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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 South of Salamanca, May
Picos de Europa, June (full) Algarve and Alentejo Oct-Nov
The Gambia, December  

2026: Extremadura, March (full)

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

Ophrys episcopalis Hermann's tortoise (Ivan Nethercoat)

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.


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:travel aware logo

What does the ATOL logo mean? Read more here >

Fatbirder's Top 500 Birding Websites

Pack peace of mind

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. Burchell's zebras lilac-breasted roller

Spain with Pau Lucio

Birdwatching Spain | Wildlife tours in Spain

 

(+44) (0)1603 300552

Email and e-newsletters - see contact us.

NEWS

For our news pages click here, or start with headlines and news in brief below.

An extra holiday: Algarve and Alentejo Oct-Nov 2025.

Recent blogs on the Honeyguide blogspot: South of Salamanca and Honeyguide holidays without flights (Nov 2024).

Photos from Kruger NP, October, and highlights from Spanish Pyrenees in October, see news page.

Blackening waxcap
Blackening waxcap, Spanish Pyrenees (Ceri Pearce).

New Schengen entry requirements being planned; ss your passport valid for travel, and your GHIC up to date? See news.

Highlights from Falsterbo, September, such as this black woodpecker, see news.

black woodpecker(Christopher Hall)

News and photos from the Picos de Europa and Bulgarias's Western Rhodopes, June-July, on our news page.

Alpine accentor (Pau Lucio)
Alpine accentor, Picos de Europa (Pau Lucio).

Honeyguide's ATOL certificate for 2024-25 is on our ATOL page.

Package holiday refunds and cancellations

Advice from the UK Government here.

Review Honeyguide

We appreciate online reviews for Honeyguide. Google reviews can be done via this this link.

There’s a reviews tab on Honeyguide’s Facebook.

Honeyguiders' photo albums

Cameradiary 2 is for Honeyguiders to contribute photos, comment and keep in touch. Older photo collections are still online via the website's archive section.


Thorpe St Andrew Marshes. Wildlife sightings and news from Norfolk Wildlife Trust's nature reserve.

Honeyguide blog: including reports from guided walks.

Updated December 2024


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Atol protected

The air holidays shown are ATOL Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 3253. ATOL Protection extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the United Kingdom. Click on the ATOL logo if you want to know more.

Helping you enjoy wildlife – Helping you protect wildlife