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Polar bear tours

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Polar bears are awesome creatures - graceful, powerful, fierce yet vulnerable. Canada is the place to see them. From your base in Churchill, the only town in the world where the bears can be viewed in the wild, you can take helicopter flights and expeditions across the frozen tundra. You might even witness the Northern Lights – two of the world's greatest sights in one trip.

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Recommended tour operator: World Bear Safaris

The world’s largest land predator has long been admired in films and documentaries. And you can learn more about these formidable creatures, and observe them in their natural habitat, on a range of exciting tours to Canada and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard – the best places to see polar bears.

We operate tours to Churchill Manitoba on the shores of Hudson Bay in Canada, the southern-most point at which polar bears can be seen in the wild. At this wild frontier post you are all but guaranteed a sighting.

If you want a more wild experience, you should head to Svalbard for an Arctic polar bear cruise aboard a small expedition boat.

Our polar bear tours to Canada run in October and November, which is the best time to see polar bears in Churchill. However, you can see the bears in Svalbard between June and July.

In Canada you can also take a dramatic aerial tour and a Tundra Buggy adventure. For Churchill accommodation we recommend the Tundra Lodge.

It is the opportunity to see polar bears in the most natural setting possible, combined with a comfortable wilderness lodge and an unobstructed view of the Northern Lights in the night sky, that makes this tour unique.

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