Explore Yunnan’s Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve on a photographer-friendly birding tour in Baihualing. Utilizing local hides, comfortably capture close-up images of over 70 Sino-Himalayan specialties, including pheasants, Laughingthrushes, babblers
Located in Baihualing, Baoshan city (Yunan province), Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve (GNNR) covers an altitude ranging from 700 to 3,916 meters asl, is home to more than 500 bird species. GNNR is a fascinating destination for birding nowadays, especially for bird-photographers, where local people have built hundreds of feeders and blinds to attract birds for tourists as a part of ecotourism programe. Within a week or so here, you might shoot over 70 species of Sino-Himalayan birds in close ranges, very “clear and sharp” pictures including many sought after species such as Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler, Mountain Bamboo Partridge, Mrs. Hume’s Pheasant, Moustached Laughingthrush, Blue-winged Laughingtrush.
Getting Baihualing is quite straight forward, from Kunming fly to Baoshan then our local operator will pick up you at the airport. We will then stay at a comfortable hotel in Baihualing, every day we have breakfast at hotel then visit one or two hides, sit there to photograph, have box lunch in the hide. REALLY EASY! like sample plan below, we will do fairly flexible depending on the presence of birds on updating from local people daily.
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Tour price: USD 1,600/pax; Single supplement USD 180.
Maximum size: 8 participants plus 1 tour leader
Tour leader: Nguyen Van Thang or Nguyen Hoai Bao (TBA) & local guide
The cost is including accommodation, meals, hide-fee, all ground transportation. Not include airfares but we will arrange pick up at Baoshan airport at any time you arrive.
Please contact us for birdlist and possible species list at each hide
Tentative programe
Pick-up from Baoshan Airport, drive to our hotel at Baihualing for afternoon birding, possibly at a hide nearby.
Night in a Baihualing hotel from now to the end of the tour
Breakfast at 7 AM and drive to hide 4 after breakfast. We'll have box lunch at noon at the hide, and we'll get back from the hide to the hotel at 5:30 PM.
Target birds: Scarlet Finch, Golden Babbler, and other birds totaling over 20 species.
Another "late" breakfast at 7 AM, and drive to hide 8 after breakfast. Box lunch at hide 8, shift to hide 27 after lunch. Get back from the hide to the hotel at 5:30 PM. Target birds: Scaly-breasted Wren Babbler, Chestnut-headed Tesia, White-browed Shortwing, Rufous-throated Partridge, and perhaps 25 other bird species.
Have breakfast at 7 AM, drive to hide 32 after breakfast. We'll have a box lunch at hide 32 and get back from the hide to the hotel at 5:30 PM.
7 AM breakfast, ride to hide 3 after breakfast, have box lunch at hide 3, shift to hide Malu if we see our target bird, the Hill Partridge, before noon. We'll get back from the hide to the hotel at 5:30 PM. Other target birds: Back-faced Warbler, Maroon-backed Accentor, and other birds totaling about 40 species (mostly in hide Malu).
Yet another breakfast at 7 AM, get a ride to hide 10 after breakfast, have box lunch at hide 10. Get back from the hide to the hotel at 5:30 PM.
Target birds: Grey Treepie, Moustached Laughingthrush, and another 20 bird species.
Have breakfast and do some early-morning birding before transfer to Baoshan Airport for your departing flight.
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