Naturetrek Traveller Reviews

A 2 week holiday mixing visits to temples, archaeological sites, wildlie watching and variuos stops of cultural interset. We started by visiting and climbing Sigirya rock fortress then visited Polannaruwa. We then visited the Dambulla cave complex and the temple of the tooth and the botanical gardens in Kandy. This was follwed by a visit to the tea growing area in Nuwara Eliya, visiting a tea factory and spending a day wildlife watching ion the Horton Plains. Our dfinal stops were in Yala national park and whale watching from Galle. THe local guides were fantastic and showed and taught us many thins about life in Sri Lanka. There were many other stops on the way whic hadded to a the overall, wonderful holiday.

We have travelled with Naturetrek 8 times so far. They are incredibly professional and the level of care and attention before and during any holiday is exemplary. The guides are unfailingly polite, patient, incredibly knowledgeable about wildlife and also their own country which really makes the holiday. The level of attention to detail and the care spent on the travellers welfare is second to none.

We travelled with Naturetrek to Ranthampore Tiger Reserve, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary and the Chambal River Reserve. We could not have hoped for better wildlife sightings: two tigers within touching distance; three leopards equally close; over 200 bird species and crocodiles and gharials too. The excitement of seeing three leopards together was heightened when we witnessed the larger male mating the female - a very rare sight indeed (never before witnessed by our very experienced local guide). In addition our accommodation, food and travel arrangements were all great too! A holiday to rememeber for a very long time.

Naturetrek are extremely efficient and conscientious - we have travelled with them before and will do so again. As well as excellent staff at home in the UK,they employ outstanding local people too. A company to be reccommended and trusted.

We organised a 10 day private and tailored wildlife watching trip with Naturetrek, visiting Lake Nakuru and the Masai Mara. We had a superb guide Davis who not only had a wonderful knack for finding wildlife but always enabled us to be in th best place to wqatch and photograph them. He always put the best interests of the animal first which is o important in a fragile ecosystem such as the Masai Mara. Excellent accommodation and unique wildlife watching experiences, including seeing 17 individual cheetahs in 5 days made this a brilliant trip.

Naturetrek were extremely efficient and responsive throughout the whole booking and organisation process. They helped all parts of the holiday to go extremely smoothly.

Five days spotting lynxes successfully along with other amazing wildlife. Unfortunately most in group were struck down with a bug which developed into pneumonia for my mum. The two guides were amazing, sadly Byron ended up stepping down as I'll but Sergio ensured those that could continued to have a wonderful experience. He looked after the dock and made sure full itinary was followed for those well enough. All very professional, friendly and caring.

Tour operator naturetrex provide excellent service from booking to actual holiday

Our nature trex spotting lynx holiday was certainly an experience. we had two wonderful guides, Byron and Sergio, who kept the moral of the group high despite an awful bug sweeping through the group. they looked after those who were ill but managed to keep the daily itinary running ensuring we got to see all the wildlife we had hoped to. Very professional, friendly and helpful

Naturetrex provide and excellent, professional service from booking to the holiday itself

An interesting experience especially when it stopped raining, no wonder it is so green there. Our guides, Elmer and Olbin were excellent and adapted our itinerary to suit the weather. There is a good variety of birds as well other forms of wildlife. Our accommodation at the Lodge at Pico Bonito was good and the food and service were also good.

Booking was easy and communication via e-mail and post was efficient.

We enjoyed a 10 day bird watching trip based around Pico Bonito National Park in the rain forested heartlands of Honduras. Knowledgeable and friendly local guides took us on daily excursions exploring this little- known region, leading us on early morning walks and amazing boat trips that brought us stunning views of over 190 different types of birds, frogs, monkeys and snakes. The food was delicious and our luxury rainforest cabins couldn't be bettered for nature watching on the doorstep day and night.

Passionate about quality, thoroughly researched and using expert local guides to provide the perfect wildlife watching holidays, Naturetrek are the ideal operator for anyone with an interest in exploring the natural world any where in the world. We've used the company many times and each time has been a great experience.

In Baja California and the sea of Cortez we saw a huge variety of whales and other cetaceans and had the chance to stroke/pet grey whales and their calves in the San Ignacio Lagoon which was delightful and very moving, the chance to swim with a whale shark - beautiful and very exciting. Not just cetaceans but elephant seals, sea lions, turtles, rays, sea birds, a great variety of fish and on the desert walks, there were lots of birds and interesting cacti and other plants. It was an amazing experience and we still find it hard to believe all we saw!

The staff on the boat chartered by Naturetrek couldn't have been more friendly and helpful and the captain's skill in navigating our boat so close to the sea creatures we were watching made our experience very rewarding and enjoyable. The Naturetrek naturalist with us on the boat was endlessly patient with our questions, extremely knowledgeable, friendly and great fun. The same was true of the naturalist employed by the owners of the boat so we had 2 experts at the disposal of only 25 passengers.

Being on a boat, traveling around the Baja Peninsula looking at whales close up and personal is a tour that would be hard to beat. I've been many places and have had many grand experiences and there are many places left in the world to explore. That said, I may just have to fit this trip in again.

Everything ran incredibly smoothly.

A six night stay in two different places in Aragon, Spain does not seem a long enough time to see well over 50,000 birds but that what we were promised and that is exactly what we got. First stop was a small town with fortress walls surrounded by canyon walls towering over it on three sides. Arriving at Alquezar with a huge 'orangy' moon right over it was magical. Those steep cliffs are home to wintering birds escaping the harshness of life in the Pyrenees in winter. Among them is a little gem called a Wallcreeper, which is small and mainly grey and a curved beak. Not easy to find you might think till it moves and sometimes flys and shows its specatacular vermillion coloured wing feathers. You can see them close up here but only from great distances in their summer haunts. Flying above are vultures in their hundreds and on the second day we go to a feeding station, where a devoted conservationist feeds them 100kgs of meat from a local supermarket twice a week.You trek up to the area of bare rock where there are over 400 Griffon Vultures waiting.You sit within twenty yards of them and they fly in just over your head. A bird the size of a turkey and all performing for your camera. Above flies a Golden Eagle over your head and two Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture that feeds off the bones left by the Griffons. Some of the biggest birds of prey in the world and just so close you don't need binoculars. But when watching some of these in flying around another spectacular gorge you hear first the calls and then see lines of even bigger birds flying high on their way to crossing over the Pyrenees as they migrate to breed in northern Europe. These are Cranes and create such an awesome sight.We saw so many that we feared that none would be left at the place they congregate in tens of thousands before flying off and that's where we were going for the second part of the holiday.But we need not have worried as 50,000 still remained when we arrived at the lake south of Zaragoza.Resting as they do at night here must be the greatest avian spectacle in Europe. Nothing could take anything away from this not even a blizzard for a day but then we were 1000mtrs above sea level. 'Awesome' is a commonly used word these days but nobody seeing what we saw could not say it would be the most appropriate description.

This is the first time I have been with Naturetrek after going with two other similar operators. I found it efficient and it delivered exactly what it said it would. Absolutely crucial to the success were the two tour leaders who were exceptional. Not only top quality ornithological experience but in the case of our Spanish leader excellent local knowledge mean we were in safe and capable hands throughout the week.