This is the longest journey, 24 days, a long journey for bird watching, wildlife, and especially primates in Vietnam.
This journey will bring more than 300 species of birds to be seen, with more than 200 species you will have beautiful images recorded, as well as more than 12 species of Vietnamese endemic primates, including the famous Red-Shanked Douc.
Journey route
The journey will start from Ho Chi Minh City and end in Hanoi. This is a journey throughout Vietnam and does not use domestic flights. If your time is limited, you can consider cutting out one For some itineraries, you will have to use a local flight. We will advise you on the airport and flight route suitable for the tour schedule.
An overview schedule is listed below.
Day 1: HCM city – Cangio mangrove forest
Birds: Shorebirds in migratory and native birds, about 40 species.
5:00 am pick-up from Hochiminh City. Breakfast and coffee at the restaurant on the way.
7:00 -11:00 am Birding in the mangrove forest and salt farms
Vineous Tit
Mudskipper
14:00 – 16:00 Monkey island for macaque – longtaied macaque and pig-tailed macaque/
16:00 – 19:00 pm: transport to Dong Nai Nature reserve.
Long tailed Macaque
Pig tailed Macaque
Collared Kingfisher
Ashy tailorbird
Day 2: Dong Nai Nature Reserve
7:00 am arrive to the first hide in Dong Nai NR for Bar-bellied Pitta, Blue-rumped Pitta, Broadbills, Babbler, Racket-tailed treepie…
11:00 am lunch and rest to 12:30 pm.
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm: the second hide for Indochinese green magpie, woodpeckers, Indochinese babbler, Silver breasted broadbill, Black and red broadbill…
4:00 pm start to Cat Tien National Park
Bar bellied Pitta
Blue eared kingfisher
Silver breasted Broadbill
Black and red broadbill
Banded Kingfisher
Laced woodpecker and Indochinese green magpie
Day 3: Cat tien NP
Early morning visit to the hide for Germain’s peacock pheasant, Green-legged partridge…
9 am: visit the place can take a photo of Yellow-cheeked Gibbon.
Night: spotlight for Pygmy loris.
Germain’s peacock pheasant
Yellow-cheeked Gibbon
Siamese fireback
Yellow-cheeked Gibbon
Black hooded oriole
Black and buff Woodpecker
Day 4: Cat Tien National Park
Morning uses the safari car then Crocodile hiking for Black-shanked Douc, Annamese silver langur, banded broadbill …
Afternoon: walk in trails for Orange-breasted Trogon, Banded broadbill, leafbirds…
Night safari: Civets, Flying Squirrel, Pygmy loris…
Black-shanked Douc
Orange breasted Trogon
Day 5: Cat Tien National Park – Dilinh forest
Morning grassland for Sambar deer, Red muntjak, Green peafowls…
Bird photography along the trails: Lesser yellow nape, Black-hooded Oriole, Violet cuckoo, Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo; Drongo, Racket-tailed Treepie…
11:00 am: Check out then lunchtime on the way to Dilinh town
2:00 pm: bird photography in the hide in Dilinh forest
Sambar deer
Green peafowl
Black headed parrotbill
Long tailed broadbill
Day 6: forest in Dilinh – Dalat city
Morning visits other hide for Blue pitta, Bar-backed Partridge, Indochinese green magpie… Black-chinned Yuhina, Black-headed parrotbill, long-tailed Broadbill…
Bar-backed partridge
Blue Pitta
Trails: Vietnamese cutie, Red-vented barbet
4:00 pm Transportation to Dalat city.
Accommodation: Dalat City Hotel.
Indochinese green magpie
Day 7: Bidoup Nui Ba National Park
Early morning birding around spots in Dalat city for Grey-crowned Crocias, Vietnamese greenfinch, Langbian tit, Chestnut-vented Nuthatch, …
Dalat shrike babbler
Vietnamese greenfinch
Grey crowned Crocias
Langbian Sunbird
Move to the Bidoup Nuiba NP, for Red Crossbill, Slender-billed Oriole, Vinous breasted Myna…