10-DAY BIRDING IN THE SOUTHERN VIETNAM
10-DAY BIRDING IN THE SOUTHERN VIETNAM
10-DAY BIRDING IN THE SOUTHERN VIETNAM
Besides long history, unique culture and beautiful landscape, Vietnam is an attractive destination for bird lovers all around the world. Some are critically endangered, less-known and almost impossible to see. You will be given the best chance to see almost endemics and specialities in the Southern Vietnam. Join us to explore the excellent variety of birds during this trip.
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JOURNEY HIGHLIGHTS Walking along the ecologic routes to explore the rare plants and animals listed in the World Red Book. Animal spotting at Ta Lai buffer zone (view animals at night). Rare bird seeking at Cat Tien, Di Linh and Da Lat. |
TOUR INCLUSION
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Please contact us directly for the best price. Price is fully included: Accommodation (base on sharing 2 person/room), all transportation, all meals, bottled water, all entrance fees, domestic airfares, guide fees, all tips for local drivers/guides.
Itinerary
We will depart from Saigon to Cat Tien National Park early in the morning.
Enter the Nam Cat Tien National Park and there we shall begin to explore the fabulous reserve during the afternoon.
Checkin and have lunch at Cat Tien Jungle Lodge with the river view.
Take a 8-km-walking into the beauty of tropical forest to find out more about the diversity ecosystem and unspoilt wildlife.
You can freely ride a bike on small trails through the jungle or simply chill down in the glorious view.
Electric car will transfer you back to the center of the National Park for dinner. Then you will have a memorable night on the night jeep riding to Ta Lai buffer zone for animal spotting like Loris, Pangolins, Civets, …
Stay and relax at Cat Tien Jungle Lodge. (3 nights)
Our jeep driver will transfer us to the Crocodile Lake, which has a long list of target species such as Germain's Peacock Pheasant, Siamese Fireback, Green Peafowl, Wreathed Hornbill, Lesser Adjutant, Woolly-necked Stork, Blue-rumped and Bar-bellied Pittas, and many other widespread species such as Doves, Bulbuls, Purple Swamphen, White-breasted Waterhen, Kingfishers, etc.
We will get to Heaven Rapids by jeep in the morning to search for Pale-headed and Black-and-buff Woodpeckers, Black-and-red, Banded and Dusky Broadbill.
We can either walk or use the jeep to visit grassland habitat for seeing Indochinese Green Peafowl and several widespread species.
What’s more, Cat Tien also offers an important refuge for Black-shanked Douc Langur, one of the most colourful and least known primates in Asia and Yellow-cheeked Gibbon.
Stay overnight at Cat Tien Jungle Lodge.
From Cat Tien, we will transfer you to Di Linh Town.
Visit Suoi Lanh Pass in the early morning to look for other interesting species that could include Blue Pitta, Indochinese Green Magpie, Spotted Forktail and handsome Green Cochoa.
It is also a perfect spot for Spotted Forktail, Blue Pitta, Black-hooded and Orange-breasted Laughingthrush, Black-crowned Parrotbill, Red-billed Scimitar Babbler, Indochinese Cuckooshrike, Annam Barbet and near endemic White-cheeked Laughingthrush as well as Red-vented Barbet.
Stay overnight at Bao Loc Homestay.
Early morning in Nui San Pass to search for other interesting species including Indochinese Barbet, Necklaced Barbet, Clicking Shrike-Babbler, Yellow-vented Green Pigeon, Indochinese Green Magpie, Silver Pheasant, Rufous-backed Sibia, Maroon Oriole, Red-billed Scimitar Babbler, Red-headed Trogon.
After your morning birding, we will head up to Dalat romantic city.
With a progressively-steeper footpath, we will easily access the Langbiang peak with 2169m in height – surrounded with evergreen forest and variety of species.
Our goals in Dalat are Dalat Shrike-babbler, Vietnamese Greenfinch, Black-crowned Fulvetta, Orange-breasted & Collared laughingthrushes and Grey-crowned Crocias. Near endemics here include Grey-crowned Tit, Black-crowned Parrotbill, White-cheeked and Black-hooded laughingthrushes, and Vietnamese Cutia. Other target birds in this bird-rich area are the elusive Blue & Rusty-naped pittas, Indochinese Cuckooshrike, Slender-billed Oriole, Hume’s Treecreeper, Yellowbilled Nuthatch and a very distinctive race of Red Crossbill.
Birding in the early morning before your flight in the afternoon.