Vietnam’s expert-led birding and wildlife tours are designed by Vietnamese ornithologists and field naturalists. Since 2005, Wildtour has created specialist birding, wildlife, photography and conservation-focused journeys across Vietnam and Indochina.
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Wildtour is designed for travellers who care about birds, habitats and meaningful field experiences. Our work combines tourism, biodiversity research and conservation action.
Guided by Vietnamese birders and naturalists with deep field experience.
Routes designed around target species, seasons, habitats and travel flow.
Trips connect visitors with real conservation stories and local landscapes.
Experienced planning across forests, wetlands, coasts and remote areas.
Start with a classic Vietnam birding route, add a short extension, or request a private custom itinerary based on your target species.
Short on time? Wildtour can arrange a full-day or morning birding trip from Ho Chi Minh City, selecting the most productive nearby habitat according to season, tide, weather and your target species.
Go Cong coast is one of the most important sites for shorebirding in Vietnam. The most notable species there is the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper, which has wintered here every year since 2011.
A four-day birding and photography program in the montane evergreen forests around Mang Den, with Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush as a priority target alongside pittas, nuthatches, barbets, laughingthrushes and mixed-species forest flocks.
Explore Vietnam’s top three Endemic Bird Areas across 14 days, from the lowland forest to the montane plateau. Priority targets include Vietnamese endemics, Indochinese specialties, and sought-after pittas and laughingthrushes.
Explore West Papua through modular birding programs focused on New Guinea’s birds-of-paradise, bowerbirds, and regional specialties around Waigeo, Sorong, Jayapura, and Manokwari. Modules can be combined according to time and target species.
This tour is designed for those who have been birding in Vietnam and Southeast Asia once or several times but missed some key/endemic species or have not visited the sites for such targets.
Vietnam offers a rare combination of lowland forests, montane plateaus, coastal mudflats, wetlands, limestone karst and northern mountains.
Can Gio is the most accessible coastal birding area from Ho Chi Minh City and provides a useful introduction to southern Vietnam's mangroves, salt pans and intertidal birdlife. For specialist birders, the greatest value lies not in the planted mangrove...
Cat Tien National Park is one of Vietnam's premier lowland forest birding destinations and an essential stop on southern Vietnam itineraries. Its mosaic of evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, bamboo, wetlands, flooded forest and grassland supports more..
Bach Ma National Park rises from lowland forest near the central Vietnamese coast to montane evergreen forest above 1,200 m, creating a strong elevational gradient within a compact area. This variety of habitat supports a rich forest avifauna and ...
Yok Don is the second largest national park in Vietnam, it holds a forest dominated by Dipterocarpaceae which is open in dry searon or called deciduous forest, the ecosystem that is almost as productive as the African savanna.
Lo Xo Pass lies along the Ho Chi Minh Road between Da Nang and Kon Tum, close to the Lao border and the forests of the Kon Tum Plateau. The road passes through a mosaic of primary evergreen forest, secondary growth and scrub, giving birders access to...
Tam Dao National Park is a convenient montane birding site close to Hanoi, with lowland evergreen forest on the lower slopes and cooler montane forest at higher elevations. Its accessibility makes it a useful first or final stop on a northern Vietnam bird
Tell us your travel dates, target birds, group size and preferred pace. Wildtour will help design a realistic and rewarding itinerary.