20-day Strenuous Birding Cambodia

20-day Strenuous Birding Cambodia

This 20-day trip covers most of our current birdwatching sites in Cambodia! By opting this package, you could contribute more to conservation projects we are implementing together with the Ministry of Environment and our local community partners across landscapes. This itinerary covers around 400+ species of the total 602 species lead by a professional senior guide who has full experience in leading birdwatching tours across the country and Southeast Asia.

The highlight iconic species are: Milky Stork, Greater and Lesser Adjutants, Grey-headed fish-eagle, Painted Stork, Black-necked Stork, Sarus Crane, Manchurian Reed-Warbler, Bar-bellied Pitta, Oriental Bay-Owl, Brown Prinia, Giant Ibis, White-shouldered Ibis, Great-slaty Woodpecker, White-bellied Woodpecker, Black-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, Spotted Wood-Owl, Brown Wood-Owl, Greater and Lesser Yellownapes, Greater and Common Flamebacks, Savanna Nightjar, Great-eared Nightjar, Indian Nightjar, Black Stork, White-winged Duck, Green Peafowl, Silver Broadbill, Siamese Fireback, Scaly-breasted Partridge, Bar-backed Partridge, Blue Pitta, 3 species of resident vultures, Mekong Wagtail, Asian Golden Weaver, Maroon Oriole, Grey-faced Tit-Babbler, Red-vented Barbet, Rufous Woodpecker, Pale-capped Pigeon, Cambodian Tailorbird, Chestnut-headed Partridge and many other not-mentioned species. Besides birds you may also experience Angkorian temples of Khmer arts and an unrecorded life of people on the floating villages in Tonle Sap – the biggest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and the greatest waterbird breeding colony in Asia, designated as a Ramsar site in 2015 after a recognition by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve of Tonle Sap.

Option #1 flight to Siem Reap

Day 1: Arrival to Siem Reap, Cambodia

Day 2: Full day birding at Angkor complex

Day 3: Boat trip to Prek Toal Bird Colony, overnight at Changkran Roy

Day 4: AM birding to Changkran Roy, PM back to Siem Reap

Day 5: AM birding at Florican Grassland, PM at Tmatboey

Day 6: Full day birding at Tmatboey

Day 7: AM birding at Tmatbeoy, PM birding at Vulture Restaurant

Day 8: Full day birding at Boeng Toal Vulture Restaurant

Day 9: AM birding at Boeng Toal, PM birding at Kratie – Mekong

Day 10:  AM Kratie ; PM birding at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary (KSWS)

Day 11: Full day birding at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Day 12: Full day birding at Dak Dam Highland

Day 13: Morning KSWS; PM Cambodian Tailorbird; traveling to Kampot

Day 14: AM birding at Saltpan; PM driving up Bokor National Park

Day 15: Full day birding at Bokor National Park

Day 16: Morning birding at Anlung Pring; then transfer to Udong Mean Chey Town

Day 17: Heading to Mt. Aural and ready to hike (strenuous day ⚠)

Day 18: Full day birding in Mt. Aural

Day 19: Full day birding in Mt. Aural

Day 20: Hiking down and transfer to Phnom Penh airport.

Option #2 flight to Phnom Penh

Day 1: Arrival to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and transfer to Udong Meanchey Town

Day 2: Heading to the Grassbird site; overnight at Pursat

Day 3: Heading to Mt. Aural and ready to hike (strenuous day ⚠)

Day 4: Full day birding in Mt. Aural

Day 5: Full day birding in Mt. Aural

Day 6: Hiking down and head towards Anlung Pring, overnight at Kampot

Day 7: AM birding at Saltpan; PM driving up Bokor National Park

Day 8: Full day birding at Bokor National Park

Day 9: AM birding at Bokor; PM Cambodian Tailorbird before driving to KSWS

Day 10: Full day birding at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary (KSWS)

Day 11: Full day birding at Dak Dam Highland

Day 12: AM birding at KSWS on the way before transferring to Kratie – Mekong

Day 13: AM Kratie; PM birding at Boeng Toal Vulture Restaurant

Day 14: Full day birding at Boeng Toal Vulture Restaurant

Day 15: AM birding at Boeng Toal; PM transfer to Tmatboey

Day 16: Full day birding at Tmatboey

Day 17: AM birding at Tmatboey; PM birding at Florican Grassland – overnight in Siem Reap town.

Day 18: Boat trip to Prek Toal Bird Colony, overnight at Changkran Roy

Day 19: AM birding to Changkran Roy, PM back to Siem Reap

Day 20: AM birdwatching at Angkor complex before transfer to Siem Reap International Airport

*REMARK

Accommodation in Siem Reap/Kratie/Mondulkiri/Kampot are in comfortable air-con rooms (two single beds each room). In Tmatboey, the accommodation is basic with solar power. In Okoki and Boeng Toal, the accommodations are in safari style tented camp.

Single supplement is not valid for Tmatboey/OKoki/BoengToal, however, we could arrange it with no extra charge when there is a room available.