If you thought you needed to endure a long haul schlep and all the costly, khaki capers to gawp at wildlife in the wild? Think again. From the lonely, weather-beaten glens of the Highlands to freckled, unpopulated islands dotted off the coast of Northumberland, the varied, off-grid landscapes of our fair isles are brimming with all creatures great and small.
Lockdown unearthed a few of these domestic safaris, long overshadowed by African and South American epics, whose itineraries take groups or private parties through the most evocative, spine-tingling landscapes not often associated with Blighty.
