Birds and Wildlife Tour of Northeast India

Welcome to India. Your lifetime adventure starts the moment you land in Delhi. Delhi is beyond touristy destinations, a Delhi that is magic. Great birding wetlands, monuments and garden birds, bank mynas on the stations, coexistence of humans and animals - the visual sights are any photographer's delight.

Arrive at Delhi airport in the evening

Day at leisure

You will be met and transferred to the Hotel for overnight stay.

Suggested places for bird watching: Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary & Lodhi Gardens

This tour can be customized for you.

A visit to Nameri is venturing into the past - the real taste of rural India. A great stop-over for birds and your first day of making the checklist.

Transfer from the hotel to the airport to connect morning flight to Guwahati

Arrive at Guwahati airport, you will be met and transferred to Nameri Tiger Reserve (5-hour drive)

Overnight stay

Species:
White-winged wood duck, Great Pied Hornbill, Wreathed Hornbill, Rufous Necked Hornbill, Black Stork, Ibis Bill, Large Whistling Teal, King Vulture, Long-Billed Ring Plover, Kalij Pheasant, Hill Myna, Pin Tailed Green Pigeon, Himalayan Pied Kingfisher, Three-Toed kingfisher, Greater Spotted Eagle, White-rumped Vulture, Long-billed Vulture, Black-Bellied Term, etc

This day will be spent taking long hill drives through the picturesque landscape of Arunachal, but that won't be all. Along our way to Dirangzong, we'll take a few pit stops to look for birds - a great travel experience.

Nameri is a scenic sanctuary on the border of the Assam Valley and mountainous

Arunachal Pradesh

Early morning take a boat ride across the Jia Bhoreli river, use the morning for a birding session at Nameri

Later, have breakfast at the resort & proceed towards Arunachal. We will drive to Dirang today (6 to 7-hours drives)

We'll witness the sight of snowbound terrain at the alluring Sela Pass as we stop there looking for your favourite species - it can be cold today.

Early morning birding at Sela Pass and later in evening birding at Sangti Valley

Overnight stay at Mandala

Species:
Beautiful Sibias, Fire-capped Tit, Blue-fronted Robin, Spotted Nutcracker, Blue-capped Rock-Thrush, Ward's Trogon, Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler, Spotted Laughingthrush, Crimson-browed Finch, Large-billed Leaf-Warbler, Ludlow's Fulvetta, Rusty-flanked Treecreeper, Fire-tailed Myzornis, Grey-sided laughing Thrushes, Slender-billed Scimitar Babblers, Red-tailed Minla

We hope you have packed your white gowns because we're taking you to paradise. Yes, Mandala indeed is a birders' paradise and you'll love it!

Full day birding in Mandala. 

Overnight stay.

Species:
Yellow-browed, Black-browed and Rufous-vented Tits, Green-tailed Sunbird, Chestnut-tailed Minla, Black-faced Warbler, Stripe-throated Yuhina, Golden-breasted Fulvettas, Bar-tailed Treecreeper, Rufous-chinned, and Grey-sided Laughingthrush, Scaly-breasted Cupwing, Grey-sided Bush-warbler, Fulvous and Black-throated Parrotbills, Black-throated Thrush, White-collared and Grey-winged Blackbirds, Himalayan Bluetail, Eurasian Nutcracker, Speckled Wood-pigeon, Ward’s Trogon, Temminck’s Tragopan, Wood Snipe, Eurasian Wren, Blanford's Rosefinch, Red crossbill, Gould’s shortwing

Driving along the serpentine roads with mountains on one side and verdant valleys on the other we'll reach Lama Camp where you'll get to live in the lap of nature.

Birding drive to Lama Camp

Evening birding in and around Lama Camp

Overnight at fully serviced camps

The drive from Lama Camp to Bompu will be something you'll remember for a lifetime. You will literally experience being in the middle of nowhere with only a lonely road painted green with thick forests showing you the way.

