Mammal Watching Holidays | Bulgaria | Bear | Wolf | Carnivores

Balkan Trek's unique bespoke mammal watching holidays in Bulgaria are offered to individuals, couples, small private groups and societies. All mammal watching holidays can be tailor-made to suite your own requirements, and are carefully designed to help you track down some of the most elusive and enchanting mammals in Bulgaria.

Of all mammals, it is carnivores that arouse some of the strongest feelings and provoke some of the most extreme reactions. Revered by some and reviled by others, carnivores have an ambiguous and at times hypocritical position in the hearts and minds of humans, being perhaps the focus of greater persecution yet greater conservation efforts than any other mammals.

For most mammal watching enthusiasts, it is large carnivores such as bear, wolf and lynx that are the key focus of interest. Balkan Trek has now introduced a unique bear watching & conservation holiday in Bulgaria, with several small group departures scheduled during the year. We can also organize tailor-made bear watching and tracking holidays, and combine bear watching and tracking activities with other forms of wildlife observation.

In addition it is now possible to organize unique tailor-made wolf tracking holidays in Bulgaria. These wolf tracking holidays are particularly rewarding during the winter months when the mountains are covered in snow, and the wolves and their ungulate prey can be tracked on foot, often with the aid of snowshoes.

Sadly, for many people, small mammals have traditionally been considered only as pests and vectors of disease, and thus the target of persecution, control and eradication. However, for many mammal watching enthusiasts, small mammals have a special appeal, being both elusive and endearing animals. Bulgaria has an exciting variety of small mammals, making it an excellent destination for those wishing to see a variety of mice, voles, hamsters, dormice, mole rats and squirrels. Balkan Trek can organize unique tailor-made itineraries for a small mammal holiday in Bulgaria.

Bats are some of the most cryptic and mysterious mammals on earth, but thanks to the proliferation of increasingly excellent and affordable bat detectors, bats are becoming ever more accessible mammals to find, observe and record for mammal watching enthusiasts. With at least 33 of the 45 European species of bat having been recorded in Bulgaria, Bulgaria is probably the best country in Europe for a mammal watching holiday focused on bats, and for those mammal watchers who have their own bat detectors, Balkan Trek can organize a unique tailor-made itinerary for a bat detecting holiday in Bulgaria, which will take you to a wide range of bat habitats and allow you to use your bat detectors and recorders to track down and record a wide range of exciting bat species.

To find out more about the opportunities for tailor-made mammal watching holidays in Bulgaria, and to discuss your own specific plans and requirements, please email Balkan Trek. We will be happy to design and organize for you a unique and highly rewarding mammal watching holiday in Bulgaria.

Furthermore, all our mammal watching holidays in the Rodopi (Rhodope) Mountains are organized in co-operation with the local NGO 'Wild Rodopi', ensuring that you not only have the best opportunities to observe and photograph some of the Rodopi (Rhodope) Mountains rarest and most elusive mammals, but will also be directly contributing to the work of the NGO 'Wild Rodopi' and help funding their efforts to research and conserve the mammals of the Rodopi (Rhodope) Mountains.

The NGO 'Wild Rodopi' is currently initiating an important brown bear conservation project in the Rodopi (Rhodope) Mountains, and our bear watching holidays in Bulgaria are being directly organized in conjunction with this project, not only helping to provide important monitoring data, but also demonstrating to the local communities the economic benefits of peaceful co-existence with large carnivores such as brown bears.

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