On the Island of Java:
 Homestay & Ecotours
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The Adi Family offers a weekend homestay in their home (from
Friday to Sunday), plus a variety of local ecotours. The tour destinations include swallow
caves, a waterfall, hot springs, and a volcanic crater. These take approximately nine
hours. For tours during the week, guests will be picked up at their hotel around 8 AM and
returned around 5 PM.
A Day-Hike on Mount Salak
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Host Adi Purwanto, the father in the family offering the
homestay/ecotour experience above, offers to accompany you on a ten-hour hike beginning in
lowland rainforest and ending high at a volcano's crater. Here you can enjoy hot springs.
The hike ends in a "Candlenut forest," then a short train ride returns the
hikers home.
Eastern Indonesia:
- Birding on Yapen Waropen Island -
Papua
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Host Benny Lesomar guides birders in the 2,062- ha
Inggrisau Reserve, six hours by the motorized boat from Serui. Here you can see a huge
variety of birds, including the Bird of Paradise, as well as turtles such as the Star
Turtle, Dermochelys coriaceae and Shell Turtle, Cretmocechelys Mybas.
Here a six-day itinerary is proposed, though visits of other lengths can be arranged.
Trekking to Meet the Asmat &
Koroway People
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Host Benny Lesomar proposes a two-week itinerary to meet
people living traaditional lives deep in the jungle. The Koraway People are better known
to the outside world as the Tree-house people. This trip has a lot of river travel by
motorized canoe, and trekking through wild jungle. While in the jungle you stay in
people's modest homes and in tents. There are many exotic things to be discovered
and experienced but with a great deal of mosquitoes, mud, heat and high humidity (85 -
100%).
- Birding in West New Guinea
& East Indonesia
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Host Kris Tindige founded the Papua Bird Club hoping to
help preserve the birds and other organisms of a part of the world in which the natural
areas are rapidly being destroyed. "I sell my expertise, working with all 2 hands and
legs I have, to finance this club," he writes. Here we hope to encourage
globe-trotting birders to support Kris's conservation efforts by hiring him as a guide.
Kris has special expertise with the 38 Bird-of-Paradise species found in New Guinea.
On the Island of Sumatra:
- Bukit Tiga Puluh National
Park & Talang Mamak Tribes
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This 8-day trip takes place in a national park comprising about 12,709 km2 of
the Bukit Tigapuluh, a massif rising steeply just south of the equator in the middle of
Sumatra's eastern plain. The park provides a safe haven for thousands of species of plants
and animals, many of which are threatened by extinction or are extremely rare. The park's
forests and its surrounding buffer areas also provide habitat to Talang Mamak and Kubu
forest-dwelling tribal communities and traditional Malay peasants who live in the forest
edges. The trip is hosted by John Kembuan, with a
WWF-trained Bukit Tiga Puluh field guide to be chosen later
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