Birding at Dalat on a budget (1 Viewer)

[Pash44]

Hi Alphan

Researching a trip to Vietnam next March - can you give me details of the guide you mentioned at $50 per person for 2 days and which area was that covering? Was the guide one you would recommend?

Any other info on local guides you can recommend would be appreciated

Thanks Pash

 

[alphan]

A better guide would be the park guide from Cat Tien. He works as park guide and you can only book him from park hq. He also do freelance guiding to Dalat and a few other birding spots but you have to bring him from Cat Tien and cover all his daily expenses and his return to Cat Tien after your trip. Many birding tour companies also use him. He will be fully booked out during peak season. The other guides charges more but are not that experienced.

 

[dalat]

Ta Nung update.

I've been back now after many years. The place has now been fully transformed in one of those Dalat kitsch parks, where tourists take selfies in front of flowery heart shaped installations etc. Quite a horror compared to the splendid piece of nature it used to be.

But then, the birds are still there. I've seen the Crocias, Slaty-backed Forktail, Indochinese Green Magpie and plenty else (but the Orange-breasted Laughingthrush is gone here). People start to arrive in masses only from 9-10 am or so, when birding slows down anyway. So from 10, you can sit down with a coffee and switch to people watching.

 

[William John Kennedy]

Dalat - recent information!

Alphan,

I wonder how your recent trip went to Dalat? I am going there for 4 days in mid-June 2019 and with limited time and I want to maximize my chances of getting the endemics. Any tips would be appreciated,

John Kennedy

 

[Dustin birder]

Da Lat Plateau - Recent update

Hi Alphan,

You can refer to this website "Vietbirdtours.com" to update the latest information about Birdwatching in Da Lat Plateau

See the Map of all the best birding places of Vietnam 2022.

Best wishes,

 

[Dustin birder]

Dalat - recent information!

Alphan,

I wonder how your recent trip went to Dalat? I am going there for 4 days in mid-June 2019 and with limited time and I want to maximize my chances of getting the endemics. Any tips would be appreciated,

John Kennedy

Hi John Kennedy,

Please check this WEBSITE to planning your Birding Trip!

Best Wishes,
Dustin

 

[Saifi]

Hello everybody..i'm new bird photographer..i run across this old forum, planning to visit Da Lat for birding on March/April 2025.Anybody can guide me or recommend me a guide who can assist me in Da Lat?? Thank you in advance , really appriciate your help..

 

[dalat]

If you cover my flight costs, I will happily guide you

Otherwise, the most reputable providers of guiding services in Vietnam are:

• Vietnam Birding
• Birding Vietnam - Wildtour Co., LTD - Homepage
• Vietnam Pitta Tours (more for the north)

There are also individual guides, who may be a little cheaper, you need to google or check some trip reports for them. I don't think there are guides resident in Da Lat.

 

[Saifi]

If you cover my flight costs, I will happily guide you

Otherwise, the most reputable providers of guiding services in Vietnam are:

• Vietnam Birding
• Birding Vietnam - Wildtour Co., LTD - Homepage
• Vietnam Pitta Tours (more for the north)

There are also individual guides, who may be a little cheaper, you need to google or check some trip reports for them. I don't think there are guides resident in Da Lat.

Thank you for your reply sir..by the way how much is your flight ticket sir?? are you living in Vietnam?? or other contry?

 

[dalat]

In Switzerland, so I don't think that would be very economic for you

 

[alphan]

If you cover my flight costs, I will happily guide you

Otherwise, the most reputable providers of guiding services in Vietnam are:

• Vietnam Birding
• Birding Vietnam - Wildtour Co., LTD - Homepage
• Vietnam Pitta Tours (more for the north)

There are also individual guides, who may be a little cheaper, you need to google or check some trip reports for them. I don't think there are guides resident in Da Lat.

I heard there is a park staff of Bidoup running his private guiding business, partnering another guide in Cat Tien. This group had set up quite a number of private hides in various National Parks.