Wildlife Holidays

We’ve broken out the binoculars to search and seek out several new wildlife trips, to help keep us – and you – ahead of the game. In our new itineraries we’ve included some off-the-beaten track National Parks and developed some new routes, to allow you the best chance of seeing certain species.

Our best selling wildlife holidays highlight the sheer range of adventures on offer when you travel with Exodus. We offer safaris, wildlife photography holidays, bear and bird watching holidays, Polar wildlife holidays, and there are opportunities to see big cats and primates too.

In the Swahili language, the word safari means 'journey'. Whether that's through the wildlife-rich plains and grasslands of Kenya's Masai Mara, the vast ecosystem of the Okavango Delta by dug-out canoe, or zipping over Namibia’s sand dunes by quad bike, Exodus will take you to the heart of the action for a journey to remember.

Travel photography is a passion at Exodus, and on most of our adventure holidays there are fantastic opportunities to get behind the lens of your camera and take those iconic holiday shots. We have award-winning photographers in the office who can give advice before your trip, and run a number of dedicated photography holidays.

Found on every continent except Antarctica, bears have always held a mystical allure. Observe Polar bears bathed in 24-hour daylight, hunting on ice around the Spitsbergen archipelago, the immense Grizzly bear fishing for salmon in North America, or the European Brown bear roaming in the verdant pine forest of the Finnish wilderness. Join Exodus on a bear watching holiday and find your perfect wildlife encounter.

Take a voyage to the ends of the earth, on an awe-inspiring journey to the Polar regions of the Arctic or Antarctic. Here you’ll find an icy wilderness made up of the some of the most beautiful and wild scenery you could imagine, icebergs the size of housing estates, and a range of fascinating wildlife, including Polar bears, walruses, penguins, seals and whales. 

“There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than with any other animal I know,” said David Attenborough after his legendary encounter with a family of mountain gorillas during the filming of his iconic show, Life on Earth. Indeed, primates, be they gorillas, orang-utans or chimpanzees have a special place in the wildlife litany as they share so many of our traits.

Imagine the splash of a blue whale’s tale, so close to your boat you can feel the spray. Or a humpback explosively exhaling next to a gigantic cobalt-blue iceberg. These vast animals, the size of five double decker buses or more, are kings of the underwater food chain, yet seven out of 13 great whale species are endangered.

Who said birdwatching was boring? From the vast eco-system of the Okavango Delta, that attracts hundreds of bird species to its sparkling waterways, to the heart of the Amazon rainforest where Macaws add brilliant flashes of red, blue and gold to the green curtain of foliage, there is something fascinating about watching these tiny creatures go about their lives…

Nothing raises the pulse quite like seeing a big cat stalking through the grass. For size nothing beats the elusive male Bengal tiger. They are solitary animals and their camouflage makes them extremely hard to spot. But in the open they appear flame-coloured orange. And there’s the Africa’s symbolic lions, South America’s nimble ocelots, and rare snow leopards in the ancient Himalaya.