Dawn Chorus Holidays

To explore the bountiful East Anglian countryside, you're not bound to roads and paths: head to Beccles (five minutes' drive) and canoe your way down the Waveney. It's half an hour's drive to Dunwich beach and the surrounding Suffolk Coast National Nature Reserve, a mix of gorse-covered heaths, wild cliffs and sand dunes. If all that windswept nature leaves you fatigued, make the 45-minute trip to Wroxham for boat trips, exploring the inland wetland wonders of the Norfolk Broads from a comfy seat. For a wander down various avenues of the past, it's 15 minutes to the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum and the East Anglian Transport Museum and half an hour to the 19th-century grandeur of Somerleyton Hall. If you like some roaring with your walks, head to Africa Alive! (20 minutes) to explore an 80-acre slice of the continent, and its assorted cheetahs, gibbons, rhinos and zebras. More wildlife? It's half an hour to the Oasis Camel Park, for rides on the hump-backed desert beasts. Top off your nature encounters with the watery residents of SEA LIFE Great Yarmouth, 40 minutes away. Younger travellers can shriek to their hearts' content on the thrill rides of Pleasurewood Hills, half an hour away, zip through the trees and ride boats down the jungle rivers of Bewilderwood (50 minutes) or get up close and personal with a pterodactyl or two at the ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure theme park (50 minutes).