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B O R N E O Borneo Rainforest Lodge Outline Itinerary Day 1 Depart London Day 2 Arrive Kuala Lumpur and fly to Kota Kinabalu Days 3-5 Kinabalu National Park Days 6-7 Sukau Days 8-12 Lahad Datu/Danum Conservation Area Day 13 Depart Kuala Lumpur Day 14 Arrive London Party Size Maximum of eight clients. Accommodation Comfortable accommodation in twin/double and single rooms, with private facilities. Transport By coach/minibuses. and mites. As dusk approaches thousands of bats emerge and we may be lucky to see one of the Bat Hawks trying to catch its evening meal. We then move to our lodge where we stay for the next two nights. While here, we can take a boat trip on the Menanggol River to look for Storm's Stork, Oriental Darter, White-fronted Falconet and Wrinkled Hornbill. Sometimes Asian Paradise Flycatcher and Black-naped Monarch feed over the quiet water, and Blue-eared Kingfisher flash past. Our main quest is for the strange Proboscis Monkey, whose idea of beauty is a little different from ours. We hope to see family groups, quietly feeding in the riverside trees or making spectacular leaps through the canopy. Each group is presided over by a white-tailed, potbellied male with a flattened circus-clown nose. Also, we have the chance here to find wild Orangutans. A previous group had wonderful views of an adult building a sleeping platform high in one of the riverside trees. The surrounding forest may produce Buffy Fish-Owl, Black-and-yellow, Banded and Green Broadbills, and various woodpeckers, barbets, hornbills, trogons, minivets, bulbuls and sunbirds. Days 8 to 12 We leave our lodge this morning and have another visit to the amazing Gomantong Caves. Later, we drive through Lahad Datu to the Danum Conservation Area, and transfer to the Borneo Rainforest Lodge for the next five nights. Our time here is spent in the heart of untouched lowland rainforest and hill dipterocarp forest. The rainforests of south-east Asia are incredibly diverse and there are more trees here than in Amazonia. We wake to the calls of Bornean Gibbons calling, as each family group greets Crested Serpent-Eagle others in the forest. White-crowned Shama is an early morning songster, which is soon joined by bulbuls and babblers. One of the key families of Borneo is the pittas – we shall be looking for Garnet Pitta and the marvellous Blue-headed Pitta. The hornbills are also well represented and the amazing Rhinoceros Hornbill will be frequently heard as they give their trumpeting call. There are also Helmeted, Bushy-crested, Asian Black and Wreathed here. The forest holds a number of pheasants and partridges, but none as spectacular as the Great Argus Pheasant. This is the largest of the pheasants and we can hope to see one of the males, which are frequently seen on one of the trails we take. Our time here will be spent moving slowly along the cleared trails and exploring these superb forests. Some of the trees are gigantic and are festooned with orchids and bromeliads. Enormous butterflies flit through dappled glades and overhead Oriental Honey Buzzard and Crested Serpent Eagle soar. We shall look for some of the other special species here, which include Red-naped and Scarletrumped Trogons, Crested Wood-Partridge, Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, White-fronted Falconet, Red-bearded Bee-eater, Short-toed Coucal, Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker, Bornean Blue Flycatcher, Bornean Bristlehead and Bornean and Black-throated Wren-Babblers. The mammal list includes Asiatic Elephants, Orang-utans, Red Langurs, Slow Loris and even Clouded Leopard. Days 13 & 14 The final morning may be spent either at leisure or birding in the park. We then return to Lahad Datu airport, where we catch our flight to Kuala Lumpur. We then connect with our evening flight to London, where we arrive early next morning. Includes All flights, meals, accommodation, transport, entry fees, services of the leaders, airport taxes and tips. Gradings Mainly Good 230 Hot Moderate Special Moderate Good Moderate Scheduled Rhinoceros Hornbill To make a booking please call Ornitholidays on 01794 519445 87
