8 Days for Bird Watching and Birds Photography in Cat Tien National Park, Di Linh Plateau and Bidoup Nuiba National Park

With this Birding and Birds Photography tour schedule, we will experience 6 days in 2 largest national parks in southern Vietnam: Cat Tien National Park and Bidoup National Park. More than a day of the journey we will visit the Di Linh plateau, home to Deo Nui San Pass, a long-standing bird watching spot, this is a place with a transitional climate between the two national parks of Cat Tien and Bidoup.

With the 8-day duration of this tour, visitors will be able to see almost all the bird species in the south of Vietnam, including 12 endemic bird species and more than 250 native bird species, more than 30 migratory bird species seasonal residence….

The difference in geography, especially in the elevation of each national park, has created different forest ecological types, from hot and humid lowland areas, deciduous dipterocarp forests, bamboo mixed broadleaf forests, broadleaf forests in temperate climates, to coniferous forests, evergreen broadleaf forests on high mountains…

What will visitors experience when traveling to Cat Tien National Park and Bidoup Nuiba National Park, Dalat City?

If you are looking for the best bird watching tour in south vietnam for a week, then this is the perfect choice. Two national parks not too far apart, two different climates and habitats, a list of more than 300 bird species with more than 10 species endemic to Vietnam found,…

In Cat Tien National Park, visitors can experience the hot and humid evergreen broadleaf forest, or the type of bamboo forest mixed with broadleaf trees, sometimes crossing the deciduous dipterocarp forests of Asia.

On the way between Cat Tien and Bidoup, visitors will have a stop at Di Linh, where there are immense coffee fields, many beautiful birds.

In Bidoup National Park, visitors can discover a completely different forest type, high mountain humid tropical forest habitat, cold air, clouds and drizzle make the forest more dense, birds more.. Tourists will also go to the vast green pine forests, visit the lakeside forests on the plateau.

What is the birds targets of this bird watching trip?

Different forest types and climates create different, almost separate bird features.

In Cat Tien National Park, we will meet some typical birds such as: Bar-bellied Pitta, Blue-rumped Pitta, Germain’s Peacock Pheasant Siamese Fireback,Orange-necked Partridge, Green-legged Patridge, Banded Kingfisher, Black and Red Broadbill, Banded Broadbill, Orange-breasted Trogon, Pale-headed Woodpecker, Green peafowl, …

BAR-BELLIED PITTA IN CAT TIEN NATIONAL PARK.

The birds list will see more with : Lesser yellownaped, Bay woodpecker, Great slaty woodpecker,  Common flameback, White-rumped Shama, square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo, Black drongo, Ashy Drongo, Blue-winged leafbird, Golden-fronted leafbird, Yellow-vented flowerpecker, Scarlet-backed flowerpecker, little spiderhunter, Crimson sunbird, Ruby-cheeked sunbird…

Deo Nui San Pass is a bird watching spot that has long been recorded with many endemic bird species of Vietnam, such as: Orange-breasted laughingthrush, black-hooded laughingthrush,  black-headed parrotbill, as well as beautiful and rare birds such as: Blue pitta, Indochinese green magpie, bar-backed partridge, red-billed scimitar babbler, large scimitar babber, Orange-headed Thrush, White-throated Rock-thrush, Siberian Thrush, Blue-throated Blue-flycatcher, Streak-wren Babbler, Buff-breasted Babbler, Grey-throated Babbler, Puff-throated Bulbul, Ashy Bulbul, White-bellied Erpornis,…

BLUE PITTA IN DEO NUI SAN HOT-SPOT.

While at Bidoup Nuiba National Park, we will encounter some typical birds such as: Collared laughingthrush, Indochinese Wren-babbler, Grey-crowned Crocias, Orange-breasted and Black-hooded Laughingthrushes, Vietnamese Cutia and Vietnamese Greenfinch, Black-crowned Fulvetta, Yellow-billed Nuthatch, Langbian Sunbird,…

And more nice birds around the trails and some spot around Dalat city as :

Pygmy Wren-babbler, Grey-bellied Tesia, Rufous-throated Partridge, Black-headed Sibia, Snowy-browed Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Yellow-cheeked Tit, Black-throated Tit, Spotted Forktail, Slaty-backed Forktail, Common Green Magpie, Mountain  Fulvetta, Lesser shortwing,Annam sunbird , Grey-cheeked laughingthrush…

COLLARED LAUGHINGTHRUSH IN BIDOUP NUIBA NATIONAL PARK

A bird watching tour that combines travel to learn about local culture and traditional cuisine?

Cat Tien National Park has villages of ethnic minorities, the indigenous ethnic group here is the Stieng, visitors can visit the village of Stieng people and enjoy their traditional wine, drink from the bottles. A long bamboo tube is plugged into a large bottle of wine that is naturally fermented from leaves picked in the forest.

Indigenous people in the Di Linh highland are the Ma, they used to have a small kingdom in this land, although they no longer retain their own identities, we will enjoy the coffee grown by them. The coffee here has a very unique taste.

A little higher in the Langbian plateau, where there is a legend of the Koho people about the love of a boy named Lang and a girl named Bian, they have experienced many events in life, and ascended high, turning into high mountains, the highest peak of Lang-bian is the expression of love and harmony with nature of the Koho ethnic group. In the days of bird watching tour in Da Lat and Bidoup, visitors will have the experience of enjoying meals in the local traditional style, going to the night market in Da Lat city to see funny local gifts. , …