A guide can steer you to a spot for safe observation. If you fit this description, you've got the wildlife-watching bug, and nothing but days filled with birds and beasts will cure what ails you. If so, you're in luck, because the range of guided wildlife-watching trips is as varied as the animal kingdom itself. But there are plenty of less exotic wildlife experiences that can be no less thrilling. Going with a guide will put you where the wild lives are.
Guides know which ridgetops afford the best views of mountain caribou in the Canadian Rockies.
They know how the migrating warblers respond to changes in local weather patterns. And, if you pick your guides carefully, they'll have a treasure trove of natural history knowledge that you'd never be able to glean from a guidebook. Wildlife Tours Whales, tropical birds, bison herds, Galapagos sea turtles . GORPtravel gets you to the world of adventure in nature. Edward Nickens is a freelance journalist who specializes in natural history, conservation issues, cultural travel and outdoor sports.