Tour Price (Per person): USD5,900 (GBP4,522 * EUR5,207)
Pricing notes : Estimate based on a minimum group size of 6 guests. Please contact our Tailor-made team on tailormade@rockjumper.com
We are not currently offering tours to Myanmar due to the ongoing security situation. Until conditions improve and safe, reliable travel is possible, the destination remains off our schedule. (01/01/2026)
Myanmar (Burma), saddled between Thailand and India, remains a poorly known birding destination, partly due to the difficulty in obtaining necessary permits for visiting the more interesting birding localities. However, with the help of our local operator, we have obtained permission to visit some of these seldom-visited hotspots, affording us the fantastic opportunity to bird in some of the planet’s least explored birding localities! To the north of Yangon (Rangoon) lie the Irrawaddy plains, holding not only important populations of declining waterbirds, but also supporting no less than four endemic species (the striking Hooded Treepie, Jerdon’s Minivet, White-throated Babbler and Burmese Bush Lark), which are confined to the dry forest and thorn scrub characteristic of this endemic-rich area. A good proportion of our time will be spent at the southern end of the eastern mountains known as the Chin Hills, in the vicinity of Mount Victoria. These mountains form part of the Eastern Himalayas, another endemic-rich bird region that also sustains several species only seen by a handful of intrepid birders during the past 40 years. These include White-browed Nuthatch, Mount Victoria Babax, Burmese Bushtit, Black-bibbed Tit and Chin Hills Wren-Babbler, among many others. Our final destinations will be in the southern Shan State, situated in the mountains of central Burma. Here we will explore the broad-leaved forests around Kalaw for Burmese Yuhina, another range-restricted species, and a good selection of other hill forest birds. Lastly, we will visit Inle Lake to search for the highly localised Jerdon’s Bush Chat and near-endemic Collared Myna, amongst a wealth of interesting wetland species.
This tour is made available through our Tailor-made tours department. To explore this offering further for pricing, precise day to day itinerary, inclusions & exclusions, or to tailor the tour to your personal requirements, please contact our Tailor-made team on tailormade@rockjumper.com
Mrs. Hume’s Pheasant, White-browed Nuthatch, Black-bibbed Tit, Chin Hills Wren-Babbler, Jerdon’s Bush Chat, Collared Myna, Burmese Yuhina, Burmese Bush Lark, White-throated Babbler, Hooded Treepie, Jerdon’s Minivet, Spectacled Barwing, Red-faced Liochicla, Silver-eared Laughingthrush, Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler, Black-throated and Spot-breasted Parrotbill, Steak-throated Barwing, Brown-capped, Striped, Assam and White-browed Laughingthrush, Pale-capped Pigeon, Himalayan Cutia, Black-headed Shrike-Babbler, Pale-headed Woodpecker, Grey-headed Parakeet, Himalayan Flameback, White-rumped Falcon, Fire-tailed Sunbird, Burmese Bushtit, Mount Victoria Babax, Hodgson's Frogmouth & Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker
lowland, montane and deciduous forests, lakes, mountains, bamboo, dry acacia and euphorbia savanna
mostly cool and moderate, with some colder mornings and high altitude birding
8 with 1 Tour Leader
fairly easy to moderate
mostly basic but comfortable
generally undemanding with some tricky forest species
Shwedagon Pagoda, unbelievable temples
good
I was very pleased with the birding. I saw all 29 endemics and a total of 42 life birds. The leaders are great at finding, luring in and identifying birds. I appreciated that the focus was very much on the birding. The food and accommodations were excellent and appropriate. I wonder if we should have spent our last night near the coast but am not sure how that would have affected our birding success.
This was a great tour and exceeded all my very high expectations. Having both Glen and Dušan as leaders was like having two olympians on your high school basketball team. As usual, the vehicles were too small for me, but Glen kindly allowed me to ride in the seat with the most legroom when possible. I have subsequently found out that I am definitely an outlier as far as client size is concerned. The tour was well planned, the schedule and guides flexible enough to work around complications, and the logistics aside from a glitch picking us up at the airport well executed.
Stu is a personable, helpful, and organized guide and was a pleasure to travel with. He was ready to help not only with finding and identifying birds, but also with little problems that popped up during our trip, as they so often do. Our local guide was likewise consistently friendly and helpful. My main concern is that on this trip, as on past Rockjumper trips, there doesn't seem to be any effort to vet the physical ability of potential group members, and as a result those of us who are prepared for the experience are held back by those who are physically not ready for it. I know that trips are rated on the website in regards to the level of exertion required, but this does not seem to help -- I have been on multiple tours with people who are not physically capable of maintaining a steady level of exertion while birding. This is not fair to those of us who are.
What a great experience! Everything was as you told us in the pre-departure literature, so we were well-prepared. Rob was an excellent tour leader. His vast experience in conservation, core knowledge of birds and bird behavior, and his enthusiasm was generously shared with the group. He modeled proper trail behavior and made sure that everyone “saw the bird”. The local guides were top-notch and took good care of the group. I also learned so much from the better birders in the group. Highly recommended!
The trip was run superbly from start to finish. The logistics, despite some difficulties imposed by weather conditions and countrywide fuel shortages, were impeccable and I thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Stephan did a superb job in ensuring that we all saw as many of the species as possible. He is an accomplished guide and I enjoy traveling with him.
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