Naturetrek Traveller Reviews

This was a week-long small group holiday on Gran Canaria, 15 people with two excellent guides. We looked at flora and fauna in a variety of habitats across the island and learned about its volcanic history that determined the landscape and climate. Our local guide was also very knowledgable about the original indigenous population and local customs. We were based in a good hotel and travelled out each day to different locations.

Naturetrek offers a variety of wildlife holidays and we have previously been with them to Assam, Namibia and France. All have been very well organised with excellent guides.

Excellent Guide who took us to several different sites, explaining all the birds to us and the environment in which they live together with their song/call. So easy to travel around and everything was very close to the chosen Hotel. Enjoyed the walks very much. The highlight was seeing a female Boar with her young and several Hawfinches amongst the trees.

The staff to whom we have spoken are all polite, efficient, knowledgeable and friendly and always want to help.

We had 14 days to best explore the wildlife of South and East Australia. Naturetrek organised a tour involving the Blue Mountains near Sydney, the Snowy River area, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island. The logistics were tricky but all worked perfectly. The guides varied from good to superb with excellent sightings of wildlife including platypus on both mainland an Tasmania. We saw 120 species of bird in the Snowy River area and all the endemic birds of Tasmania along with Spotted-tailed Quoll and many other Marsupials. It was an expensive trip but having private guides made it excellent and worth the cost.

Excellent recommendations for the tour and excellent organisation.

A small group with two experienced guides for one week on three Canary islands: Fuerteventura, Tenerife and La Gomera,

Naturetrek specialises in expert-escorted wildlife and natural history tours, founded in 1986. We have been on several tours with them and have always found them professional and well-run.

We spent a week at Sukau Rainforest Lodge on the Kinabatangan river. This was our fifth visit which was organised for us by Naturetrek on each occasion. We enjoyed twice daily boat excursions on the river with our guide and had excellent views of the wildlife despite the huge amount of rain we had during our time there.

Naturetrek is a company you can trust to sort out any problems that arise during the holiday. For instance we were in Sukau when Covid-19 was spreading throughout the world and this affected our ability to keep to our schedule. However, Naturetrek rearranged our return and we arrived back home the day before lockdown.

Wildlife holiday in kabini Park spotting tigers, leopard etc. With potential of seeing a black panther

Naturetrek offering wildlife focused tours

We went on the Chile Puma and Penguins Tour in February. It was fabulous! I'm a photography enthusiast so was mainly interested in and hoping to get those pictures. We were SO lucky. A female puma meandered through the brush/grasses hunting. She found a hare and fed on it for quite sometime. We were able to photograph all of this for an hour or so....,just amazing. Accomodations throughout were great and food was excellent. Our guide, Gonzalos(not sure about the spelling) was always very helpful.

Gonzalo had a great sense of humor. He was extremely helpful to the gals that had, what I would consider, very complicted yet great camera. I was impressed with how he helped them.....also finding birds and some of them were very interested in the birds. He was also good at making sure people understand his directions..Patience was required and showed that.

The trip down the coast of Baja California visits many important whale habitats. We interacted with grey whales at the San Ignacio lagoon, watched multiple humpbacks breaching, tail slapping and spy hopping at the Gordo Bank, experienced many blue whales lunge feeding, not to mention super pods of dolphins, inquisitive sea lions and rare Guadalupe fur seals. Birders we’re not disappointed, for example we saw two species of albatross while eating breakfast!

Our trip was postponed twice due to covid, each time this was dealt with efficiently by Naturetrek. They answered all queries by email and telephone promptly. When a complex trip like this runs smoothly, it’s easy to forget that there is a large team of people working in the background making it happen.

We saw wild boar and many unusual birds thanks to an excellent leader.

NatureTrek are well organised and have always given us very enjoyable holidays.

Birdwatching and botany on Fuerteventura La Gomera and Tenerife. Brilliant guides, good hotels. Full days from dawn to dusk some days.

Absolutely reliable in my experience over many years. Guides who are passionate about their subjects and eager to share their knowledge