What is the smallest commercial plane you’ve ever been on? I have been on quite a few small planes in my day, but when it
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Tag: birding indonesia
Indonesia – Simeulue – Completely Cleaning Up
In case you missed it, we had just spent the previous days visiting a few small islands off the coast of Sumatra. Over the course
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Indonesia – Time For a Boat Trip! – Bangkaru & Babi
Indonesia is an island nation most famous among international tourists for the beautiful paradise that is the island of Bali. But let me tell you,
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Indonesia – Java – Wait, There’s Birds Around Jakarta?!
After Gunung Gede we were headed towards Jakarta to do a little birding because we were a bit ahead of schedule. If you read the
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Indonesia – Gunung Gede – Three Days Up A Mountain
If I’m being honest, Ross is the brains behind most of our birding adventures. While I am definitely a lister myself, my life list isn’t
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Indonesia – Halimun – Hallelujah, We Made It To Halimun!
It’s a hefty day of travel when you are going to the other side of the world. I mean that. And when I say “day”
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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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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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