Bargain Mammal Watching Holidays

This is a selection of long-haul, expert-escorted Naturetrek wildlife holidays, primarily focusing on mammals, that offer outstanding value for money, being amongst the most competitively priced group mammal holidays on the worldwide market. Indeed, they offer prices to many remote and exciting wildlife destinations in Africa, Asia and both North and South America that cannot be matched, even by independent travel or backpacking. Yet they offer the same standard of accommodation (within the context of the area to be visited) as is offered on other commercial wildlife and mammal-watching holidays. The accommodation we use in Zambia for example is simply ‘top class’. So why do these wildlife holidays offer such value for money? It is simply that we use a local English-speaking naturalist as our guide, saving on the cost of flying out, at considerable expense, one or more British tour leaders. Thus, these tours are best suited to mammal enthusiasts keen to enjoy their wildlife in the company of a local guide; they will not suit those who require intensive British-style leadership and guidance.

 

Additionally, these tours have been specifically designed to suit keen wildlife and animal enthusiasts, both beginners and experts, who are seeking value for money and a group of similarly enthusiastic people with whom to travel. They are action-packed tours and, being led only by one local naturalist, whilst they do not provide quite the same guide-to-client ratio as on a tour with several guides, they are perfectly suited to those mammal enthusiasts who do not wish to pay a high premium to be guided by another English naturalist, and who instead enjoy a measure of independent discovery and research as part of their passion for wildlife! Further, because these groups are generally made up of keen and enthusiastic naturalists, they are wildlife-focused, generally dawn-to-dusk tours, that provide little or no time for rest, relaxation and outside interests. For these reasons, Naturetrek’s Bargain Selection tours often achieve enviable mammal sightings. By contrast, tours offering a more broad-minded and relaxed approach, and a focus on birds, botany, butterflies and other natural history as well as birding,  are to be found in the main body of the Naturetrek brochure, and elsewhere on this website.

 

Naturetrek’s Bargain Mammal Selection includes tours focusing on the endemic mammals in such countries as Ethiopia and Southern India, on ‘big game’ in Kenya, Namibia and South Africa, ‘big game’ and Leopards in Zambia, on Tigers in India, Asian Elephants in Sri Lanka, One-horned Rhinos in Nepal, whales and dolphins in Australia, and Giant River Otters in Peru, as well as tours to a wide range of other wildlife holiday destinations.

Belize - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day wildlife holiday based in the heart of the Mayan mountains, enjoying the region's diverse mammals and birds.

 

Botswana - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day mammal watching holiday to the spectacular inland Delta of the Okavango, focusing on the the Moremi Game Reserve.

 

Ecuador - Amazonian Mammals

A 10-day tour based at the Napo Wildlife Centre in Amazonian Ecuador searching for the region's exciting wildlife.

 

Ethiopia - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day tour of Ethiopia, visiting Awash National Park, Wondo Guenet, the Bale Mountains and Debre Libanos Gorge.

 

India - Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve

A 9-day tour in search of the Tigers and other mammals that inhabit India's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.

 

India - Southern India's Endemic Mammals

A 13-day tour visiting a range of habitats in the Western Ghats and Nilgiri Hills and also visiting Periyar Tiger Reserve.

 

India's Birds, Taj & Tigers - IAR

A 10-day holiday to India in conjunction with International Animal Rescue visiting the IAR bear sanctuary near Agra.

 

Kenya - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day holiday, staying in a luxury camp in the Masai Mara and at Lake Naivasha.

 

Malawi - Birds & Mammals

A 10-day birding tour to Lake Malawi, the Zomba Plateau and Liwonde National Park.

 

Nepal - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day mammal-viewing tour to Chitwan National Park, Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve and the hills of the Kathmandu Valley.

 

Panama - Mammals of the Canopy Tower

 

Peru's Rainforest Mammals

A tour to Peru staying at the Amazon Rainforest Conservation Centre, from where we will look for the area's unique mammals.

 

South Africa - A Mammal Tour

A 10-day tour to eastern South Africa, including six nights in the world famous Kruger National Park.

 

Sri Lanka - A Mammal Tour

An 11-day celebration of Sri Lanka's Asian Elephants with visits to several premier reserves.

 

Zambia - A Mammal Tour

A 9-day mammal-viewing holiday based at a luxury lodge on the edge of the wonderful South Luangwa National Park.