3 days – Bird Photography Tour in Cat Tien National Park

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Today, with the convenience of the camera, and interaction via social networks such as Facebook, twitter … has made birds photography a trend with a large number of participants.
A trip to take photos of beautiful birds is our goal. To do that, several bird-hide spots were created by us. You will spend most of your time waiting for many birds to come and you just need to take a shot, choose a few photos that you like the best.
In Cat Tien National Park, we have created 3 hides for bird watching spots so that you can have beautiful birds, such as: Bar-bellied Pitta, Blue-rumped Pitta, Germain’s Peacock-Pheasant, Siamese Fireback,  Green-legged Partridge, Orange-necked Partridge.

In addition, you can also meet many beautiful birds visiting the hide : Lesser yellownaped, Common Flameback, Black-crested Bulbul, Black-headed Bulbul, Ochraceous Bulbul, Stripe-throated Bulbul, Slaty-legged Crake, Greater Coucal, Greater racket-tailed Drongo, Indochinese Blue Flycatcher, Hainan Blue Flycatcher, Abbott’s Babbler, Buff-throated Babbler…

We will take a day for you to follow the main trails in Cat Tien, on these routes, with about 3km of walking you will have the opportunity to meet many beautiful birds to take pictures such as: Black and Red Broadbill, Dusky Broadbill, Banded Broadbill, Blue-bearded Bee-eater, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, Banded Kingfisher, Pied Horbill, Great Hornbill, Blue-winged leafbird, Chestnut-fronted leafbird, Yellow-vented Flowerpecker, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Ruby-cheeked Sunbird, Crimson Sunbird, Van Hasselt’s Sunbird, Little Spiderhunter …

This three days for birds photography tour in Cat Tien will give us a chance to see most important bird species and some other wildlife, although this can be optioned for only 1 night stay or 3 nights stay depends on your time budget. We will start early in the morning to leave Sai Gon and travel by private car for 150km (about 3.5 hours) to reach the park.

• Day 1: Pick up at HCMC at 6:30 am , Transport to Cat tien national park., All afternoon birding in Cat tien NP : walk in main trails for some nice bird : trogon, broadbills, sunbirds, leafbirds, hornbill…
• Day 2: All day in Cat Tien : Morning time in bird-hide for : Pittas. Afternoon another hide for Germain’s peacock pheasant, Siamese fireback.
• Day 3: Pick to grassland by car for Green peafowl, woodpeckers… then back to center headquater , check out to back to Hochiminh city, arrive at 18:00pm.