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 5-day tour features a high-altitude cable car ascent to Fansipan for summit camping and target birding, seeking rare White-throated and Pale-throated Wren-babblers alongside diverse Himalayan specialties.
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.
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.
The Mekong Delta supports an exceptional mosaic of freshwater wetlands, seasonally flooded grasslands, cajuput forest, rice landscapes and coastal mudflats. It is especially important for waterbirds and migratory shorebirds, with key areas including Tram
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..
The Da Lat Plateau is one of Vietnam's most important endemic-bird regions and a cornerstone of almost every serious birding itinerary in the country. High-elevation pine forest, montane evergreen forest, valleys and forest edge around Da Lat.
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.
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
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.