18 Apr 2025 - 28 Apr 2025 (11 days)
INR325,000 - 4 Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Glen Valentine
Tour price (Per person): INR325,000 * USD3,829 * GBP3,023 * EUR3,659 * AUD6,018
Single Supplement: INR34,750 * USD409 * GBP323 * EUR391 * AUD644
Flight costs: INR8,250 * USD97 * GBP77 * EUR93 * AUD153
Can be linked with: India - Northeast: Eaglenest & Beyond 2025
16 Apr 2026 - 26 Apr 2026 (11 days)
INR338,000 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Forrest Rowland
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): INR338,000 * USD3,982 * GBP3,144 * EUR3,805 * AUD6,259
Can be linked with: India - Northeast: Eaglenest & Beyond 2026
These exotic birding adventures take us to many seldom visited and remote destinations in northeast India. We will have the rare opportunity to search for a host of Asia’s most tantalising and desirable species, including the stunning Temminck’s and Blyth’s Tragopans, Ward’s Trogon, exquisite Beautiful Nuthatch, endemic Bugun Liocichla, incredible Grandala, rare and endangered White-winged Duck, Swamp Francolin, dazzling Fire-tailed Myzornis, localised Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush and Collared Treepie – to name just some of the many exciting possibilities! These thrilling tours take us to some of Asia’s best birding sites, where few birders have ever ventured, and we will no doubt encounter many rarely seen species!
We’ll also be searching for a good number of mammals, primarily at Kaziranga National Park, 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, but no other site in Asia can match the vast herds of big mammals to be seen.
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.
Mishmi Wren-Babbler; Marsh, Swamp Grass (rare) & Jerdon’s Babblers; Black-breasted Parrotbill; Rusty-bellied Shortwing; Manipur & Rufous-throated Fulvettas; Fire-tailed Myzornis; Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler; Maroon-backed Accentor; Himalayan Cutia; Beautiful Nuthatch; Blyth's Tragopan; Hill, Chestnut-breasted, White-cheeked & Rufous-throated Partridges; Rufous-necked Hornbill; Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler; Pale-billed Parrotbill; Austen's Brown Hornbill; Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush; Greater Adjutant; Bengal Florican; Collared Treepie.
Ganges River Dolphin; Indian Rhinoceros; Hoolock Gibbon; Barasingha (Swamp Deer) & Hog Deer; Asian Elephant; Asian Buffalo; an outside chance for Bengal Tiger.
montane & lowland forest, bamboo thickets, rivers, woodland, rocky, alpine/heathland habitat
warm to hot in the lowlands and cool to cold in the mountainous. Rain is possible every day.
8 with 1 Rockjumper leader & 1 local leader
Challenging. This is a Mega-style tour designed for the avid lister & serious birder. Not suited for dedicated photographers, inexperienced birders, or anyone with mobility or serious health challenges.
Variable. Comfortable in larger towns, homestays in villages & tents at Eaglenest. This is a very remote part of India, hotel standards are not comparable to other similar sized towns even in India.
Challenging. Many skulking, shy species. Several are low density.
300
amazing scenery and wildlife sanctuaries, incredible forest
Can be decent. No dedicated hides. More challenging in forested environments.
As usual another fantastic journey masterfully organized and enabling us to discover places and birds in the best possible way. Supreme guide, all matters perfect, except the lack of heating in the bus. Chilly India, believe it or not !
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.)
Clayton was friendly, informative and fun.... Very athletic and cheerful. Find him to be a wonderful guide.
We really enjoyed both tours. The leader, Stephan Lorenz, was very helpful and worked hard to make the birding trips a success. We appreciated the local guides on both trips as well. They were all very good at getting the job done and making it all enjoyable and seamless. We always feel we are in good hands when we go on a Rockjumper tour.
This was a great trip. A terrific itinerary and we saw lots of birds and we saw tigers at Ranthambhore and Corbett. Glen and [the local leader] were excellent guides—great spotting skills, and they made sure everyone saw the bird. The logistics worked very well because Glen and [the local leader] were a great team.
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