Manitoba Adventure Tours and Polar Bear Tundra Adventures

Explore Manitoba on a tundra adventure with Natural Habitat Adventures and come face-to-face with polar bears and other Arctic wildlife!

To really understand a foreign language, it is said, it is best to go where natives speak it and immerse yourself in the local culture. On a Manitoba tundra tour, then, it should be possible to become fluent in “polar bear.”

Every fall, the small, grain port town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, hosts the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears. They gather here to wait for the freezing of the Hudson Bay. But a warming climate is affecting Arctic and sub-Arctic ecosystems, threatening the bears’ future. So there’s no better time than now to plan a Manitoba adventure to see these kings of the North.

There are a variety of ways to experience your polar bear trip. Choose to venture out on the tundra in special rovers by day and stay at a comfortable inn at night, or sleep on the tundra itself in the Great White Bear Tundra Lodge. Dream in Arctic environs, see what polar bears do just before dark, and witness their behavior at first light.

Polar bear might not be the only language you pick up on your Manitoba travels. Visit Churchill in the summer, and watch as the Hudson Bay welcomes thousands of beluga whales back for a season of feasting on capelin and Lake Cisco fish. Kayak among these “sea canaries” and hear their songs by hydrophone.

This same land that hosts the brief, brilliant summer of beluga whales and the autumn of polar bears delivers an amazing winter phenomenon. The ethereal northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, brighten the night skies in a mystical show of colors. Located under the Van Allen radiation belts, Churchill has one of the heaviest concentrations of aurora borealis activity in the world. While the famous neon lights have been researched and analyzed for decades, it is the noise they make that is less understood. Folktales have long held that the aurora borealis also produces odd sounds, but the claims were hard to prove. Recently, however, researchers in Finland recorded crackling and swishing and have found a possible statistical correlation between such noises and this natural light display.

Adventure travelers know it’s possible to learn a lot about a foreign language in its home ground. In Churchill, Manitoba, you can commune with polar bear, hear beluga words, and listen to the night skies. But even with all these local “dialects,” you’ll find that it’s the journey itself that speaks volumes.

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