Lore Lindu Birding

Price packages include:
Transportation, Accommodation (Based on a shared room), 3 Meals per day, Mineral Water, Snack, Local Bird Guide Fee, Entry permit to the park.

Price Excludes:
Extra beverages in the hotel/Restaurant, Soft drinks/Alcoholic drinks, laundry, phone calls, donation, and personal insurance. All personal expenses that are not mentioned in the items above. Any kind of expenditures incurred due to flight cancellations/delays or due to other causes beyond our control.

Sample Itinerary
Day 1 Palu Arrival – Lore Lindu National Park Birding
Upon arrival at Palu Airport, you will be transferred directly to the guesthouse.

Day 2 - 4 Lore Lindu National Park Birding
There is probably nowhere better to see Sulawesi’s unique avifauna, with 80% of the island’s endemic species. This park has a well-deserved reputation for montane specialities. Our main targets here are the magnificent Sulawesi endemic of the Purple-Beared Bee-Eater, Shy Great Shortwing, Malia, Geomalia, Chestnut-backed Bush Warbler, noisy Caerulean cuckoo shrikes, Sulawesi Cicadabirds, Black-fronted White-eye, black Sunbird, Black-naped Monarch and the Citrine Flycatcher, Island Flycatcher, Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher, Mountain serin, Sulawesi myzomela, Ivory-backed wood-swallow, Ornate lorikeet, Small-sparrow hawk, Maroon-backed Whistler, Heinrich nightjar, Speckled boobook, Cinabar Boobook, Sulawesi scops owl, Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker, Spot-tailed Goshawk, Spotted kestrel, lemon-bellied white-eye, Sulawesi Triller, Sulawesi cicadabird, Sulawesi serpent eagle and many more with luck! On at least one of the days, we will make the climb up the infamous Anaso Track, which allows access to higher altitudes, and the possibility of Sulawesi’s sole endemic bird family - Hylocitrea (yellow flanked whistler); the strange and rare Geomalia (recently found to be an odd zoothera thrush); along with Golden-mantled and Yellow-breasted Racquet-tails, Red-eared Fruit-Dove, Maroon-backed Whistler, White-eared Myza, and Streak-headed Dark-eye. These ascents will also give us a chance at the rare Mountain Serin, Sombre Pigeon, and with luck, we might see the Purple-bearded Bee-eater known as the world’s most interesting bee-eater. There is also often the chance to find Diabolical Nightjars roosting during the day on the Anaso track. On day 04 in the late afternoon, we will drive back to Palu for an overnight stay.

Day 5 Palu – Next Destination
Following breakfast at the hotel, you will prepare for your departure as you have a scheduled flight to your next destination. This marks the conclusion of your trip. Thank you for joining us.

Key birds in Lore Lindu

Practical Info:

Minimum amount of days: 3 (2 nights).

Advised amount of days: 5 (4 nights).

Maximum amount of days: 6 (there is only one real entrance to the forest, so you walk in the same part every day).

Price Tangkoko 5 days 4 nights: US$ per person

Needed level of fitness: Average, there is some hiking involved to see the Kingfishers, accommodation is comfortable.

Logistics:

Nearest airport: Manado, connections to all Indonesian cities and Singapore.

Transport: From Manado to Tangkoko 1.5 hours with a private car and during the stay we walk, drive short distances with a private car and use a boat for a mangrove trip.

Accommodation:

Tangkoko Hill Cottages:
Cozy lodge with comfortable rooms, located on the edge of the park with a nice jungle garden and nice bird species.

Combinations and extensions:

Good destinations to combine with Tangkoko: Manado, Tomohon, Dumago Bone, Lore Lindu and Waigeo.

Included:

Accommodations during the trip, Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), Mineral water, Car transport for the group to all sites in the itinerary, English Speaking Bird Guide, Entrances to Parks and Reserves, Local guides, Hide fee, Landowner fee (Hak Wilayah fee), and local park ranger.

Excluded:

All personal expenses that are not mentioned on the items above, domestic flight tickets, Camera/luggage porters in the jungle, Alcoholic beverages, Travel Insurance, Excursions not included in the tour itinerary, Extras in hotels such as laundry service, minibar, room service, telephone calls, Tips to drivers, local guides, and land owner, Personal items; medical fees; other items or services not specifically mentioned as being included, Any expenditures incurred due to flight cancellation/delays or other causes beyond our control.