Newfoundland Adventure |
Newfoundland Adventure
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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8 Days from $2,600* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) Experience the world's largest gathering of humpback whales and a fabulous diversity of marine wildlife. Small groups and giant landscapes are featured. These departures are all guaranteed to go. While we can never promise whales, these dates include the prime whale watching season (100 per cent viewing success 1994-2008). Most years we see the largest numbers and varieties of whales between late June and early August. The seabirds are thinning out by late July but everybody should see murres, puffins,… more |
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Southern Labrador Adventure |
Southern Labrador Adventure
Gros Morne Place, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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10 Days from $4,790* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) Join Wildland Tours naturalist and noted photographer Mark Tsang on a photographic and historic expedition through northern Newfoundland and southern Labrador. Commemorate the polar centennial with four nights at Battle Harbour, Labrador. Contribute to our efforts at studying and cataloguing the region’s humpbacks, orcas, and other whales. Travel through time viewing fossils, remnants of the earliest life on earth, and some of the new world’s earliest archaeological sites. The area is incredibly rich with wildlife but is one of North… more |
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Whale Study Week |
Whale Study Week
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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7 Days from $2,950* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) Our Whale Study Week is a great opportunity to participate in actual whale research. Or whale lovers can simply enjoy being in the company of these majestic animals as they travel and sometimes play in their northern feeding grounds.For groups with a special interest in marine mammal biology, we provide special evening presentations on marine mammal entrapment research, whale biology, dolphin intelligence, whale distribution, and general marine ecology. Wildland Tours president Dave Snow has taught marine mammal biology in Canada… more |
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May Magic |
May Magic
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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5 Days from $1,600* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) A holiday where you choose the dates and leave the rest to us. May can be magic in eastern Newfoundland. The ocean is alive as millions of seabirds feed along the coast enjoying the bounty of the subarctic springtime. Nests are built, burrows are dug, and the coastline is abuzz with soaring gannets, colourful puffins and the first whales of the year. Most years we also enjoy giant Greenland icebergs likely calved from the same glacier as the iceberg that… more |
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Newfoundland Family Wildlife Adventure |
Newfoundland Family Wildlife Adventure
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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7 Days from $2,500* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) Welcome to our Newfoundland Family Wildlife Adventure. Join Angela and Jennifer plus their dad for a week of family fun and adventure on the eastern edge of North America. Our new family vacation program is designed to engage, enrich, and entertain all generations.During the days you will join other travelling families and watch whales, measure giant squid, study puffins, walk through lighthouses, watch salmon jump in wild rivers, and visit science centres.During the evening we can enjoy the hotel's swimming… more |
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May Magic On The Great Northern Peninsula |
May Magic On The Great Northern Peninsula
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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5 Days from $1,900* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) For 2011 we are offering this exploratory excursion at the request of Newfoundland naturalist and photographer Mark Tsang. This is Mark’s favorite time of the year. To the north there are icebergs drifting by. Birds of prey are establishing new territories and reclaiming old ones. There is usually snow in the mountains and the ptarmigan are somewhere between winter and breeding colours. Moose and caribou are walking the lowlands in great numbers. Their calves are harder to find as the… more |
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Viking Trail Experience |
Viking Trail Experience
Gros Morne Place, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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8 Days from $2,700* per person
Provider: Wildland Tours (3 testimonials) Journey through time with us to learn about the birth of a continent and the death of an ocean. Walk in the footsteps of the New World’s first peoples and explore the home of the first Viking explorers. This exciting holiday starts and ends in Deer Lake, Newfoundland and explores the nature and geology of Gros Morne National Park — a United Nations (UNESCO) World Heritage Site. L’Anse aux Meadows, North America’s only known Norse settlement and Red Bay, the… more |
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