Bird Watching Tours in India

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Code : ITT-15
Duration : 05 Night / 06 Days
Destination Coverd :Delhi - Pangot (Nainital) - Corbett National Park
Day - 01 : Delhi
As you land at Delhi's airport, you will find our assistant waiting for you. He will escort you and take you the hotel that you have mentioned us to book. Relax in the hotel room and you will be served with lunch. You can choose between Indian, Chinese, Italian and Inter-Continental. After lunch, either you can rest in the hotel room or can take a small tour to Delhi; depending upon the location of your hotel. If it is in Central Delhi, you can visit, eat and shop at Connaught Place, visit Jantar Mantar which is an astronomical observatory and can spend evening leisurely, at India Gate. If your hotel is located in South Delhi, we can take you for a sightseeing tour to Qutab Minar, Humayun's Tomb and Lotus Temple, which are some of the marvelous and grand edifices of Delhi. For Old Delhi visitors, there can be nothing better than a walking tour around Chandani Chowk which is old town with rusty buildings and century old shops. After this sightseeing tour, come back to hotel by eight in the evening and have dinner. Pack your luggage as we would be moving to Pangot, next morning. Make an overnight stay at the hotel.

Day - 02 :Aim Pangot (Nainital)
We would give you a wakeup call at around six in the morning. Have morning tea or coffee with light refreshments and leave for Pangot at around seven. Pangot is about 400km from Delhi. It takes 7-8 hours to reach here. The journey takes you through spectacular mountain ranges and delightful “Lake City” at Kumaon Hills.Light packed refreshments and water will be provided to you for the journey. Upon your arrival at Pangot, we would transfer you to a wildlife cottage that we have booked for you. Have lunch here and rest for some time. After an hour, we would take you for a birding tour with a trained guide to spot some of the most beautiful birds here. Stop in the way and you can see birds like: blue whistling thrush, red-billed blue magpie, blue-capped redstart, rusty-tailed flycatcher, grey-backed shrike, yellow-breasted green finch etc. Return from the birding expedition and freshen up yourself at the cottage. Now, you can have dinner in the open sky and enjoy bonfire. Sleep early tonight for we would be getting up early next day.

Day - 03 : Birding at Pangot
Morning is the best time for bird viewing when birds come out of their little nests to take first breath of the fresh air and welcome a new day with their euphoneious orchestra. Get up as early as six in the morning and get set for a morning trail around the area with our guide who will tell you about different birds, their characteristics and habitat. Although you may not be able to capture good photographs due to lack of proper light but can wait for the sun rise to entrap some of the majestic birds in your camera.

After a good stroll around, come back to the cottage to take a shower and have breakfast. You must also pack your bags and keep them safe inside our coach so that we are able to leave for Corbett as early as possible. Once you close your plate, carry your binoculars and head for birding with our guide who will take you deepest cores to have a view of very interesting avian life. Birds at Pangot include: Baggar, Timla Pani, Cheena Peak & Nainital. One can see slaty-headed & red-breasted parakeet, grey bushchat, long-tailed & grey-backed shrike, common kestrel, besra, chestnut-bellied rock thrush etc. Streaked laughing thrush is a common garden bird here. Your lunch will be served to you outside the cottage.

Leave for Corbett at around six in the evening. Corbett is two hours drive from Pangot. As you reach Corbett, we will transfer you to a wildlife resort that we have booked on your request. You can freshen up and have lunch. Sleeping early would be benificial as you can start early next day.

Day - 04 : Birding at Corbett:
Get up early in the morning and leave for the woods. Our guide will take you for a morning stroll around the park to have a view of rarest species of avi-fauna. After a short conversation with the woods, come back for a wash out of all dirt that you have carried along with you and have a healthy breakfast. Our guide will now take you lower jungle tracks along Ramganga River which is treasure trove of birds like lapwings, waders, mergansers and other waterfow. After a meeting with these water birds, you may have a view of birds like:long-tailed nightjar, jungle owlet, spot-bellied owl, common stonechat, black francolin, purple and crimson sunbird, golden-fronted & orange-bellied leafbird, black-shouldered kite, hen harrier, changeable hawk-eagle, chestnut-tailed starling etc in the grasslands. We would serve with lunch in between your journey of the woods so as to make you travel undisturbed. After day's bird sighting activity, we would be taking you back to cottage to serve you with hot and delicious dinner and rest for the next day's safari tour to Corbett.

Day - 05 : Birdwatching at Corbett
We would give you a wake up call at around six, early in the morning. Have tea or coffee and move for bird watching expedition with our guide, on an elephant's back. There is a famous watchtower from where you can view exquisite bird life of the jungle. Spend hours spotting some of the rarest species of birds. Come back for breakfast and now you can drive on jeeps to spot tigers and wild beasts. Along this journey, you can watch some of intersting birds here. So me of the best birding areas of Dhikala are Sambhar Road and Khinanauli. One can expect to see great slaty woodpecker, great hornbill, puff-throated babbler, white-rumped shama, pallas's fish eagle etc. Come back to the cottage in the evening, have dinner and make overnight stay. If you are not tired, we can also arrange a bonfire and barbecue for you, if you mention it to our assistant. It was the last day in the Corbett, so spend the last night out in open, sharing your adventures and encounters in the jungle and feel good about the trip. Ask all kinds of questions about the park, from our guide and listen to hair raising and spine tingling experiences that he tell you.

Day - 06 : Back to Delhi
After days of wild expeditions, we would move back to Delhi for onward journey. As you get up ealry in the morning, we would have breakfast and move back to Delhi at around nine in the morning. You will be served with food in the mid way. It will take around six hours to reach Delhi. Upon arriving at Delhi, we would check in a hotel that you have mentioned us to book for you. Rest for the day here and we would drop you at the airport for onward journey. If you have your flight, the next day, you can make an overnight stay at the hotel.