Bear Essentials with William Gray
Award-winning travel writer and photographer, William Gray heads to Canada's Churchill to catch a glimpse of the mighty polar bear....
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Bear Watching
From Canada and Alaska to Finland and Spitsbergen, our bear watching holidays are bristling with adventure. From the mighty brown bear to the mystical spirit bear, our carefully selected bear watching trips will not disappoint.
Explore the Arctic tundra on a Polar Rover to get eye-to-eye with the world’s largest land predator. Immerse yourself in British Columbia’s pristine bear country while staying at a wilderness lodge. Join an Arctic expedition voyage in search of polar bears and other wildlife. Or spend a night in a hide deep in the magical forests of Finland watching for brown bears.
Popular Bear Watching Holidays
The Bear Necessities
Canada & Alaska: Wilderness Lodges
Our collection of bear watching lodges in Canada and Alaska focus on getting guests close to high concentrations of bears. Here in the heart of the wilderness against a backdrop of striking landscapes you can immerse yourself in the bears natural habitat and observe from a safe vantage point.
Polar Rovers in Churchill
Purpose built for watching polar bears on the tundra around Canada’s Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Polar Rovers combine comfort and space with practicality to ensure the best possible encounters with these magnificent mammals. Giant tyres and a raised open-air viewing platform allows you to come within inches of this powerful predator safely.
Taiga in Finland
Deep in the taiga forest of Finland, on the shores of Lake Lammasjarvi is the ideal base for observing brown bears from special hides. Rarely seen during the day, an overnight stay in a hide is the perfect opportunity to keep vigil for the elusive brown bear under the extended daylight hours of Finland’s summer.
Expedition Cruises
Whether exploring the wildlife-rich waters of the Svalbard archipelago, the islands of the Canadian Arctic or sailing the islands of Haida Gwaii in Canada our wildlife cruise holidays tend to offer a more diverse natural world experience covering a larger area. Bears share the limelight with whales, seals as well as other marine and birdlife.
