The most elaborate bower-builder on earth, at its hut-like maypole.
The 'ballerina' bird's dance, watched from a forest hide.
Arfak astrapia, Vogelkop melidectes and a wealth of highland birds.
The Arfak is birded from community homestays and hides — simple, but giving access to some of New Guinea's strangest birds.
It anchors the West Papua birds-of-paradise circuit with Nimbokrang and Waigeo.
We run the Arfak with the local birding communities who tend the hides and bowers.
At the Vogelkop bowerbird's maypole.
From a forest blind.
The montane endemics on the trails.
We choose the lodge and guiding that fit your dates and targets, not whatever is left.
We build your visit around the season and the displays that deliver.
Bird the cloud forest for bowerbirds and parotias. Tell us your dates and we will build the route around it.
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