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Cruising in a tundra buggy in Churchill 🇨🇦 Follow for more ethical wildlife encounters and bucketlist experiences! Churchill, located in northern Manitoba, is primarily known as the polar bear capital of the world 🐻‍❄️, with up to 1,000 polar bears congregating around the town from late October through mid-November, as they await the Hudson Bay to freeze over. After previously visiting the tiny town for polar bear season, we recently headed up again in August to see the beluga whales that migrate here every summer 🐋 Even though we were visiting well outside of bear season, we thought it would be fun to go out on a tundra buggy tour to enjoy Churchill’s unique landscape, which is a mixture of rocky coastline, subarctic tundra, and boreal forest🌲, and maybe even spot some wildlife 🦊 Let us know if you want us to send you a link to the exact tour we took! The tundra buggy itself is SO impressive—it’s like a giant (eight tons!) school bus that’s actually an electric vehicle ⚡️, so you can silently roll across the landscape with zero emissions (pretty dang cool in our book!). And, despite being unsure if we’d see any wildlife, we wound up spotting several caribou 🦌, an Arctic hare, TONS of cool bears, and three very cute polar bears 🐻‍❄️ So, if you happen to visit Churchill outside of polar bear season, it’s still worth going on an Arctic safari, if you ask us!! What’s your favorite animal you’ve spotted in the wild? #churchillmanitoba #polarbears #polarbear #manitoba