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Siberian Tiger Expedition

Vladivostok · Sikhote-Alin National Park
Duration
10 Days · 9 Nights
The route
Vladivostok · Sikhote-Alin National Park
Style
Tracking the Amur tiger in the taiga
Best season
November – March · best
The route

9 nights, 2 stops — tracking the amur tiger in the taiga.

Vladivostok → Sikhote-Alin National Park.

Vladivostok
What you're tracking

What you'll see

Slaty-backed gull
On the harbour.
Steller's sea eagle
Along the coast in winter.
Amur tiger
In the taiga.
Amur leopard
In the southern forest.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Arrive Vladivostok

Arrive Vladivostok

The journey begins.

Arrive in Vladivostok, met and transferred to your accommodation. Vladivostok is the staging city for expeditions into the Russian Far East's tiger taiga.

02Vladivostok

Vladivostok

A full day in the field.

A harbour-city day in transit to tiger country.

03Vladivostok → Sikhote-Alin National Park

To Sikhote-Alin National Park

On to the next.

Transfer to Sikhote-Alin National Park. Tracker-led searches for Amur tiger sign in the snow. Taiga wildlife and tiger tracking in the winter forest.

04Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

Taiga wildlife and tiger tracking in the winter forest. A full day in the Amur tiger wilderness. Fewer than 600 Amur tigers remain on earth, almost all in the Sikhote-Alin taiga — the rarest of tiger encounters.

05Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

A full day in the Amur tiger wilderness. Following tigers and taiga wildlife through the snow.

06Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

Following tigers and taiga wildlife through the snow.

07Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

Tracker-led searches for Amur tiger sign in the snow.

08Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

Taiga wildlife and tiger tracking in the winter forest.

09Sikhote-Alin National Park

Sikhote-Alin National Park

A full day in the field.

A full day in the Amur tiger wilderness.

10Depart Sikhote-Alin National Park

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Sikhote-Alin National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

November – March

Peak season

The cold staging season for Amur-tiger expeditions.

Year-round

Good season

A year-round gateway city.

Destinations

Where this journey goes

Wildlife you may see
Birds Leopard Tiger

Make it yours.

Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.

Field notes, now and then.

Where to go · When to go · Wildlife in season

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