completed birding expedition to papua –indonesia
(wamena, biak ,arfak mountain, raja ampat island)
28 days / 27 nights program expedition

this tour is designed for people who love to see kind of bird watching and wish for more of the truly unique experiences. alternatively it should also appeal to the adventurous newcomer who wants to explore some of the most remote and less well known papua island areas.

the tour start with arrive in jayapura city and next day fly to wamena, the administrative and communications hub of the baliem valley. from here we begin our nine-day round trip trek with our group of porters through the forested hills until we reach lake habbema below mt trikora, papua second highest mountain. this area holds some of new guinea’s most sought-after species including salvadori’s teal, snow mountain quail, lorentz’s whistler, orange-cheeked honeyeater, sooty melidectes, short-bearded melidectes, archbold’s bowerbird and the weird and wonderful macgregor’s bird of paradise. our long trek back to wamena takes us through some spectacular alpine scenery and the chance of more montane species in this almost ornithological unknown area.

then visit biak island, home to nine (arguably ten) endemics including biak paradise-kingfisher, biak red lory, biak monarch and biak black flycatcher.

from biak we fly to manokwari, the logistics base for our next mountain adventure. from here we fly to minyambow in the arfak mountains where we will again explore some rarely visited areas. during our four day stay we expect to see a wide variety of montane species including many sought-after endemics such as wattled brush-turkey, smoky robin, vogelkop whistler, vogelkop bowerbird, flame (masked) bowerbird, long-tailed paradigalla, arfak astrapia and western parotia.

after our mountain trek we return to manokwari and explore the local lowland forest. from this area, continue your adventure birding to sorong, raja ampat island .using traditional local boat to cruise to batanta island where we stay for two nights. this island holds the red bird of paradise which occurs in the lowland forest and the spectacular wilson’s bird of paradise which occurs on mt batanta. the slog up the steep mountain is tough but the birds are worth it! we will also visit neighboring salawati island which also holds both king and magnificent birds of paradise. here we will also to try and find the large but elusive western crowned pigeon if we have not already seen it on batanta.

we then return to sorong for our final afternoon birding and finally fly back to jayapura via biak to connect with our international flights.