Terry Goble

This highlight-packed 11-day itinerary reveals Japan’s most unique and renowned wildlife spectacles - large flocks of Steller’s sea eagles, dancing Japanese cranes, Blakiston’s fish owl, and the bizarre sight of Japanese macaques bathing in steaming hot springs – creating a photographic extravaganza.

• Destination: Japan
• Duration inc. flights: 11 days
• Price inc. flights: From £6,295 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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This small group tour through the province of Sichuan provides opportunities to see some of China’s unique and rare wildlife. Sichuan is one of the few places on Earth where there are reliable chances to see red pandas, Pallas’s cat, Tibetan fox, golden snub nosed monkey and many other fascinating mammals.

• Destination: China
• Duration inc. flights: 16 days
• Price inc. flights: From £5,795 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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On this unique and innovative tour, based in charming traditional ger camps, we explore the arid Altai mountains of Mongolia’s far west for snow leopard. Next, from a second base outside Hustai we search rolling steppes for the bizarre, elusive Pallas’s cat, steppe polecat, argali and much more.

• Destination: Mongolia
• Duration inc. flights: 13 days
• Price inc. flights: From £6,995 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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Among Indonesia’s countless wild highlights, birds-of-paradise and tropical reef fish stand out. This remarkable tour features an 8-night cruise between remote forested islands, and pristine coral reefs where we seek out several of the most spectacular birds-of-paradise from a traditional sailing yacht.

• Destination: Indonesia
• Duration inc. flights: 14 days
• Price inc. flights: From £11,795 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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Situated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the islands of the Azores are the finest location in Europe for whale and dolphin watching. During the spring months an astonishing 28 species of cetacean can be encountered here including some of the largest on Earth, such as fin, sei and blue whale.

• Destination: Azores, Portugal
• Duration inc. flights: 8 days
• Price inc. flights: From £2,795 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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The beautiful county of Sussex supports a bewildering array of butterflies, many unique to the region. In the company of an expert naturalist guide visit some of the county's premier wildlife sites for butterflies, birds, fabulous plant life and a variety of reptiles and mammals.

• Destination: United Kingdom
• Duration exc. flights: 3 days
• Price exc. flights: From £450 pp
• Trip type: Group tour
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