Wildlife · a Vonda Wanderlist
You're the visitor here.
3,204 places for wildlife travel, gathered from every corner of the map.
The residents did not agree to the itinerary. Show up quietly, keep your distance, and the north will run its show — puffins, whales, and icebergs with seals attached.
Every place in this collection belongs to its animals first. The trick is timing: nesting season, feeding season, the months the ice lets boats through. Get it right and you are furniture; that is the highest compliment available.
via Wikimedia CommonsFirst stop
Mykines, the puffin island
The ferry runs when the sea says it can, which is the price of admission to a cliff-top city of seabirds. Puffins crash-land around your ankles like they've never done it before; gannets patrol the lighthouse point.
✦ May–August · $$ · Mykines, Faroe Islands
“Ten thousand puffins make a strong argument for unreliable ferries.”
Chapter I
Whale water
Bays where the feeding grounds sit conveniently close to the harbour. Humpbacks, minkes and — on good days — blues, all supervised by very smug local captains.
Chapter II
The ice belt
Greenland's iceberg boulevards and the arctic towns beside them, where sled dogs outnumber cars and the wildlife includes the landscape itself, calving.
Every place in this Wanderlist
7 places, no itinerary.
Mykines
Mykines, Faroe Islands
✦ May–August · $$
Húsavík
Northeastern Region, Iceland
✦ May–September · $$
Westman Islands
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ May–August · $$
Grótta
Capital Region, Iceland
✦ September–March (aurora), May–August (birdlife) · $
Ilulissat
Avannaata, Greenland
✦ June–August · $$$
Disko Island
Qeqertalik, Greenland
✦ June–August · $$$
Kangerlussuaq
Qeqqata, Greenland
✦ June–August (wildlife), September–March (aurora) · $$$