Welcome to Heatherlea

- your natural holiday choice!

Summer 2023

We organise birding and wildlife holidays around the world! This MiniBrochure updates all our tours for 2023 and 2024, we hope you find inspiration for your next holiday.

WHY CHOOSE HEATHERLEA? - MEET THE TEAM!

Established in 1991, and protected by our own ATOL Licence (6113), Heatherlea offers the confidence you need when deciding who to choose. We hold specialist Tour Operator Insurance, and Mountview Hotel in Nethy Bridge is wholly owned by the company, added security which might not be available everywhere you look. Our attitude and dedication have established Heatherlea as one of Britain’s leading wildlife holiday providers, and as we enjoy our 33rd season we always strive to be better, giving our clients the best we can. Heatherlea has been an Employee-owned Trust since July 2021, an important development which provides security and confidence to our staff, clients and partners around the world.

When delivering a wildlife watching holiday, we know that services including accommodation, food and travel are just as important as activities in the field. In this specialist field, there are very few travel companies who own and deliver hotel services on a daily basis, and even fewer hotel-owning companies who understand the complex delivery of wildlife holidays. Heatherlea does both!

Our Operations Team are ready and eager, wherever you want to go. We have the knowledge and experience to deliver everything you need, and offer a personal service with all the support you need and appreciate. Whether you wish to just have a chat, confirm personal requirements, arrange dietary needs, airport parking, onward flights using our ATOL protection, or anything else, please feel free to call or email. Emma, Fleur, Jolene, Dawn and Sarah are here to help!

Your holiday also includes the services of a Heatherlea Guide, a very valuable asset. Guides work hard with patience and skill, wherever you are, to make sure that your investment of time and money is rewarded. Guides take care to make sure you are comfortable and you won’t feel out of place if you have less experience than others. Whether you are viewing Crested Tit and Capercaillie within a few miles of our Hotel in the Scottish Highlands, watching Tiger from a jeep in a remote Indian reserve, or finding spring migrant birds in Lesvos or Extremadura, we work hard to give you the ‘real’ experience and treat you as a valued individual, not as part of a crowd. We are firmly focused on finding wildlife for you to see, though only in a sensitive and sustainable way, and plan very carefully in advance to give you the best chances, in comfort and safety.

In this Brochure you can see all tours until late 2024, and you can place a provisional reservation without obligation for any tour more than 12 months ahead. Please also see our website, regular E- Newsletters and printed Brochures for full details and updates!

Heatherlea offer a wealth of choice, with many added features to give you the very best value. Thanks to friends old and new who have joined us in the past, we hope to earn your support again. Here’s to great wildlife watching!

Photos: Jolene Allan, Suchit Basnet, John Bentham, Birding Korea, Aidan Branch, James Champion, Mike Coleman, Enrique Couve, Peter Cosgrove, Peter Csonka, Wilson Diaz, Knut Eisermann, Barry Embling, Finnature, Ian Ford, George Gay, Dimiter Georgiev, Simeon Gigov, Gerard Gorman, Toby Green, Andy Jones, Rob Jordan, Tang Jun, Phil Knott, Letaka Safaris, Bob Lewis, Leon Marais, Emma McBride, Neil McIntyre, Chrys Mellor, Brahim Mezane, Adrian Mills, John Muddeman, Scott O’Hara, Holly Page, Jari Peltomaki, Dave Pullan, Chris Rodger, Kevin Shaw, Peter Stronach, Rodrigo Tapia, Andres Trujillo, Machiel Valkenburg, Mladen Vasilev, Washington Wachira, Mark Warren, David Whitaker.