Bidoup Nui Ba National Park and Da Lat city are an attractive destination for all birders when coming to Vietnam.
Where is Bidoup Nui Ba National Park located?
Bidoup Nui Ba National Park is in Lam Dong province, embracing Da Lat city and neighboring districts, so to get here, you just need to find your way to Da Lat city.
You can get to this National Park in many ways:
- Bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat city, 10 minutes/trip, sleeper bus you can sleep 8 hours on the bus.
- Bus from Nha Trang city to Da Lat city, sleeper bus, travel time is about 3 hours.
- Bus from Phan Thiet city, takes about 5 hours.
- Plane: from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang airports, there are direct flights to Da Lat airport. From this airport, it will take you about 45 minutes by taxi to get to the city center.
Why do tourists like to come to Da Lat city?
The climate of southern Vietnam is generally extremely humid, with humidity always high at over 90%, and even more oppressive with high temperatures, always around 30C on average.
Therefore, people like to come to Da Lat just because it has a very pleasant climate: temperature from 16-22C.
In addition, the cool climate always brings wonderful landscapes, forests, flower gardens and a variety of local specialties.
What is special about Bidoup Nui Ba National Park?
Bidoup Nui Ba is located in the Langbian Plateau with an altitude of more than 800m above sea level. This place features evergreen broadleaf forests in the high mountains. The forest in Bidoup Nui Ba is primeval forest, with very diverse flora and fauna, especially the attraction of birds, amphibians and reptiles.
The Langbian Plateau is like a terrestrial island, surrounded by lowlands. Therefore, the animals here have been geographically separated for tens of millions of years from neighboring areas.
Such geographical separation causes animal species here to develop in a different direction, leading to the formation of more endemic species. Especially birds (19 endemic species in the Langbian Plateau and Bidoup Nui Ba National Park alone); In addition, snakes, amphibians, reptiles… are also highly endemic.
What types of bird we may find in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park?
Alpine region (Langbian Mountain) is surrounded by a low surrounding plain, creating a geographical separation from the birds. Therefore, the birds in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park have many differences with the rest of Vietnam and the world.
There are many very different bird species endemic to Vietnam such as: Grey-crowned Crocias, Collared laughingthrush, Orange-breasted laughingthrush, Black hooded Laughingthrush, White-cheeked Laughingthrush, Dalat Shrike-babbler, Dalat Bush-warble, Langbian Sunbird, Langbian Tit, Annam Sunbird, Annam minivet, Grey crowned Tit, Indochinese Fulvetta, Black-crowned Fulvetta, Vietnamese Cutia, Vietnamese Greenfinch, Annam Barbet, Yellow crowned Magpie, Plain Minla, …
Some of the beautiful birds that birdwatchers always look forward to seeing here are: Blue Pitta, Rusty-naped Pitta, Indochinese Green Magpie, Silver eared mesia, Black-headed Sibia, Blyth’s Kingfisher, Indochinese Wren Babbler, Collared Babbler, Black-headed Parrotbill, Lesser Shortwing, Rufous-throated partridge, Yellow-cheeked Tit … Silver Pheasant, Red-vented Barbet, Red-headed Trogon, Silver-breasted Broadbill, Long-tailed Broadbill, Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon, Mountain Imperial Pigeon, Black Eagle, Changeable hawk-eagle, Mountain hawk-eagle, White-bellied Sea-eagle, Rufous-bellied Eagle, Jerdon’s Baza, Kloss’s leaf-warbler, Blyth’s leaf warbler, Claudia’s Leaf-warbler, Spotted forktail, Slaty-backed Forktail, Plumbeous Redstar, Grey-wagtail, Flavescent Bulbul, Ashy Bulbul, Mountain Bulbul, Black Bulbul, Sooty headed bulbul, Yellow-billed Nuthatch, Gray bushchat, Little pied Flycather, Snowy Flycatcher, …
With the bird-hide of Vietnambirds, you will have change to take good photos of birds: Collared laughingthrush, White-cheeked laughingthrush, Black-hooded laughingthrush, Black-crowned Fulvetta, Rusty-naped Pitta, Indochinese Green-magpie, Black headed Sibia, White-browed Scimitar babbler, Pygmy Wren babbler, Grey billed Tesia, Snowy-browed Flycatcher, Rufous browed Flycatcher, White-tailed Robin, Large niltava, Slaty-backed forktail, Spotted Forktail, Rufous-throated Patridge, …
Wildlife in Bidoup Nuiba National Park ?
