Cultural & Natural History Tour:

Day 1

On arrival guests will be given refreshment drinks. They will be received by the resident Naturalist who will also brief about lodge facilities and discuss about the afternoon programme.

Lunch will be served inside the dining hall or in a good weather, outside in the garden.

Lumbini is the World Heritage Site listed by UNESCO an exceptional cultural importance to the world. After lunch, excursion to the birthplace of Lord Buddha (Maya Devi Temple), Visit to eastern monastic zone (Vihar of Royal Thai (Thailand), Myanmar Monastery (Myanmar), Eternal Peace Flame.

Day 2 

Breakfast

Today after breakfast, we will be driving nearly 17 km through cultivation, villages and forests to reach Gaidahawa Tal (lake). For the conservation of vultures, a vulture restaurant has been set up near the lake.  On the way to this wetland, we will be stopping several times to see the roadside birds. The interesting birds today may include a lot of passrines and with luck threatened species of vultures.  The lake itself will have varieties of ducks eg Lesser Whistling Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Cotton Pygmy Goose etc and other waders.

Lunch will be served inside the dining hall or in a good weather, outside in the garden.

After lunch, visit to Western Monastic Zone (The Chinese Monastery (China), The Great Lotus Stupa, (Tara Foundation), time permitting, we will visit the Peace Pagoda Stupa (Japanese Monastery)

Dinner

Day 3

Before breakfast, we will explore the habitat around the camp for the lowland farmland birds. The camp has 4 hectates of land with mixed woodland, grassland and marshes. Birds may include Grey Hornbill, Asian Koel, Spotted Owlet, Common Babbler, Indian Spotted Eagle, Sarus Crane etc.

Breakfast

Departure