Designed for photographers. Inspired by wildlife.
At Wildlife Dreams, every hide, vehicle and safari is designed around the moments, light and encounters that make great wildlife photographs.
Come for the wildlife. Stay for the photographs. Leave with images you’ll be proud to show as part of your wildlife portfolio.
Choose from three ways to experience wildlife through the lens.
Five interconnected hides in Estonia, open all year
Handpicked selection of world-renowned specialist wildlife hides
Interconnected wildlife photographic hides in Estonia, 20 photographers at 2m windows
Open every season, from minus 25C winters to long summer evenings
Partner hides all over the world
Fixed-date departures for groups of four to eight photographers
Google rating from guests across Europe
Set in the wild landscapes near Krootuse, our private hide complex brings you remarkably close to the action. Specialist one-way glass allows you to photograph at close range while wildlife remains completely undisturbed, creating natural, intimate images of bears and other woodland species in their own environment.
With floodlit hides and 24-hour access, you can photograph from the last light of evening, through the night and into the first light of morning, giving you more opportunities to work with changing light and behaviour.
Join carefully planned, fixed-date journeys to some of the world’s most exciting wildlife destinations.
More time behind the camera, greater flexibility on location, and an experience built around the needs of photographers. Where possible, our vehicles are configured specifically for photography with a maximum of four photographers per vehicle.
Our guides understand animal behaviour and know the individuals they track. We carefully consider distance, light and timing, creating the conditions and opportunities for you to make compelling wildlife images.
Spain, Mongolia, Zambia and Tanzania, with new destinations to come.
Our latest project marks a milestone in Estonian wildlife conservation. By tracking bear movements via GPS collars, Wildlife Dreams is helping to reduce human-wildlife conflict and ensuring a sustainable future for our largest carnivores.
Estonia offers outstanding wildlife photography opportunities. Species you can photograph from our hide include brown bear, red fox, raccoon dog, roe deer, European badger, pine marten, Eurasian beaver, and otter. Birds of prey include white-tailed eagle, golden eagle, northern goshawk, and marsh harrier, alongside a rich variety of woodland birds.
Estonia offers rewarding wildlife photography year-round. Spring (April–May) is ideal for animals with young and fresh green light. Summer evenings are long, giving extended hide sessions with active brown bears. Autumn brings mist and the elk rut. Winter attracts white-tailed and golden eagles and draws species closer to hides as natural food becomes scarce.
Estonia is one of the best places in Europe to photograph brown bears in the wild. The country holds a thriving bear population, and specialist photography hides in south-eastern Estonia allow photographers to observe and photograph bears at close range in natural conditions.
The Iberian lynx can be photographed in Spain on one of our wildlife photographic journeys. The Eurasian lynx which lives in Estonia and wider Europe, there is no dedicated photographic hide for this species but it is one of the hide projects that we are working on. Please sign up for our newsletter for further information.