- More than 70 species of reptile with some nice reptile we can find in Bidoup Nuiba National Park : Acanthosaura coronate, Cyrtodactylus bidoupimontis, Ovophis monticola, Sphenomorphus maculatus, Pseudoxenodon macrop,, Pareas, Trimeresurus, Oligodon, Lycodon, …
- More than 30 species of amphibian. With some nice amphibian we can see in Bidoup Nuiba National park : Rhacophorus vampyrus, Rhacophorus calcaneus, Raorchestes gryllus, Odorrana chloronota, Limnonectes poilani, Leptolalax bidoupensis, Leptobranchium pullum, Kurixalus baliogaster, Feihyla palpebralis, Chiromantis nongkhorensis, Brachytarsophrys intermedia…
How to choose a hotel in Da Lat city, Bidoup Nui Ba national park?
Da Lat city has more hotels than resident house, so you can choose freely if you travel by yourself.
However, with the nature of bird watching tours, you often have to get up early and leave early to go to bird watching spots, take bird photos… the journey takes a few dozen minutes to more than an hour. If you choose the wrong hotel, traffic jams and hotels too far from bird watching places will make you miss a good time to see them.
Of course, in the package tour, Vietnambirds always has familiar hotels, suitable for traveling to bird watching spots, going to good restaurants for delicious meals and food safety,…
The hotel of Bidoup Nui Ba National Park helps you have a good time to relax and rest. When you open the door, you can see many species of birds such as Red crossbill, Slender-billed Oriole, Annam Minivet… making you save travel time.
Why should you not choose to go bird watching in Vietnam by yourself?
To be able to observe birds in Vietnam, you must understand that birds in this country have many dangers that they always face:
- If they are large birds, like dove, partridge, pheasants… or even tree sparrow, they will be eaten, Vietnamese people like to eat birds that are not kept in captivity. Due to taste, Vietnamese people are willing to pay very high prices for things caught birds, mammals, snakes, fishs… in the natural environment. You will be surprised, but Vietnamese people do not eat industrially raised chicken, and fried chicken like KFC fast food is only liked by children and teenagers. Therefore, birds in the wild in Vietnam face great pressure from being slaughtered.
Vietnam is a fairly open society, people can drink for a few days without company, the more passionate they are about drinking and eating, the more time they have to hunt or buy things from the forest.
- If they are small birds with beautiful colors like Sunbirds, Leafbirds, Mesia, they will become ornamental birds. The price of ornamental birds is very expensive, so it is common for local people to hunt them down to sell to pet-shops. It happens very naturally, it is like a profession, and brings income to hunters and pet-shops.
- If they are birds without beautiful colors, but have good songs like babbler, laughthrush… they also become ornamental birds, and are sold uncontrollably in pet-shops.
Thus, in general, to survive in Vietnam, birds must be small, colorless, songless and cannot be eaten.
Therefore, birds in Vietnam in general have very high skills (due to evolution suitable for indigenous people) which is the skill of avoiding humans. They will try to stay as far away from humans as possible. Because birds that are naive enough to be friendly with humans have all suffered the same fate of “becoming caged pets (will die after a while)” or being eaten.
When you understand the problem, you will see the need for a bird-guide, because:
- We help you see birds in Vietnam, help you take photos of them easily.
- You won’t have to come back again and again, saving you time and money.
- We help you choose delicious meals, with many Vietnamese specialties that you need to enjoy.
- We guarantee your safety because traveling on the road in Vietnam has many potential risks due to traffic accidents.
- We have great guides who can be your effective bridge to the birds, nature, and people of Vietnam, they are very hospitable.
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