Know Before You Go
• Keep your passport with you throughout the tour; it may be needed to buy entrance tickets.
• Meals are not included; please feel free to ask your guide for recommendations.
• Tour guide's name and contact information will be confirmed via WhatsApp or email.
• Your guide will greet you in the airport/train station arrival hall with a GGC pickup sign displaying your name.
Day 1 Pick up from Xishuangbanna Airport or Hotels in Jinghong, Drive to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Birdwatching
Your private guide will be holding GoGrandChina pick-up sign and waiting for you in your hotel lobby (or other appointed meeting place) at the appointed time. You will be transferred to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (approximately 65km) in a comfortable private vehicle. Situated on an island, the garden is surrounded by rivers and mountains that contain a wealth of rare and unusual plants. It is a plot of land about a mile wide formed by a river winding around it on three sides. The Luosuo River isolates the plants and protects them from wild animals. A bridge provides access from the town of Menglun. The garden covers over 11 square kilometers, including an area of 2.5 square kilometers of primary tropical rainforest. It fosters more than 13,000 species of plants in its 35 living collections. In the park, there are 37 special sections for plant growth, including the shade-growing plant section, the palm plant section, the water plant section and the banyan section, among others. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is an ideal location to venture for excellent birding, for it is home to 267 species of birds. Birdwacthing at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden after check into hotel located inside the botanical garden.
Meals Included: No meals
Hotel: Royal Water Lily Hotel inside Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Day 2 Birdwatching at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Transfer to Xishuangbanna Airport or Hotels in Jinghong
Birdwacthing at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in the morning. Here is a list of birds you may see: Red Junglefowl, Yellow-legged Buttonquail, Specked Piculet, White-browed Piculet, Rufous Woodpecker, Great Barbet, Blue-throated Barbet, Coppersmith Barbet, Eurasion Hoopoe, Orange-breasted Trogon, Indian Roller, Dollarbird, Blyth's Kingfisher, Common Fingfisher, Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, White-throated Kingfisher, Black-capped Kingfisher, Blue-beared Bee-eater, Little Greeen Bee-eater, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, Indian Cuckoo, Banded Bay Cuckoo, Plaintive Cuckoo, Asian Emeral Cuckoo, Violet Cuckoo, Dragon Cuckoo, Asian Koel, Green-billed Malkoha, Greater Coucal, Lesser Coucal, Himalayan Swiftlet, Asian Palm Swift, House Swift, Crested Treeswift, Barn Owl, Mountain Scops Owl, Collared Scops Owl, Brown Wood Owl, Barred Owlet, Brown Hawk Owl, Speckled Wood Pigeon, Oriental Turtle Dove, Spotted Dove, Red Collared Dove, Emeral Dove, Pompadour Green Pigeon, Mountain Imperial Pigeon, White-breasted Waterhen, Common Moorhen, Eurasian Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Black-winged Stilt, River Lapwing, Grey-headed Lapwing, Black Baza, Oriental Honey-buzzard, Crested Serpent Eagle, Northern Harrier, Crested Goshawk, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Besra, Common Buzzard, Pied Falconet, Common kestrel, Little Grebe, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Large Egret, Cattle Egret, Pond Heron, Little Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Yellow Bittern, Cinnamon Bittern, Blue-naped Pitta, Hooded Pitta, Blue-winged Piptta, Silver-breasted Broadbill, Long-tailed Broadbill, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Blue-winged Leafbird, Orange-bellied leafbird, Brown Shrike, Burmese Shrike. Transfer to Xishuangbanna airport or hotels in Jinghong.
Meals Included: Breakfast at hotel
Friendly Tips
• You may fly from Xishuangbanna to Kunming
• Please feel free to contact your GGC service staff if you want to book discount flight & train tickets.
