11 nights, 3 stops — sulawesi and the moluccas.
Tangkoko Nature Reserve → Lore Lindu National Park → Halmahera Island.
Round trip · returns to Tangkoko Nature Reserve
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.
Walk the coastal forest for hornbills, cuscus and the maleo. Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics.
Search the figs for tarsiers and the trails for endemics. Dawn with the black macaque troops and dusk with the tarsiers.
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.
Search the deep forest for anoa and babirusa.
Bird the montane forest for Sulawesi's highland endemics.
Transfer to Halmahera Island. Dawn at the standardwing lek, then lowland forest birding. Search the forest for Halmahera's Moluccan endemics.
Search the forest for Halmahera's Moluccan endemics. Bird in the morning and snorkel the reef by afternoon. Wallace's standardwing links Halmahera directly to the birth of evolutionary biology — and it still displays each dawn.
Bird in the morning and snorkel the reef by afternoon.
Dawn at the standardwing lek, then lowland forest birding.
A final morning in Halmahera Island — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Drier season — easiest forest walking and reliable wildlife.
The endemics are resident; the forest delivers in most months.
A comfortable lodge on the edge of Tangkoko, minutes from the tarsiers and macaques.
A simple highland guesthouse in the Lore Lindu valleys, a base for the montane birding.
A forest-and-shore resort on Halmahera, set up for the standardwing and Moluccan endemics.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.