Wildlife Tours West & Central Java, 30 Sep-06 Oct 2024
A tremendous succees of our 7D6N wildlife tour to West and Central Java, with all seven primate species of the island seen and photographed! Primates became the most priority to fi
Wildlife Tours Central & East Java, 31 Jul-06 Aug 2024
Seven days of fruitful wildlife tours saw 4 primates, 14 mammals and 101 bird species. Some of the highlights are Silvery (Javan) Gibbon, Javan Fuscous Leaf Monkey, and Javan Chevr
Advert: A place just opened up on Royle Safari’s Javan Rhino trip this June
Royle Safaris just had a late cancellation on their June trip this year in search of Javan Rhinos from June 1 – 10 – one spot is now open. There’s an optional 5 n
West Java – July 15-29 2023
Gunung Halimun NP, Carita and Ujong Kulon NP. 15 days and 25 mammals, jointly organized by Royle Safaris and Birding Bali. A great trip even though there was no Javan Rhino sight
A quick dash through Tangkoko Nature Reserve (Sulawesi) and around Jakarta, June 2023
At the end of our West Papua trip, Carlos Bocos and I took the slow route back to Jakarta via a stop off in Sulawesi. We had not planned the trip in advance in case we decided to h
Advertising: Javan Rhino Trip in August with Royle Safaris
Indonesia is opening up again and Royle Safaris are running an additional trip this year, from August 2 – 11, to look for the mega-rare Javan Rhino in Java’s Ujong Kulo
New Checklist of the Mammals of Indonesia
Many thanks to Carlos Bocos for sending me this third (2019) edition of the Checklist to the Mammals of Indonesia. This is a particularly useful checklist as I don’t think t
New Trip Reports: Tangkoko, Sulawesi and Gunung Gede
Two more installments of Hugh Lansdown’s photographic trip through Indonesia. Tangkoko, Sulawesi, 2020: Hugh Lansdown, 4 days & 4 species including Bear Cuscus. Gunung Ge
New Trip Report: Indonesia
Here’s a new report from Richard Webb who just led a tour through Kalimantan, Sumatra, Java, Flores and Kimodo. Indonesia, 2016: Richard Webb, 2 weeks & 44 species
Java and Bali
Provided you can escape Jakarta’s insane traffic (it took me 2.5 hours one evening to do a journey across town that took 10 minutes coming back), it should take about 3.5 hours d