5 days tour for primates in the Middle and South of Vietnam

Description

5 days tour for primates in the Middle and South of Vietnam: Visit Can Gio – Cat Tien National park and Danang city for bird watching and wildlife tour in Vietnam

Day 1: Hochiminh city – Can Gio mangrove forest

Targets: Long-tailed Macaque, Pig-tailed Macaque, Irrawaddy dolphin.

Irrawaddy dolphin

Pick you up at the hotel in Hochiminh city at 5:30 am, transport to Can Gio mangrove forest, arrive at the boat station at 8:00 am, use a boat to visit the mangrove forest in Can Gio, then watch Irrawaddy Dolphin, the rarest dolphin in the world.

11:30 am visit Monkey island, watch and photograph 2 kinds of macaque in Vietnam: long-tailed and Pig-tailed.

Pig-tailed macaque

01:00 pm lunch in Can Gio.

02:00 pm move to Cat Tien NP, arrive at Cat Tien at 7:00 pm.

Accommodation: Cat Tien NP

Day 2: Cat Tien National park

Early morning for Black-shanked Douc langur, then go to Crocodile lake, on the way to see Black-shanked Douc and Annam Silver Langur.

10:00 am will use the boat to see Siamese Crocodile in the lake

14:00 back way to the park (6km in walking and 9km more in safari car)

Sambar deer

Nighttime will spotlight Pygmy loris and some kind of mammals around the park trails.

Accommodation: same as the first night.

Day 3: Cat Tien national park back to Hochiminh City, then flight to Danang City

Gibbon watching and photography for Yellow-checked Gibbon,

Visit 30 min to bird-hide to see “Germain’s peacock pheasant” an attractive and endemic bird of Cat Tien NP.

Yellow-cheeked Gibbon

11:00 am, check out and move back to Hochiminh City center at 4:00 pm, take a flight to Da Nang city at 6:30 pm.

Accommodation: Da nang city.

Day 4: Danang City

Morning visit to Son Tra peninsular for Red-shanked Douc, the Rhesus macaque.

Afternoon: Linh Ung pagoda and visit a famous cultural destination in Danang: Cham’s ethnic group museum.

Move to Hoi An ancient city

Red-shanked Douc

Day 5: Quang Nam province for Grey-shanked Douc.

Morning: car then walks to the place of Grey-shanked Douc, watch, and photography.

Lunch in Hoi An city,

Back to Danang city, arrive at the airport at 3:00 pm.

Note: the Itinerary will be flexible to your time and your previous trip in Vietnam, but all targets will be in your budgets