| Costs are 75 euros a day/per person. This includes
- Itinerary varies in function of weather and success. This longer trip will give an idea. http://www.iberianature.com/material/Spain_wolf/Sierra_de_la_Culebra_trip2.htm ,
- The day is structured around morning and eveining wolf watches. The rest of the day is spent wolf tracking, visiting examples of traditional architecture, bird sites, hiking...
- A talk is given at the start of the trip.
- Wolf watch every morning and evening (weather permitting - which it usually does) 2. Tracking and walking - learning different tracks. 3. Are your lot into birds? Car trip nearby to Vilafafila is highly recommended. Biggest European populations of great bustard. Suberb cereal landcsape. Wetlands. 4 Trip into Portugal. The border area must be the least populated part of Western Europe (or Europe?). Some of the villages are like taking a step back in time. 5 Visits to sites with traditional architercture built to protect against/kill wolves. 6 Hiking around the sierra
- Nice double room in a lovely rural hotel
- Breakfast and dinner at same place. Picnic for lunch (12 euros suplement if we all decide to each in a typical restuarant instead).
Details
The trips involve daily morning and dusk watches, tracking, hikes, bird-watching.
Provisional itinerary
1
- Pick up from airport
- Arrive at the rural hotel in the Sierra de la Culebra around 5:00 pm .
- Talk and slideshow on wolves.
- Dinner at hotel.
- Nightime walk.
2
- Morning wolf watch
- Hike with tracking
- Lunch at hotel
- Evening wolf watch
- Dinner at hotel
3
4
- Morning wolf watch
- Walk with shepherd and flock.
- Traditional lunch with shepherd
- Hike along drover's road. Tracking
- Evening wolf watch
5
- Morning wolf watch
- Vilafafila and bustards
- Dehesa
- Nighttime walk
6
- Morning wolf watch
- Excursion to Portugal
7
- Morning wolf watch
- Tracking
- Madrid
Wolfers watching two roe deer stags rutting. October 2005
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