Package Tours and day tours

Tundra Buggy Tours, Ltd. PO Box 662, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada R0B 0E0 June through November: 204/675-2121, fax 204/675-2877; December through May 613/823-4026 or 1-800/544-5049, winter fax 813/894-2582

Visitors stay at the Rolling Tundra Lodge. Tundra Buggy Tours, Ltd. offers a package tour that includes airfare from Winnipeg. This option includes one night in Winnipeg and three nights sleeping at the Mobile Tundra Lodge. According to Tundra Buggy Tours, Ltd, accommodations are similar to a train with private sleeping berths, with two showers and restroom, dining car and lounge car, all attached similar to a train with viewing and photography decks between each one. Smoking is permitted on the open decks only. Food is hearty winter-type fare. Coffee is always brewing and snacks are always available. They take only VISA.

If none of these quite do it, go to the back pages of Outdoor Photographer Magazine or any other outdoor adventure magazine. Plenty of other companies run tours up here during polar bear season.

If you are interested in birdwatching, go in July. The best. perhaps the only local resource, offering birdwatching tours is Churchill Wilderness Encounter: Birding Tours of Churchill, Manitoba. Locally owned and operated, CWE offers exclusive five-day birding tours of the Churchill area. Tour guide Bonnie Chartier has over thirty years experience leading birding tours in Churchill and is the author of the ABA/Lane 'Birder's Guide to Churchill'. At least the first time out, it is helpful to go with a tour like this, because otherwise, you might not learn of the best locations for viewing birds. This is especially important for serious bird photographers. Email the company at cwe@mts.net for details. I honestly don't know if Bonnie offers single-day tours or not. Although I did not take this tour, I wish I had. I never did find the elusive Akludik Marsh, one of the best birding spots. I would have visited there had I but known. Bonnie is spoken of with respect up there among knowledgeable people at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre. She is renowned for her knowledge of the local and migratory bird species found up there. Birding is her passion.

Or return to Polar Bear High Season Intro Page.

updated 1/30/04