Posts for October, 2007

 
A number of our 2008 departures are already fully booked and even some 2009 departures are close to being full!. Where possible we will try and organise extra departures to satisy demand. For 2008 we are pleased to announce the following additional departures:
 
Spitsbergen – Realm of the Polar Bear!
Our two [...]

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By Naturetrek tour leader Maureen Ponting
 
Break up the cold British winter this January with a warm summer holiday to South Africa’s beautiful Drakensberg Mountains. Our trip explores the botany and natural history of the Drakensberg - a spectacular montane escarpment that runs up the Natal/Lesotho border before joining the Malotti Mountains in [...]

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I first visited Sri Lanka on a three month back-packing holiday in the 1970’s and returned home besotted with the charms of this remarkable country. If paradise existed on earth this was surely it; a lush tropical island where luscious fruits and vegetables grew in abundance,superb wetlands teemed with birdlife, over a score of endemic [...]

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The first two Naturetrek Just Jaguars tours took place during June 2007. Although many previous Naturetrek groups had visited the Pantanal region of Brazil these were the first tours designed specifically to try and find Jaguars in this fascinating region of marshes and riverine forests. Although regarded as one of the major [...]

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Many of you will be familiar with the popular reality television series, The Dragons’ Den, that places would-be entrepreneurs before a panel of wealthy businessmen prepared to back them financially or tear them apart. In recent months, a similar series entitled E-Den, operated by Bowshot and backed by Businesslink Wessex, [...]

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Naturetrek Slide Evenings
During the New Year we will again be holding Naturetrek Slide Evenings around the UK. This year our speakers will include Paul Stanbury (on our selection of exclusive wildlife cruises, including Spitsbergen, Kamchatka, Antarctica, Baja California and Galapagos), Peter Dunn (on Europe, Monterey Bay and Trinidad and Tobago), Andy Tucker [...]

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