Stories & Species leads small, unhurried nature tours across the Dutch dunes and woodlands — guided by curiosity, run on eco-friendly ground rules, and logged like a proper naturalist's notebook.
Right now, every Stories & Species tour is led by me, in person — no scripts, no rushing between stops. The starting point is the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen: a dune and woodland landscape a short ride from Amsterdam, quiet enough that you'll actually hear it.
Eco-friendly isn't a marketing word here — it's a working rule: small groups, no trampling off-path, no disturbing what we come to see. The name is the method: 'stories' is how a place gets remembered, 'species' is what a place is actually made of.
This is the beginning of something bigger — more on that further down — but every tour today is still just one guide, one small group, one route.
Ecologist and evolutionary biologist (MSc Evolution & Ecology, University of Amsterdam), with a wider interest in anything that touches or relates to nature — not just the species list.
Every tour is logged like an observation — where it happens, what you'll likely see, and how it runs. Formats flex to the group; the routes stay honest about what's actually out there.
The first route, and the one currently in pilot. A walking loop through dune valleys, pine woodland, and open water — built around what's actually moving that week, not a fixed script.
For a family, a small company outing, or someone chasing one specific thing — a bird, a season, a story. Tell me the interest and the time you have, and the route gets built around it.
Describe your route →A tested route we're in conversation with, run by a local horse-trekking guide. If it joins the log, it'll carry the same standard as everything else here.
None of this replaces the tours above — it's what they're building toward. Slowly, and only where it holds up to the same standard.
Bringing tested, eco-vetted nature tours from other guides into the same log — not a marketplace, a shortlist.
Starting with routes like the Kyrgyzstan horse trek — helping with European customer support before anything is formal.
An on-the-ground presence somewhere the tours actually happen — closer contact, closer accountability.
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