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Sulawesi Endemics

Tangkoko Nature Reserve · Lore Lindu National Park
Duration
8 Days · 7 Nights
The route
Tangkoko Nature Reserve · Lore Lindu National Park
Style
Tarsiers, macaques and highland endemics
Best season
May – October · best
The route

7 nights, 2 stops — tarsiers, macaques and highland endemics.

Tangkoko Nature Reserve → Lore Lindu National Park.

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What you're tracking

What you'll see

Spectral tarsier
Emerging at dusk.
Sulawesi black macaque
In charismatic troops.
Knobbed hornbill
Overhead.
Maleo
The egg-burying megapode.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Arrive Tangkoko Nature Reserve

Arrive Tangkoko Nature Reserve

The journey begins.

Arrive in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, met and transferred to your accommodation. Sulawesi's isolation bred a cast of unique animals, and Tangkoko is the easiest place to meet them.

02Tangkoko Nature Reserve

Tangkoko Nature Reserve

A full day in the field.

Walk the coastal forest for hornbills, cuscus and the maleo. Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics.

03Tangkoko Nature Reserve

Tangkoko Nature Reserve

A full day in the field.

Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics. Dawn with the black macaque troops and dusk with the tarsiers.

04Tangkoko Nature Reserve → Lore Lindu National Park

To Lore Lindu National Park

On to the next.

Transfer to Lore Lindu National Park. Bird the montane forest for Sulawesi's highland endemics. Explore the megalith valleys between birding sessions.

05Lore Lindu National Park

Lore Lindu National Park

A full day in the field.

Explore the megalith valleys between birding sessions. Search the deep forest for anoa and babirusa. Lore Lindu blends montane endemics with one of Indonesia's most enigmatic archaeological landscapes.

06Lore Lindu National Park

Lore Lindu National Park

A full day in the field.

Search the deep forest for anoa and babirusa.

07Lore Lindu National Park

Lore Lindu National Park

A full day in the field.

Bird the montane forest for Sulawesi's highland endemics.

08Depart Lore Lindu National Park

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Lore Lindu National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

May – October

Peak season

Drier season — easiest forest walking and reliable wildlife.

Year-round

Good season

The endemics are resident; the forest delivers in most months.

Destinations

Where this journey goes

Wildlife you may see
Birds Primates

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Field notes, now and then.

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