Destinations

UK breaks

• Lizard, Cornwall
• Norfolk break
• North Norfolk
• Wild Essex
• Lincolnshire Wash
• Mull

Overseas, 2022/23

• Morocco
• Extremadura (Mar)
• Crete
• Corsica
• Picos de Europa
• Iceland
• Falsterbo
• Menorca (Oct)
• The Gambia

Welcome to Honeyguide

Coronavirus and various travel updates: see news.

Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays. Our 32nd season of natural history holidays is running in more changing circumstances than the first 30 years.

There is no Honeyguide brochure for 2022, as for 2021, again related to the coronavirus pandemic, initially the difficulties of international travel, now changing rules and opportunities. Therefore, this website becomes the main reference for Honeyguide's holidays.

Overseas travel

The removal of the need to get a Covid test or do a Passenger Locator Form on your return to the UK simplifies overseas travel, so our wildlife holiday packages are increasingly easy for fully vaccinated travellers. There are notes about getting the NHS Covid pass, and about insurance and the EHIC/GHIC on our news page.

We are taking bookings for several overseas holidays, listed on this website's main menu (the list on the left). Plans and the current situation for each holiday are varied: if in doubt, please get in touch.

These are holidays currently planned for 2022/23, mostly rolled forward from 2021. They are also listed on our calendar page. We may add more holidays later, if these prove popular, and travel is reasonably straightforward.

Linaria triornithophora - '3 birds' toadflax, Picos de Europa, June 2022; migrating honey buzzard, Falsterbo, September 2022; Moussier's redstart (Igor Maiorano), Morocco, March 2023.

UK breaks/holidays

Honeyguide's programme also has an added focus on UK activities. North Norfolk has recently run; the Lincolnshire Wash is a new additional to the programme, as is our Mull holiday, 12 – 19 July 2022, though the latter is fully booked.

Open for bookings:
Lincolnshire Wash 6 – 10 June 2022, with Rob Lucking.

Some of the six UK breaks listed in this website's main navigation are for autumn 2021 (e.g. Norfolk break and the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall); Future plans for 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.

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

If you would like an old Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays brochure, please contact us.

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, too.

The Honeyguide Wildlife Charitable Trust remains strong, though inevitably there are far fewer donations to conservation projects in 2020 and 2021 than usual. This works through a conservation contribution with each holiday 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 2021 totalled £2,745. This is much less than annual pre-pandemic donations, for obvious reasons, though still a substantial sum (more here) and our running total for donations since 1991 is £139,407, to December 2021. 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.

Rules about selling travel insurance mean if you want Honeyguide’s insurance you need to go straight to our broker rather than buying a policy directly from Honeyguide. Details are on our booking page and there is also help here on 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

(+44) (0)1603 300552

Email and e-newsletters - see contact us.

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