The long awaited adventure finally took off after a long break. All looking happy and excited! We had arrived one day earlier before our birding tour started. Our very own adventure started the moment we touched down at Danang International Airport. One of our teammates saw that our hotel was nearby, seems to be walkable, hence we all decided to walk there. And yes, we could see our hotel from the airport but the walk there almost drained our energy before the trip started. We settled in, went for dinner, had our first banh mi and called for the night. It's our first day of our trip and the pick up time from our hotel was 530am. We all managed to gather except for one, as usual, skipped the morning session. Our Guide, Quyen, is hosting us again and we were all glad to see him again. The target for this morning was the Langurs. We arrived at the 1st point after a 30mins drive but didn't get to see the Langurs. Then Quyen asked if we wanted to shoot the nesting of the Blue-beard...
We are into Day 7 of our 8 days trip and today, we would be heading to Phang-Nga. We checked out of Krung Ching Homestay & Resort at 6am, and because our next destination was an additional add-on to the itinerary, we had to eat 7-11 breakfast on-the-go. After a long 2hrs journey, we had arrived at a place which I could not find it on Google map. The whole place was surrounded by plantations and our shooting area was in the plantation itself. We had a hike upwards into the plantation grounds, and settled down at a Hide at the top overlooking a view of rubber trees, and with lots of commando mosquitoes buzzing around. Mosquito coils were set up for us, and that saved us alot 😁 We set-up our gears and waited for the changing of shift of the white-morph Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher nesting, incubation period. According to the locals, the shift was changed at every 20~30 mins interval. When we arrived at around 8:30am, the birds had just swapped shift, therefore the next change wou...