These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring holidays, tours and travel to the Falkland Islands.
Most operators focus on the Falkland Islands' recent military history or wildlife, or both. The islands are home to a wide variety of rare and dramatic wildlife for which visitors usually head to a number of specific locations:
* Volunteer Point, just outside Stanley for king penguins.
* Sea Lion Island for elephant seals, Antarctic skua and striated caracara.
* Pebble Island Chiloe wigeon, grebe, black-necked swan, rockhopper, gentoo, Magellanic penguin and southern sea lion.
* Carcass Island, 1 hr flight from Stanley, for Magellanic & gentoo penguins, elephant seals and black-browed albatross.
| Audley Travel |
01993 838 600 |
Tailormade travel to the Falklands with itinerary suggestions including visits to Darwin & Goose Green; the penguins, albatross and other wildlife of Saunders Island; and the wildlife of Carcass Island. |
| Cox & Kings |
020 7873 5000 |
Seven day private tour visiting Stanley, Pebble Island, Sea Lion Island, and Volunteer Point. |
| Discover the World |
01737 214 250 |
Discover have a regional cruise that takes in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia as well as the Antarctic Peninsula, and a tailormade option visiting Stanley and the islands' wildlife in locations such as Carcass Island, Pebble Island & Sea Lion island. |
| Holts Tours |
01293 865 000 |
Specialist battlefield tour operator. They take guided groups to battlefields all over the world and visit the Falklands on fixed tour dates usually once a season (14-24 Nov in 2010). |
| Journey Latin America |
020 8747 8315 |
Tailormade travel to the Falklands via Chile and it is included as a destination in some Antartica itineraries. |
| Last Frontiers |
01296 653000 |
Antarctic cruises stopping by the Falklands. |
| Leger Holidays |
0845 408 07 69 |
The Falklands are a guided battlefield tour destination for Leger. (No tour in 2010) |
| Peregrine Adventures |
0844 736 0170 |
Several of their Antarctic adventure cruises visit the Falklands and South Georgia. |
| Steppes Travel |
01285 880 980 |
Cruises and tailormade tours to the Falklands. |
| W&O Travel |
0845 277 3366 |
Upmarket tour operators with a selection of three tours to the Falklands: an 8-day 'highlights' tour, a wildlife discovery tour and a 14-day Chile & Falklands combo tour. |
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