Duration: 5
days
Starting Point: Ternate (Halmahera)
Ending Point: Ternate
(Halmahera)
Physical difficulty: Moderate
to difficult
Focus: Birding
Bird Photography: is the best, Halmahera bird endemic
Walking condition: From easy to moderate.
Type of Land Transport & Road: Minibus or cars. Road is some part in good condition and some part
in bad condition. Speedboat
Accommodation: Stay at the Standard Hotel
Min group size: 2 persons
Max group size: 6 persons
Itinerary :
Day 1: Ternate – Halmahera
Morning birding around the hotel and its good for Java sparrow, buff banded
rail, Barred rail, Olive backed Sunbird, White breasted Woodswallow.From here
we will transfer to the Manado airport for our flight to Ternate and from there
we take a speed boat to Sofifi on Halmahera and after check-in at the hotel and
if time permited we birding for Common Paradise Kingfisher and Ivory-breasted
Pitta. Accommodation at Bolote Hotel in Sofifi
Day 2 :Fullday Birding in Sidanggoli
Breakfast at 04.30 and leave the Hotel at 5 AM, from the hotel to the birding
site about 45 minutes driving. Our birds target are: Common paradise
kingfisher, Sombre kingfisher, Blue and white kingfisher, Ivory-breasted Pitta,
Blyt’h Hornbill, Goliatcoucal, Golden bulbul. Night at Bolote hotel in Sofifi.
Day 3 :Aketajawe NP – Subaim / Poli
Morning birding in Aketajawe NP for Ivory breasted Pitta, Variable dwarf
Kingfisher, Azure Kingfisher, Blue and White Kingfisher, Sombre Kingfisher,
Paradise crow, Long billed Crow, Blyths Hornbill. Lunch at local restaurant and
after lunch we should drive to Subaim/Poli for overnight stay.
Day 4 :Poli – Sofifi – Ternate
Early morning we need to be at the Lek of the Poli, this location of one of the
display trees of the rare and magnificent bird of Wallace’s standardwing. late
afternoon we will go back to Sofifi for 4 hours driving the catch the speedboat
back Ternate for overnight.
Day 5 :TERNATE – JAKARTA.
Breakfast at the hotel and then we transfer by car to ternate airport for next
destination. End of the trip.
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Wallace's Standardwing |
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Sombre Kingfisher |
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Variable Kingfisher |
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Ivory-breasted pitta |
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Moluccan pitta |
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Moluccan owlet-nightjar |
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