bumthang Valley’ tour departing 23rd April 2011.
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A night of bat-watching delighted clients on our inaugural ‘Panama – Mammals of the Canopy Tower’ tour this May. The bat evening added to an already impressive tally of Panamanian rainforest mammals, birds and other wildlife on the holiday.
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There are still a few remaining places on our 2010 ‘Tasmania – The Wilderness Isle’ holiday, and the first Tasmania booking we receive mentioning this article will win a case of award-winning Tasmanian Pinot Noir!
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Clients on our new ‘Whales & Dolphins of the Azores’ tour in August were blessed with stunning weather, great Sperm Whale sightings, a host of dolphins and other sea-life, plus a real rarity – good views of four Sowerby’s Beaked Whales!
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Naturetrek groups visiting the Brazilian Pantanal in July and August 2010 have enjoyed our best ever series of Jaguar sightings along with an abundance of other wildlife encounters.
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Once again, we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible this weekend at the annual British Birdwatching Fair.
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Our April tour to Bandhavgarh had record Tiger sightings … the most prolific sightings, as always, coming from reserves popular with tourists!
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Look out for three exciting new tours to India to be launched this summer for our next winter season in the subcontinent. Here’s a preview …
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