Royle Safaris

Travel to the country of Gabon in Central Africa and track down some of the world's most enigmatic primates including the colourful mandrill and the huge and endearing lowland gorilla (among other awesome species). Introduction: Gabon is a natural paradise. The ‘jewel in the crown’ of Gabon’s natural parks is Loango National Park, where there’s almost no humans living around the park and where wild animals live protected by the rivers surrounding this natural part of Central Africa. Any traveler here can easily spot big mammals such as the forest elephant, red forest buffalo, red river hogs (with their furry ears), sitatunga, various duiker species, a variety of monkey species, a huge ...Read more >

The Tasmanian devil is as iconic as the little island it inhabits. This tour explores both the island of Tasmania and the mainland coast of Victoria as we go in search of wildlife from Tasmanian devils and humpback whales to platypuses and gang-gang cockatoos. This tour is a wildlife adventure to some of Australia's most beautiful habitats and with so many iconic and bizarre creatures this trip is sure to be enjoyed. Introduction: We are specialists in tailoring wildlife watching all over the world and we have a great range of wildlife tour in Australia. Being a country continent the hardest part is picking what to include and what not to include as it is impossible to see all of this ...Read more >

Travel through some of East Africa's best wildlife watching and safari destinations on this comprehensive three week safari which explores no less than 12 reserves and national parks and aims to showcase the very best of the natural world. Introduction: We are specialists in tailoring wildlife watching all over the world and we have a great range of wildlife tours in Eastern Africa which combine various different wildlife watching activities. In order to develop our unrivalled range of combined wildlife watching vacations, our guides and colleagues around the world have spent years searching out the world’s best wildlife watching locations as well as visiting some seldom visited areas. ...Read more >

Travel to the country of Gabon in Central Africa and track down some of the world's most enigmatic primates including the colourful mandrill and the huge and endearing lowland gorilla (among other awesome species). Introduction: Gabon is a natural paradise. The ‘jewel in the crown’ of Gabon’s natural parks is Loango National Park, where there’s almost no humans living around the park and where wild animals live protected by the rivers surrounding this natural part of Central Africa. Any traveler here can easily spot big mammals such as the forest elephant, red forest buffalo, red river hogs (with their furry ears), sitatunga, various duiker species, a variety of monkey species, a huge ...Read more >

This tailor made tour will take you deep into Sundarbans National Park, the world’s largest mangrove forest, home to the largest continuous population of tigers on the planet. This harsh and almost impenetrable forest features an estimated 500 tigers and due to the inhospitable conditions it has remained untouched by human settlements - an amazing feat when you think India and Bangladesh are two of the world’s most densely populated countries. Whilst here we'll be searching not just for tigers but also other rare and elusive mammals, including: Ganges river dolphins, huge saltwater crocodiles, masked finfoot, chital, langurs, finless porpoises and freshwater turtles. Most of the tiger and ...Read more >

‘Here be dragons…’ as quoted on many antique maps when Europeans were describing the unexplored countries and islands of Asia. But it was not all make-believe and fantasy as this phrase probably stems from the tales heard by pirates, buccaneers and early explorers from local people in relation to the large lizards that inhabited the islands of Eastern Indonesia. We now know these lizards to be Komodo dragons, not fire-breathing but venomous, not winged but social and intelligent and not gigantic but still over 3m long. However the Komodo dragons are not the only giant we will be focusing on during this trip. We will also be visiting some hot spots for the gentle giant of the seas, the ...Read more >

Explore the remote and poorly understood forests of Tawau Hills National Park in search of the some of the world's rarest wildlife including bay cat, Hose's civet and many more species. Introduction: We are specialists in wildlife tours and expedition style wildlife trips for some of the world’s rarest species of mammals. These trips are specialist and focus and we try very hard for all of our targets. This trip requires a good amount of spotlighting after dark, as many of our targeted species are nocturnal. We have worked with local guides and scientists to develop the itinerary and using all known information about the species of mammals including rare mammals in Borneo we have ...Read more >

China is home to some of the world's most incredible and unique wildlife. It is also a place that not everyone associates with wildlife. But there are some pockets of wilderness and some passionate guides willing to showcase some of China's hidden wildlife secrets. Introduction: When people think of China they rarely think of wildlife and if they do think of Chinese animals that inevitably think of giant pandas. This one species is so iconic and so famous around the world that it is hard to imagine them as wild animals that live a life completely removed from people, but in recent years more and more giant pandas are living wild lives away from the disturbance of people. This is testament ...Read more >

Move over the northern Pantanal as we have a new contender for the best place in the world to see Jaguars and other (usually elusive) South American wildlife. The Bolivian wetlands and chaco forests are home to large numbers of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, tapirs, anteaters and many other species. Introduction: We have developed this unique cat specialist trip to Bolivia for anyone wanting to avoid the crowds in Brazil and enjoy spotting jaguars, pumas, ocelots and possible jaguarondis in the wonderful remote Bolivian pantanal. There is a huge range of wildlife found in Bolivia including endemic river dolphins, various armadillos, rare peccaries, endemic primates, as well as very rare and ...Read more >

There aren't many tour operators working within the forests of Rwanda and Uganda which offer quite as extensive an amount of time in the presence of mountain gorillas and chimpanzees as you’ll find in the 11 day tailor made itinerary below. We include not one but two gorilla tracking days; one in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda and one in the famous Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. By visiting these two parks and spending a couple of hours with the gorillas you will be able to compare the differences between habitats, behaviours and populations. Bwindi is more tropical than Volcanoes and the gorillas here seem intermediary as they travel between the eastern lowland ...Read more >

