| Package Type |
WPA Bespoke limited for vets/zoos with CPD hours Contact: Rosey Northcote-Smith: +44 7768 333589 rosey@pheasant.org.uk for booking form |
| Duration | Eleven nights and Twelve days |
| Package Cost/pax. |
£1950 (Single supplement £260 extra charge 2025, £280 2026 ) |
| Activities | Bird watching with CPD participatory work with anti-poaching rangers presentations on breeding programmes and other conservation issues and lectures. |
| Vehicle types | Aeroplane, Toyota Hiace/Coaster and Higer Bus. |
| Maximum altitude | 2100m, unless the hike is extended |
| Maximum packs | 25 kg soft bag on internal flight extra luggage can be left in Kathmandu. |
| Included |
Food ( Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner), Beverage (only mineral water), Accommodation, Transportation, permits (ACA and CNP) |
You will be picked up from the International Airport and transferred to the Hotel Himalaya where you will check in If you arrive on a morning flight (or are already there), arrangements will be made for you to have lunch at the hotel, rest, then a visit to Swayambhu (Monkey Temple), with dinner at a nearby local restaurant.
This is a three hour visit focussing on livestock (chickens, fish). Actual participatory work will depend on circumstances at the time of the visit.
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Fly to Pokhara PM Bird watching and visit to the Annapurna Conservation Area office in Pokhara for a lecture on Participatory Conservation. This is a one hour presentation.
Bird watching drive to Ghachok with a visit to the ‘Vulture Restaurant’. Presentation on this safe feeding site for vultures from Diclofenac – one hour.
Evening presentation by Dr Paras Singh on the Snow Leopard project run by BIOCOS – one hour.
With option to stay and do anti poaching programme for Day 6 and Day 7. These are 2 eight hour participatory days, including if a bird or animal is found caught in a trap, they will be given a thorough clinical examination to detect injury.
Evening return to Pokhara.
Biodiversity Centre lecture – one hour.
Visit to the Elephant Centre. An opportunity to discuss the care of the elephants – one hour
A canoe trip on the Rapti River, and safari into the Chitwan National Park and Community Forest. Vist to the fish eating Gharial Breeding Centre – one hour presentation
Meet Nepali vets for day workshop in the wildlife hospital – six hours
Travel back to Katmandu for farewell dinner
International flights.
