Day 1: Delhi
Arrival transfer from Airport
to the hotel and overnight at hotel.
Day 2 : Delhi/Dibrugarh/Digboi
After breakfast transfer to airport to take a flight to Dibrugarh. Arrive at Dibrugarh
airport and onwards to Digboi Overnight at CTA Oil Guest House
Day 3:
Digboi
Birding at Digboi Oil Reserve (Permissions need to be arranged
with security supplied from local police station) look for some special species
such as Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush and other woodland birds such as White-cheeked
Partridge, Jerdon's Baza (rare), Grey-bellied Tesia, etc. Also try looking for
White-winged Duck in the marshes within the reserve. Other birds include Pale-headed
Woodpecker, Sultan Tit, White-browed Piculet, Oriental Hobby, etc. overnight at
hotel.
Day 4: Digboi Oil Reserve
Full day birding at Digboi
oil reserve. Overnight at hotel.
Day 5: Digboi to Namdapha Tiger Reserve
(Deban Forest IB)
After breakfast drive to Namdapha. Arrive and check
in at hotel. Pm visit in the park look for Tiger, deers, wild Boar and birds.
Overnight at lodge.
Day 6: Namdapha Birding around Deban at Namdapha
look for Snowy-throated Babbler
White-bellied Heron, Beautiful Nuthatch,
Rufous-necked Hornbill, Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Ibisbill, Green Cochoa, several
species of wren-babblers, 3 species of Tesias, Blyth's Kingfisher, Fulvous Parrotbill,
etc. overnight at lodge.
Day 7: Deban / Hornbill (camp at Hornbill)
Full day birding at around camp Hornbill. Overnight at camp.
Day 8:
Hornbill
Full dau bird watching at Hornbill. Overnight at camp.
Day
9: Hornbill / Deban
After breakfast drive to Deban. Upon arrival mcheck
in at lodge. Pm birding in deban reserve forest. Overnight at lodge.
Day
10: Deban
Full day birding in Deban reserve forest. Overnight at lodge.
Day
11: Deban / Tinsukia Dibru-Saikhowa National Park
After breakfast drive
to Dibru Saikhowa National Park. Upon arrival check in at Jungle Lodge. Pm birding
in the Saikhowa National Park. Overnight at hotel.
Day 12: Dibru Saikhowa
National Park
Birding around Dibru-Saikhowa (walk from Guijan to Kolomy
5km - 4 hours): Black-breasted Parrotbill, Jerdon's Bushchat, Marsh Babbler and
Pale-capped Pigeon. Other birds in the reserve include Black-breasted Thrush,
Hodgson's Redstart, Grey-sided Bush Warbler, Chestnut-capped Babbler, Jerdon's
Babbler, etc.
Day 13: Dibru Saikhowa National Park
Birding
in Dibru - Saikhowa (around Dighaltarang Area - boat needs to be arranged with
help from Forest Dept.
Day 14: Tinsukia to Kaziranga
After breakfast
drive to Kaziranga National Park. Upon arrival check in at lodge. Pm. Birding
around the lodge. Overnight at lodge.
Day 15: Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park is very rich in birdlife and wildlife. Kaziranga National
Park is a highly reputed wildlife protected area. Reputed to be a mini Africa
in the Indian sub-continent, the Park has more than 70% of the world's one-horned
rhino population, 70% of the world population of the Eastern Swamp Deer (Cervus
duvuaceli ranjitsinhii) and 75% of the world's wild Asiatic water buffalo. It
has a significant population of the Asian Elephant.
The Park has more than
483 species of birds, 18 of them are globally threatened species. Because of the
varied habitat-types that the Park comprises of as also of the strict protection
accorded to them birding in Kaziranga is very special. Am. Birding and look for
tiger, one horned Rhino and water buffalo in the Eastern Range is good for water
birds such as Falcated Teal, White-eyed Pochard and Spot-billed pelican (a colony
of c 200 pairs is located in this range). For grassland birds the Western Range
is ideal. The Bengal Florican can be seen during the pm.elephant ride in the Central
Range. The nearby Panbari Reserved Forest is good for primates such as Hoollock
Gibbon and Capped Langur and also woodland birds such as Yellow-vented Warbler,
Great Hornbill, Darknecked Tailorbird, Grey-bellied and Slaty-bellied Tesias.
Some of other interesting birds include Green-backed Heron, Changeable Hawk-Eagle,
Pied and Northern Harriers, Lesser and greater Adjutants, Black-necked Storks,
Grey-headed and Pallas's Fish-eagle (common), Swamp Francolin (common), Spotbilled
Pelican, Finn's Weaver, Slender-billed Babbler (rare), Grey-headed Lapwing, Black-bellied
tern, Black-breasted Thrush, Yellow-naped Woodpecker, etc. overnight at lodge.
Day
16: Kaziranga National Park
AM & PM Game viewing in the park by elephant
or jeep. Overnight at hotel.
Day 17: Kaziranga National Park
AM & PM Game viewing in the park by elephant or jeep. Overnight at hotel.
Day
18: Kaziranga to Nameri National Park
After breakfast drive to Nameri
National Park. Arrive and check in at hotel. Pm bird watching in the park. Park
habitat is diverse more close to Manas National Park. Sighting of wild animals
is difficult but the place has over 350 species of birds. Known to be a good place
to sight the White-winged Wood Duck, pax can view Ibisbill (uncommon), Ruddy Kingfisher,
Wreathed hornbill, Long-billed Ringed Plover, Sultan Tit, and Yellow-bellied and
White-throated Fantails.
Day 19: Nameri National Park
Full day
in park for birding. Overnight at hotel
Day 20: Nameri to Shillong
After breakfast drive to Shillong.upon arrival chreck in at hotel. Pm birding
around the hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day 21: Shillong
Full
day birding at shillong park look for Tawny-breasted Wren Babbler and other northeast
Indian hills state species such as Crested Finchbill, Rustycapped Fulvetta, Striated
Bulbul, etc. overnight at hotel.
Day 22: Shillong/ Mawphlang
Morning excursion to Mawphlang at Cherrapunjee at about 11hrs00 in order to look
for Dark-rumped Swift
Day 23:Shillong to Guwahati
(AM birding
along Old Shillong - Guwahati Road // Visit Ulubari Market to see Greater Adjutant
Stork).overnight at hotel.
Day 24:Guwahati/Delhi
After breakfast
transfer to the airport to take a flight to Delhi. Arrive Delhi late evening and
transfer to the International airport for flight to own country.
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