Seeing a bison is like going back to prehistory. To true wild nature. To impassable forests, swamps and meadows. To the huge herds of animals that migrated by the thousands through the Białowieża Forest.
To see a bison is to experience a miracle, because it should not exist. The end of wild bison came in 1919, when the last individual was killed in the Białowieża Forest. Then, already for hundreds of years, they no longer existed in England, France, Germany and Romania. Despite this, today there are about 5,300 individuals in the world.
How were these animals saved?
You will find out while tracking bison in the Białowieża Forest!
Date: 27th December and 28th December
Price: 70 euro/pp.
Extra: add a guided tour to the strict reserve – the oldest part of the forest – and receive a 10% discount on it! (dates: 27 or 28.12.2025)
What else awaits you:
Duration of the microtrip:
Safari can take place in two versions:
1. IN MEADOWS
– we move by car between meadows where bison can occur (meadows are several kilometers apart), if bison are in the meadow, we go out and approach them closer.
2. IN THE FOREST
– we track bison on foot in places where there is a chance to meet them. In this version, it is a little harder to meet a bison, but the joy of tracking is much greater.
When booking, please indicate which version you are interested in.
Our guests come from all over the world — families, solo travelers and nature lovers — and share one thing in common: unforgettable memories from the primeval Białowieża Forest. Here’s what they say about their experience with Totem Expeditions.
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In Chile I was a fisherman, in Patagonia I almost became a gaucho, in Finland I roamed the swamps of distant Lapland picking Nordic raspberries. I am genetically addicted to unpopular and off-trail places.
Monika is a certified guide in Białowieża forest and a local in fourth generation. Her mother used to be a guide for over 20 years and her father works in the Białowieża NP.
She was raised in the northern part of the forest where she was roaming wild with her sibling.
For the last few years she has lived close to Białowieża village.
For over 10 years Ania has been living in the heart of the Białowieża Forest — a place that has become her home, her inspiration, and the space where she truly thrives.
Professionally, she is a forest educator. Every day she has the privilege of sharing knowledge about the forest, telling stories about its mysteries, and showing how much we can learn from nature.
And privately? She trains boxing — just like the Forest — teaches her calm and mindfulness. And when she returns from the woods… she sings. Sometimes still among the trees, sometimes already at home, but always with a soul full of sound.
She invites you into her world — filled with wolf howls, the grunts of European bison, and the scent of the ancient forest.
As an 11-year-old, he first learned about the existence of the Białowieża Forest from the WWF magazine. He dreamed then to come to Poland and see the Forest with his own eyes. The road was winding: first he became a paratrooper in the special forces of Portugal, then he worked in a rehabilitation center for wolves, went to a corporation in Poland, and finally dropped everything and moved to Białowieża. He married a Polish painter, Basia Bańka, with whom they live in Białowieża. Every morning he takes cold baths in Narewka and then goes to the Forest.
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INDIVIDUAL OFFER
We provide group and individual tours daily. Price for group tours start from: 70 euro/pp., price for individual tour from 99 euro/pp.
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