PA P U A N E W G U I N E A Papua New Guinea Birds of Paradise Wednesday 17 September – Friday 03 October 2014 Leaders: Simon Boyes and local guides 2014 Cost £7,999 single room supplement £900 Karawari Lodge Ambua Lodge PAPUA NEW GUINEA Kumu Lodge Port Moresby or many people, New Guinea represents the ultimate birding goal. Certainly Sir David Attenborough regards the country as ‘the greatest F unclaimed prize in ornithological filming.’ His classic programme about the splendours of the birds of paradise and bowerbirds has created a widespread public interest in experiencing New Guinea at first hand. Until recently, the island’s remoteness and lack of tourist infrastructure prevented this dream from becoming reality. Now, with the help of some well-located lodges, we can explore the best Papuan habitats and their unique birdlife in comfort and safety. We will divide our time between one lowland lodge (Karawari) and two highland lodges (Kumul Lodge and Ambua Lodge) before finishing our tour in the capital Port Moresby. This should give us a wonderful opportunity to watch many species of birds of paradise (which possess some of the world’s most exotic plumages and displays), as well as a wide variety of pigeons and fruit-doves, parrots, cuckoo-shrikes, kingfishers and bowerbirds. Less familiar groups include fairy-wrens, whistlers, berrypeckers, butcherbirds and honeyeaters. We will also be able to observe some of Papua’s colourful peoples, with their distinctive tribal dress and customs. There is an option of breaking the outward or return journeys in Singapore for those who wish. This will be Ornitholidays’ third tour to Papua New Guinea ITINERARY Days 1 & 2 We leave London Heathrow on a scheduled flight to Singapore, arriving the next day. We then catch the connecting flight to Port Moresby. Day 3 Arriving in the morning, we are welcomed by our hosts and transferred to our hotel. We have time to freshen up, relax and have lunch. In the afternoon we begin with a gentle introduction to the birds of PNG with a visit to the grounds of the Pacific Adventists’ University, where the ponds attract a good selection of waterbirds. In particular, we will look for Blue-winged Kookaburra, Rufous Night Heron, Black Bittern, Wandering, Plumed and Spotted Whistlingducks, Comb-crested Jacana, Brown Oriole, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Rufous-banded Honeyeater, Black-backed Butcherbird, Torresian Pied Imperial-Pigeon, Orangebreasted Fruit-Dove, Singing Starling and Grey-headed Munia. Days 4 to 6 The next morning we transfer to the airport and take a short domestic flight to Mount Hagen, in the Central Highlands. From here, a 90 minute drive brings us to Kumul Lodge, set at 2,800m just over the border in Enga Province, where we stay for three nights. The accommodation is simple and rustic, but you will love the setting – as you can relax in a comfortable chair and watch the well-stocked bird table laden with fruits and have your first close-up experience of Birds of Paradise! Notable visitors to the garden feeder are Brown Sicklebill and Ribbon-tailed Astrapia, Brehm’s Tiger-Parrot, and with luck the shy Bronze Ground Dove and Archbold’s Bowerbird. The photographic opportunities are wonderful. We also hope for Plum-faced and Papuan Lorikeets, Regent, Brown-backed and Rufous-naped Whistlers, White-winged Robin and Mountain Firetail. We can walk the trails below the lodge and look for Lesser Melampitta, as well as Blue-capped Ifrita, a bird with a poisonous plumage. Excursions we can take from the lodge may enable us to find Magnificent Bird of Paradise, Torrent Flycatcher and with luck Torrent-lark. Days 7 to 9 This morning we say goodbye to the staff at Kumul and make the return journey to Mt Hagen where we catch a charter flight to Karawari Airstrip over impressive mountain scenery. We drop down into the lowlands of the Sepik Valley. The journey from airstrip to lodge is by boat, the only practical transport in such an isolated region. Karawari Lodge is perched on a ridge, with spectacular views over endless tropical forest. It is built in the style of a traditional spirit house, decorated with local artefacts and boldly carved furniture. Here we can watch from the balcony for species such as Blyth’s Hornbill and Glossy-mantled Manucode. The gardens attract Orange-bellied and Coroneted Fruit Doves, Double-eyed Fig-Parrot, Variable Pitohui, Streakheaded Honeyeater and Black Sunbird (to name a few). Much of the birding will be done from stable boats which can be tied to the bank to allow scope use. In this way we will look for King Raggiana Bird of Paradise 88 For a previous tour report or further information please call: 01794 519445
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