Join snow leopard experts with decades of experience in tracking, researching and conserving snow leopards throughout Ladakh. Tracking down snow leopards in the Himalayas is one of the most exhilarating and amazing experiences in the natural world. The top areas for sightings are the Tarlung, Hysing and Karlung valleys inside the Hemis High Altitude National Park, but we also visit the Ullay Valley which has recently been found to have a local snow leopard population. Up until recently seeing snow leopard in the wild was a rarity. The idea of trying to find one of the shyest, most elusive and well camouflaged cats in the world, mostly active at night and living in a habitat that is quite ...Read more >

The most famous predator in India if not the whole world, is of course the iconic and majestic Tiger. And when it comes to seeing this amazing animal there really is only one place; central India. There are a number of national parks and tiger reserves around India (over 40 in total) and many are in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, it is here where some of the reserves boast such a huge percentage of the world population its hard not to find tigers. This safari is by far the most comprehensive tiger safari around; traveling to three of the best parks in the world for tigers and spending three weeks searching for them we could easily spot over 25 different tigers during our time ...Read more >

Ethiopia is one of the world's hotspots of endemism; meaning that a high percentage of wildlife that is found in the country is only found in this country. This is because of its highland terrain and rugged landscape isolating the animals from other parts of Africa; this tour focuses on the rare and endemic mammals of Ethiopia. So just specialist guides and visit some of the seldom visited and incredible wildlife destinations off the beaten track. Introduction: We are specialists in tailoring wildlife watching all over the world and we have a great range of specific mammal watching trips. These specialist mammal watching tours focus on rare and endemic species of mammals, as well as other ...Read more >

Explore the diverse and wonderful country of Sri Lanka in search of Blue Whales (100% success rate), Asiatic Elephants (100% success rate) and Leopards (at least one seen every time we enter Yala and Wilpattu National Parks on our past safaris). Introduction: Sri Lanka is fast becoming one of the best wildlife watching destinations in Asia. Home to huge populations of leopards, sloth bears and Asiatic elephants as well as a mind boggling array of bird species (many endemic) and some incredible endemic mammal species too. It has also become a top whale watching destination in recent years with a new population of blue whales being discovered here. This tour explores a couple of Sri Lanka’s ...Read more >

Introduction: For a very long time clouded leopards were among the top of every wildlife enthusiasts wish lists (which has not changed), but for a long time the chances of seeing one were lottery like odds. Very few people were ever lucky enough to happen chance across one as they trekked in various forests around South and South East Asia. All of that changed around 5 years ago when a wonderful forestry department opened its up for tourism in Sabah, Malaysia (Deramakot Forest Reserve) and the rate of seeing this wonderful species shot up drastically. But nearly at the same time as this location arrived on the wildlife watching scene the clouded leopard was split into two different species; ...Read more >

Introduction: For a very long time clouded leopards were among the top of every wildlife enthusiasts wish lists (which has not changed), but for a long time the chances of seeing one were lottery like odds. Very few people were ever lucky enough to happen chance across one as they trekked in various forests around South and South East Asia. All of that changed around 5 years ago when a wonderful forestry department opened its up for tourism in Sabah, Malaysia (Deramakot Forest Reserve) and the rate of seeing this wonderful species shot up drastically. But nearly at the same time as this location arrived on the wildlife watching scene the clouded leopard was split into two different species; ...Read more >

Ethiopia is one of the world's hotspots of endemism; meaning that a high percentage of wildlife that is found in the country is only found in this country. This is because of its highland terrain and rugged landscape isolating the animals from other parts of Africa; this tour focuses on the rare and endemic mammals of Ethiopia. So just specialist guides and visit some of the seldom visited and incredible wildlife destinations off the beaten track. Introduction: We are specialists in tailoring wildlife watching all over the world and we have a great range of specific mammal watching trips. These specialist mammal watching tours focus on rare and endemic species of mammals, as well as other ...Read more >

This is a great opportunity to join up with resident naturalists and scientists in South Africa and track down some of the Northern Cape's most elusive species including: aardvarks, aardwolves, bat-eared foxes, pangolins and black-footed cats. We are specialists in tailoring wildlife watching and especially mammal watching safari vacations all over the world. To develop our range of fantastic mammal watching vacations we have spent years searching the world’s best wildlife watching locations as well as visiting some seldom visited areas. As a result we have created some great itineraries with the combined help of our zoologist guides, local experts and scientists studying various rare ...Read more >

Explore the forests of Sabah, Borneo in search of the enigmatic clouded leopards as well as the many other rare species of mammals in Borneo. Introduction: We are specialists in wildlife tours and expedition style wildlife trips for some of the world’s rarest species of mammals including Sunda clouded leopards, Sun bears, Flat-headed cats, Sunda leopard cats and Marbled cats on this particular tour. These trips are specialist and focus and we try very hard for all of our targets. This trip requires a good amount of spotlighting after dark, as many of our targeted species are nocturnal. We have worked with local guides and scientists to develop the itinerary and using all known ...Read more >

Tracking down red pandas in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal is one of the most exhilarating and amazing experiences in the natural world. Up until recently it was an encounter which was deemed nigh on impossible. The idea of trying to find one of the shyest, most elusive and least understood mammals living in a habitat which is not just alien to most people but physically very demanding was just way too difficult. In recent years the region has become more inhabited and the increase in people has, unfortunately, led to the destruction of habitat. This has in turn led to increases in conservation projects as well as creating opportunities for sustainable tourism. Our local guides and ...Read more >