After a quick 18 hour stop over in Malaysia and a change of airlines in Bangkok due to long delays, I finally arrived in the
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Biak – West Papua – Number 5,000
We knew Biak was going to be special. Ross was going to achieve a lifelong goal and see 5,000 species of the world’s birds. That’s
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Nimbokrang – West Papua – Chasing Dinosaurs
On our flight over to Nimbokrang after the Arfak Mountains, Stephan and Ross prepped Claudia and myself by basically saying how miserable Nimbokrang would be.
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Arfaks – West Papua – Arrrfakkkk (“White People Walk Into The Forest and Money Comes Out”)
This area of West Papua, The Arfaks Mountains, is world renowned thanks to the likes of David Attenborough narrating about the uniqueness of the area
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Raja Ampat – West Papua – The Land of Beautiful Islands
West Papua, while technically part of Indonesia, couldn’t be more different than the rest of the country. In fact, when Indonesia declared independence from the
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Seram Part 2 – Indonesia – Well That Ended On a Happy Note
After a rough 6 day trek up Mount Binaiya we planned to finish up our time on the island of Seram by visiting a very
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Seram – Indonesia – The Perfect Storm (And People Live Out Here?!)
Six days and 70+ kilometers later, we ended a trek planned entirely on a whim. A trek we were not prepared to go on and
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Boano – Indonesia – The Successful Shit Show
Typically an island so small hardly warrants its own blog post, but the events that unfolded on our visit to the island of Boano became
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Buru – Indonesia – Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Buru Hantu
We have learned that there is always a look of enlightenment that occurs after we say the words buru hantu, Indonesian for owl. When people
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Kai Islands (Kecil & Besar) – Indonesia – What the Fako?
Our visit to the Kai Islands was certainly one for the books. When Google Maps and Maps.me both showed the small town of Fako in
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