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.
This comprehensive 16-day birding and wildlife expedition journeys through the premier biodiversity hotspots of Southern and Central Vietnam, targeting a remarkable selection of regional endemics and rare avian species.
A three-week private journey combining southern and central Vietnam’s wildlife with the country’s landscapes, culture, and cuisine. The program balances focused birding and nature experiences with heritage sites, local communities, and relaxed travel.
This 20-day expedition explores the finest birding hotspots of Vietnam and Cambodia. Search for rare regional endemics, alongside iconic cultural highlights like Angkor.
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.
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..
Orange-necked Partridge, Bar-bellied and Blue-rumped Pitta, Black-and-buff, Pale-headed Woodpecker
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.
Cuc Phuong, Vietnam's oldest national park, protects extensive limestone forest about 135 km south-west of Hanoi. The forest has a distinctive karst character, with mature trees, caves, steep limestone terrain and a rich flora.
Sa Pa and the Fansipan massif provide Vietnam's strongest taste of Sino-Himalayan birdlife. Around 350 species have been recorded in the wider area, including several montane birds that are scarce or absent elsewhere in the country.
Tell us your travel dates, target birds, group size and preferred pace. Wildtour will help design a realistic and rewarding itinerary.