Nocturnal & Spotlighting Tours

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Borneo’s Rare Mammals Tour August 24, 2024
£880 – £5091

Sichuan Mammals Tour May 3, 2024
£880 – £4135

All our nocturnal & spotlighting wildlife watching holidays, nocturnal wildlife tours and safaris all over the world are listed below:

A large proportion of the world’s wildlife (particularly) mammals are nocturnal and as most wildlife watching activities occur during the day, there are so many species which never get seen. Many of our clients ask to see animals that they find in their field guide book but never seem to see when on safari, because they are nocturnal. So Royle Safaris has made it a point of ours to include as much nighttime wildlife watching as possible throughout our range of safari holidays.

Sometimes night safaris and spotlighting is just not possible, the conditions may be too dangerous to walk around on foot at night or it may be illegal to enter national parks after dark in some places. But wherever it is possible we will head out after dinner or sometimes pre-dawn with high powered spotlights and sometimes thermal imaging scopes to look for nocturnal wildlife.

Sometimes spotlighting will be a small part of a trip, such as the occasional hour walk after dinner on a trip, but on some trips it is the main focus of the entire safari. There are some locations such as Borneo, Sichuan and Sumatra where the majority of the key species to find and see are nocturnal and on these trips we often try to become completely nocturnal ourselves. Some of these trips will include 7-8 hours of spotlighting after dinner and therefore not much is done during the day as well. But by spending that amount of time at night looking for wildlife you become part of a world of wildlife which is rarely seen by people.

Animals such as Clouded Leopards, Slow Lorises, Frogmouths, Tasmanian Devils, Tarsiers and owls are only active at night and so only by also being active at night do we stand a chance of seeing them. When out on a Night Safari or when Spotlighting for Wildlife we use high powered white light torches and spotlights and where available thermal imaging scopes and night vision goggles. All of this specialist equipment gives us the edge when it comes to seeing animals that usually live in the darkness.

So if you have always wanted to see an Aardvark or watch owls when they hunt or maybe you wanted to be one of the few people to see a Giant Pangolin or Fennec Fox then we have the Nocturnal Wildlife Watching Holiday for you.

All these tours are available on other dates (subject to availability) than the dates listed. Please contact us to arrange a tour on a date which suits you.