India - Assam Extension (Small Group) 2025

17 Feb 2025 - 22 Feb 2025 (6 days)

INR173,500 - 2 Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Erik Forsyth

Tour price (Per person): INR173,500 * USD2,065 * GBP1,574 * EUR1,880 * AUD3,027

Single Supplement: INR21,500 * USD256 * GBP195 * EUR233 * AUD375

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Flight costs (Linked Tour): INR21,500 * USD256 * GBP195 * EUR233 * AUD375

India - Assam Extension (Small Group) 2026

22 Jan 2026 - 28 Jan 2026 (7 days)

INR195,000 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Glen Valentine

Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*

Tour price (Per person): INR195,000 * USD2,321 * GBP1,769 * EUR2,113 * AUD3,402

Can be linked with: India - Northern: Birds & Tigers (Small Group) 2026

Nestled in north-eastern India in the formerly independent Assam, Kaziranga National Park is one of the most spectacular wildernesses in all of Asia. This area gains its fame as one of the last places on earth where the prehistoric Indian Rhinoceros can be found. In fact, game abounds in the watery meadows that make Kaziranga so aesthetically pleasing – no other site in Asia can match the vast herds of big mammals that occur here! We’ll search for Asian Elephant, Swamp Francolin, Pied Falconet and a plethora of other exciting birds and mammals that occur abundantly in this biologically diverse part of the natural world. To boot, we will also spend time exploring the riches of Manas National Park. This park boasts extensive grasslands and broad-leaved forests near the Bhutanese border, home to the endangered Bengal Florican, tricky Grey-lored Broadbill and an abundance of mammals.

This tour is not available to nationals (and other nationals having their origin in these countries) of China, Pakistan or Afghanistan due to Restricted Area Permit requirements to enter Arunachal Pradesh and/or Assam.

Top Birds

Bengal Florican; Greater Adjutant; Grey-lored Broadbill; Swamp Francolin; Blossom-headed Parakeet; Chestnut-capped Babbler; Rosy Minivet; Pallas's & Grey-headed Fish Eagles; Greater & Indian Spotted Eagles; Pied Harrier; Blue-bearded Bee-eater; Brown Fish Owl; Great & Wreathed Hornbills; Small Pratincole; Great Stone-curlew; Sand Lark.

Top Mammals

Indian Rhinoceros; Hoolock Gibbon; Golden Langur; Barasingha (Swamp Deer) & Hog Deer; Asian Elephant; Asian Buffalo; an outside chance for Bengal Tiger.

Habitats Covered

Mixed broad-leaved woodland, pastures, wetlands, rivers

Expected Climate

Hot and tropical, some rain could be expected

Max Group Size

6 with 1 Rockjumper leader

Tour Pace & Walking

Moderate to undemanding. Suitable for all birding / wildlife interest levels. Some long drives.

Accommodation

Comfortable hotels and simple eco-camp

Ease of Birding

Undemanding. Most species provide good visuals in open conditions. Some forest edge, but true forest birding is limited.

Number of Species Expected

230 - 260

Other Attractions

Assam mega-fauna

Photographic Opportunities

Good to excellent. From vehicle & in lodge gardens.

What our clients say about us

Nigel Redman
MC, India 2023

This was the first group birding tour Ive ever taken (meaning, more than myself and either one or two other persons). Rockjumper and Nigel Redman made it a very pleasurable experience, with wonderful birds, beautiful landscapes, and good flexibility and adaptability to the various challenges and obstacles thrown our way on the trip. I heartily recommend both this tour and Nigel Redman as a tour leader! I would happily go on any tour for which Nigel was the leader; his knowledge of ornithology, history, and birding folklore is encycylopedic, and his easy humor and casual nature made for happy hours in our vehicles or over dinner tables (this, in contrast to the group next to us in some of the dining halls, where hardly a word was spoken by any tour member when the trip leader was going through the days list; that was a dictatorship; Nigels tour was a democracy in many ways.)

David Hoddinott
LB - India 2019

To David Hoddinott with many thanks. In my book, you are still the best guide I’ve ever birded with. Please give my regards to the office team. I am very proud to be part of the Rockjumper Family.

Glen Valentine
DH - India 2024

We had a great tour. It was smaller even than usual, as two of the participants departed after two days due to illness. Glen, was as always his uber-keen birder, cheerful self. His magic pulled out quite a few surprising sightings.

Peter Kaestner
JR, India 2020

This trip was great! We were told the trip should generate about 250 bird species and our total was very close. Peter was excellent at finding birds, leading us and keeping a positive group atmosphere. The local guides also were competent and helpful. Accommodations are not an important aspect of a trip to me but the ones we stayed at were excellent, as were the meals. The trip was an excellent introduction to India for me tho I was happy to have it very much concentrate on birding.

Stephan Lorenz
LC & PD, Northern India 2017

We had a wonderful trip with Rich Lindie and Stephan Lorenz, and we would certainly be happy to travel with either of them again. They were both excellent with the birds, had a great sense of humour, and were helpful and patient when individuals required extra assistance. In addition to the birding, we enjoyed a long list of mammals sighted in the various national parks. The accommodations and meals were also very good.

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