Besra Walong, a remote frontier town in Arunachal Pradesh and an eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, is one of India’s least explored birding destinations. It offers a range of habitats, from river valleys and bamboo patches to forest edges, scrub slopes, and dense hill forests. Its location near the Indo-Chinese biogeographic zone gives Walong a distinctive avifauna shaped by Himalayan, Indo-Chinese, and Southeast Asian influences. For birdwatchers, that means the chance

A 3-day Kaziranga National Park safari in Assam (India) involving wildlife watching (rhinos, elephants, wild buffalo, a rare golden tiger, otters, reptiles), and superb birding. Golden tiger After a rewarding trip to Manas National Park , we drove nearly 8 hours to reach Kaziranga National Park. Near the park, we spotted a rhinoceros by the roadside, grazing, unaffected by the passing traffic. Despite this being my third visit, I found Kaziranga different. The park continues

A birdwatching trip in the India–Bhutan border, featuring Mandarin duck, elephants, rhinoceros, and rich grassland birdlife, especially the Bengal florican. Asian elephants Imagine standing in a forest where the wilderness stretches across two countries, yet nothing in the landscape demarcates a border. Manas National Park, in Assam, India, merges seamlessly into Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park, together forming one of Asia’s most remarkable transboundary wilderness landsc