Morning birding in Lama area

After breakfast, birding drive to Bompu

Rest of the day birding in Bompu area

Another two full days of birding with a visit to Sessni

Sunderview, Bompu & Sessni

Overnight stay at fully serviced camps

Species:
Hill Partridge, Rufous-throated Partridge, Chestnut-breasted Partridge, Blyth’s Tragopan, Kalij Pheasant, Grey Peacock Pheasant, White-browed Piculet, Bay Woodpecker, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Darjeeling Woodpecker, Great Barbet, Golden-throated Barbet, Rufous-necked Hornbill, Common Hoopoe, Red-headed Trogon, Ward’s Trogon, Oriental Cuckoo, Himalayan Swiftlet, Mountain Scops Owl, Collared Owlet, Speckled Wood Pigeon

Another full day of birding

Species:
Ashy Wood Pigeon, Barred Cuckoo Dove, Emerald Dove, Mountain Imperial Pigeon, Oriental Honey-buzzard, Himalayan Griffon, Crested Serpent Eagle, Crested Goshawk, Common Buzzard, Black Eagle, Rufous-bellied Eagle, Blue-naped Pitta, Long-tailed Broadbill, Golden-fronted Leafbird, Orange-bellied Leafbird, Collared Treepie, Spotted Nutcracker, Maroon Oriole, Black-winged Cuckooshrike, Grey-chinned Minivet, Yellow-bellied Fantail, White-throated Fantail, Ashy Drongo, Bronzed Drongo, Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo, Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Another full day of birding

Species:

Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush, Blue Whistling Thrush, Plain-backed Thrush, Long-tailed Thrush, Scaly Thrush, Chestnut Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Lesser Shortwing, Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher, White-gorgeted Flycatcher, Snowy-browed Flycatcher, Slaty-blue Flycatcher, Sapphire Flycatcher, Verditer Flycatcher, Large Niltava, Pale Blue Flycatcher, Pygmy Blue Flycatcher, Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher, Orange-flanked Bush Robin, Golden Bush Robin, White-browed Bush Robin, Blue-fronted Redstart, Black Redstart, White-tailed Robin, Blue-fronted Robin, Purple Cochoa, Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch, White-tailed Nuthatch, etc

Birding drive to Lama Camp for overnight at fully serviced camps

After breakfast, drive to Nameri National Park.
Evening birding in Nameri

Overnight stay

Today is the day we'll visit one of the most unique wildlife hotspots of India - the Kaziranga National Park, the land of India's Big5. We'll spend the day marveling at the incredible wildlife and try to learn from them how to live harmoniously.

Morning birding in Nameri

Later drive to Kaziranga National Park (3 hours)

Overnight stay

Species
Mammals
Indian Rhinoceros, Wild Water Buffalo, Indian Elephant, Royal Bengal Tiger, Indian Boar, Himalayan Mole, Indian Pangolin, Gaur, Barasingha, Sambar Deer, Indian Muntjac, Western Hoolock Gibbon, Indian Hog Deer

Birds
Geese (Lesser White-fronted Goose), and Ducks (Ferruginous Pochard, Baer's pochard), Kingfishers (Blyth's Kingfisher), Herons (White-bellied Heron), Pelicans (Dalmatian Pelican, Spot-billed Pelican), Shanks (Spotted Greenshank) and Terns (Black-bellied Tern), Lesser Adjutant, Greater Adjutant, Black-necked Stork, Asian Openbill), Astern Imperial Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, White-tailed Fishing Eagle, Pallas's Fish Eagle, Grey-headed Fish Eagle, and the Lesser Kestrel

Full day birding in Kaziranga with morning and evening jeep safari

Overnight stay

Species:
Mammals
Capped Langur, Rhesus Macaque, Assam Macaque, Indian Leopard, Sloth Bear, Indian Porcupine, Fishing Cat, Jungle cat, Large Indian Civet, Small Indian civet, Indian Gray Mongoose, Small Indian Mongoose, Bengal Fox, Indian Jackal, Common Otter, Chinese Ferret Badger, Hog Badger, Ganges and Indus river dolphin, Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel, Asiatic Black Bear, Bat etc

Birds
Rare game birds (which were once hunted) include Partridges (Swamp Francolin), Bustards (Bengal Florican) and Pigeons (Pale-capped Pigeon)

Several other important families of birds inhabit Kaziranga, including rare species of Hornbills (Great Indian Hornbill and the Lesser Risk Wreathed Hornbill), Old World Babblers (Jerdon's Babbler, Marsh Babbler) and Weaver Birds (The Common Baya Weaver and the Threatened Finn's Weaver), Thrushes (Hodgson's Bushchat), Old World Warblers (Bristled Grassbird). Other threatened species include the Black-Breasted Parrotbill and Rufous-Vented Prinia

Return to Delhi with tons of happy memories and photographs to flood your social media handles.

After breakfast, drive to Guwahati airport to connect flight back to Delhi in the afternoon

Arrive Delhi in the evening

Transfer to hotel for overnight stay

Transfer to airport to connect flight back to home in the morning

Tour ends with happy notes