Destinations

2025

• Morocco
• Extremadura
• Crete
• Menorca (April)
• Lesvos
• South of Salamanca
• Picos de Europa
• Algarve & Alentejo
• The Gambia

2026

• Extremadura

Welcome to Honeyguide

Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays, now in our 35th year of natural history holidays.

This website is the main reference for Honeyguide's holidays. We used to have a printed brochure, but dropped it in 2021 & 2022, when the coronavirus pandemic made travel impossible for some time, then prone to change. Using the website, emails and so on works well and this continues.

Overseas travel

For our overseas holidays for 2025/26 you can follow this website's main menu (the list on the left). Or go via the links in the table of holidays for 2025, below.

2025

Morocco, March	Extremadura, March (full)
Crete, April	Menorca, April
Lesvos, April	Spanish Pyrenees April-May (full)
South of Salamanca, May	Picos de Europa, June (full)
Algarve and Alentejo Oct-Nov	The Gambia, December

2026: Extremadura, March (full) South Africa Jan/Feb (in prep)

This list is also on our calendar page. We keep a waiting list for fully booked holidays, in case of cancellations.

Bishop's ophrys, Crete ; Hermann's tortoise, Menorca.

UK breaks/holidays

Honeyguide ran UK breaks when overseas travel was not possible, though none currently, now that overseas travel has resumed. UK breaks previously run are listed in the website's archive section and may return if there is interest. Future plans for all these are undecided: expressions of interest are very welcome and help us to know what to set up. We also run local walks in Norfolk (see news and Honeyguide blog). Please contact us if you'd like to go on the circulation list for these.

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We are pleased to help with group holidays – a holiday for a group of friends overseas or along the lines of our UK breaks could work well. Or you can book Chris Durdin or Rob Lucking as a guide in Norfolk; the Honeyguide blog gives ideas of the kind of places we could visit.

Some holidays run in the past are in our archive section, and many of these could return to the programme in a future year. There's plenty to browse in our nature notes and blog, too.

The Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust remains active, with each holiday including a conservation donation of £40, which goes through the Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust. This idea, still surprisingly rarely copied, remains a simple and effective way of helping to protect the wildlife we enjoy. Donations to conservation projects linked to our holidays and other activities in 2023 total £4,515, made up of £3,956 that went overseas and £559 in the UK. Our running total for donations since 1991 is £155,517 to October 2024. Through the Honeyguide Charity, the taxman tops up our contributions.

Overseas holidays give the typical flights we use, but where practical we can arrange flights from airports near to where you live, or help with other arrangements. Carbon offsets are part of each holiday’s price. Prefer not to fly? We're happy to make that possible, more on our ATOL page.

Our booking page has booking forms and there is also help here on travel insurance, plus how to book parking and hotels at airports.

I hope you’ll want to find out more by exploring this website further.

Chris Durdin

Advice from FCO:

What does the ATOL logo mean? Read more here >

Below are links to friends and partners overseas, namely Geoff Crane in South Africa and Pau Lucio in Spain. We have run many holidays with both Geoff and Pau and they also run their own holidays.

Southern Africa with Honeyguide

Your South Africa helps you to put together a wildlife holiday with dates and an itinerary that suits you. Click here for more.

Spain with Pau Lucio

 

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Email and e-newsletters - see contact us.

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