The Best Places to See Bears 🐻 🐻‍❄️ (And One We'd Skip)

After visiting more than 90 countries and territories across all seven continents, we're sharing our favourite wildlife experiences and the destinations we'd return to in a heartbeat. This is the first video in the series, and we're starting with bears. From the salmon-filled rivers of Alaska and the remote wilderness of British Columbia to the polar bears of Churchill and Svalbard, we compare the places we'd return to, the experiences that surprised us most, and why we'd choose one destination over another. Bear with us (see what we did there?) as this is our first long form video. Chapters 00:00 Best places to see bears in the wild 00:42 Brooks Falls, Alaska 04:23 Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Canada 06:51 Churchill, Canada (Summer Polar Bears) 07:34 Churchill, Canada (Winter Polar Bears) 10:04 Svalbard Polar Bears 11:43 What's next: Best places to see big cats Links mentioned in this video 📍Brooks Lodge - https://katmailand.com/ 📍Explore.org Brooks Falls Live Webcam - https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brooks-falls-brown-bears-low 📍Fat Bear Week - https://katmaiconservancy.org/fatbearweek 📍Khutzeymateen Wilderness Lodge - https://www.grizzlytour.com/ 📍Lazy Bear Expeditions - https://www.lazybearlodge.com/ 📍Frontiers North Tundra Buggy Lodge - https://frontiersnorth.com/experience/tundra-buggy-lodge/ 📍Best Wildlife Experiences Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DtY2eaENI&list=PLFjthYaqbbk4 👀 Read more about the experiences featured in this video 🐻 Seventeen Years of Dreaming of Returning to Brooks Lodge https://andyandjennifer.com/2024/07/20/wild-alaska/ 🐻 Visiting the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary - https://andyandjennifer.com/2025/07/15/visiting-the-khutzeymateen-grizzly-sanctuary/ 🐻‍❄️ A Summer Day with Polar Bears on Fireweed Island - https://andyandjennifer.com/2025/08/07/fireweed-island-polar-bears-and-belugas-in-churchill/ 🐻‍❄️ We Slept on A Tundra Buggy to See Polar Bears https://andyandjennifer.com/2008/11/30/the-polar-bears-of-churchill/ 🐻‍❄️ Svalbard Photography Expedition - https://andyandjennifer.com/2025/04/23/svalbard-photography-expedition-arctic-wildlife-travel-tips/ 💬 Have you had an epic experience with bears? Let us know in the comments. 👍 If you enjoyed this video, we'd love to have you along for the series. Subscribe for honest reflections and behind-the-scenes insights into full-time slow travel and wildlife adventures around the world. 📖 If you want a practical guide to turning your travel dreams into a lifetime of unforgettable memories, we mapped out our step-by-step process in Wanderlist Blueprint https://mybook.to/Wanderlist-Blueprint ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 CONNECT & SUPPORT US: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Subscribe to our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@weareandyandjennifer 📸 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareandyandjennifer/ 👥 Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weareandyandjennifer ☕ Buy us a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/andyandjennifer ABOUT ANDY & JENNIFER - SHARING THE WORLD We're Jennifer and Andy, two early retirees travelling the world full-time, with wildlife photography guiding where we go. Instead of keeping a permanent home, we've built a life around slow travel, staying for weeks or months at a time while exploring some of the world's best wildlife destinations. Along the way, we share honest reviews, practical planning advice, photography tips, and the lessons we're learning as we design a life built around experiences over stuff. #WildlifeTravel #WildlifePhotography #BearPhotography #BrooksFalls #Alaska #Katmai #Khutzeymateen #BritishColumbia #Canada #Churchill #Svalbard #PolarBears #GrizzlyBears #BrownBears