19 nights, 7 stops — komodo, papua, sulawesi and sumatra.
Komodo National Park → Waigeo Island → Arfak Mountains → Nimbokrang → Tangkoko Nature Reserve → Lore Lindu National Park → Gunung Leuser National Park.
Round trip · returns to Komodo
Arrive in Komodo National Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. Few wildlife encounters are as primal as standing, with a ranger, near a three-metre Komodo dragon in the open.
Dive or snorkel with mantas and turtles between the islands. Take a ranger-led walk to find Komodo dragons, then snorkel the reefs.
Climb Padar for the island views and visit a pink beach.
Transfer to Waigeo Island. A pre-dawn forest trek for Wilson's and red birds-of-paradise. Bird the lowland forest, then snorkel the island reefs.
Bird the lowland forest, then snorkel the island reefs. Search the canopy for displaying birds-of-paradise. Waigeo offers two of the planet's most spectacular birds within reach of the world's best reefs.
Search the canopy for displaying birds-of-paradise.
Transfer to Arfak Mountains. Sit at a forest hide for the Vogelkop bowerbird and Western parotia. Bird the steep cloud-forest trails for montane endemics.
Bird the steep cloud-forest trails for montane endemics. Dawn and dusk at the display grounds and bowers. The Arfak's bowers and dances are among the most astonishing displays in the bird world.
Dawn and dusk at the display grounds and bowers.
Transfer to Nimbokrang. Dawn at the twelve-wired bird-of-paradise display, then forest birding. Work the canopy leks for the lesser bird-of-paradise.
Work the canopy leks for the lesser bird-of-paradise. Search the lowland forest for pittas, jewel-babblers and parrots. Nimbokrang's lowland birds round out the Arfak's montane species for a full Papua list.
Transfer to Tangkoko Nature Reserve. Dawn with the black macaque troops and dusk with the tarsiers. Walk the coastal forest for hornbills, cuscus and the maleo.
Walk the coastal forest for hornbills, cuscus and the maleo. Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics. Sulawesi's isolation bred a cast of unique animals, and Tangkoko is the easiest place to meet them.
Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics.
Transfer to Lore Lindu National Park. Bird the montane forest for Sulawesi's highland endemics. Explore the megalith valleys between birding sessions.
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.
Transfer to Gunung Leuser National Park. Trek the rainforest from Bukit Lawang for wild orangutans. Walk the forest for gibbons, leaf monkeys and hornbills.
Walk the forest for gibbons, leaf monkeys and hornbills. A longer forest day deeper into Leuser, then the river. The Sumatran orangutan is one of the most endangered apes alive, and Leuser is its last great stronghold.
A longer forest day deeper into Leuser, then the river.
A final morning in Gunung Leuser National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Dry season. Calm seas, clear water and active dragons in the open savannah.
Wetter and lush; seas rougher, but fewer visitors.
A polished Marriott Luxury Collection resort at Labuan Bajo, the refined base for the Komodo islands.
A full-service beach resort near Labuan Bajo with its own jetty for the dragon-island boats.
A relaxed bay resort on Flores, comfortable and well-placed for the Komodo crossings.
A straightforward dive resort on Waigeo, handy for the reefs and the birds-of-paradise treks.
Community-run homestays in the Arfak highlands, basic but perfectly placed for the bowerbird hides.
A dedicated birders' lodge at Nimbokrang, run by the guide who knows every display tree.
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