Destinations

2023

• North Norfolk
• Menorca (Oct)
• Algarve & Alentejo
• The Gambia

2024

• Extremadura
• Valencia
• Crete
• Lesvos
• South of Salamanca, Spain's Wild West
• Danube Delta
• Picos de Europa
• Bulgaria's Western Rhodopes
• Falsterbo
• Spanish Pyrenees, autumn

Welcome to Honeyguide

Welcome to Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays, starting our 34th season 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 initially impossible, then prone to change. Using the website, emails and so on worked well then and since, and this continues for 2023/24.

Overseas travel

Overseas holidays are listed on this website's main menu (the list on the left). You can check availability in the listing on our calendar page, or by asking. We also keep a waiting list for fully booked holidays, in case of cancellations. Without the constraints of an annual brochure, the holidays become a rolling programme, and we will add additional holidays from time to time.

Ophrys lucentina, Valencia; Starred agama, Lesvos (Rob Lucking); white pelicans, Danube Delta (Daniel Petrescu).

UK breaks/holidays

Honeyguide's programme also has some UK activities, which started when overseas travel was not possible, though a little less 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.

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 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 strong, with conservations donations sent during the last two years after a quieter time through the years affected by Covid. This mostly 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 2023 totals £4,515, made up of £3,956 that went overseas and £559 in the UK. Our running total for donations since 1991 is £149,797 to the end of 2023 (a donation for our November holiday in Portugal was sent early). 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, 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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