Labuan Bajo is the capital city of West Manggarai regency and it’s located at the western most tip of Flores Island. The city serves as a gateway to explore the islands around Komodo National Park for snorkeling or diving and…
Mount Tambora Trekking Adventure, Sumbawa
Mount Tambora is an amazing volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. Once, Mount Tambora rose as high as 4,300 m above sea level. The eruption of 1815, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, killed over 100,000 people and…
Tangkahan Elephant Adventure, North Sumatra
Tangkahan is a small rural settlement on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park. It is more isolated than Bukit Lawang and has not been developed to the same extent. Get up close and personal with Sumatra’s largest animal,…
Ruteng Spider Web Rice Fields, Flores
Head toward Ruteng, a pleasantly cool town located up in the western hills. Around 17km west of Ruteng lies an even smaller town named Cancar – you’ll have the most amazing view over spectacularly intricate spider web rice fields from…
Organic Bajawa coffee, Flores
Flores is a small island (360 km from tip to tip) in the Indonesian archipelago around 200 nautical miles East of Bali. Flores was known as Pulau Nipa (Snake Island) before the Portuguese arrived and they renamed it Flores (Flower…
Meet the Korowai Tribe of West Papua
The Korowai Tribe are a fascinating tribe only recently discovered in Papua New Guinea. Up until the 1970s, there had been no previous recorded contact between them and the western world. In fact, scientists believe the tribe may not have…
Munduk Trekking, Bali
On the north of Bali lies the twin lakes of Tamblingan and Buyan. An excellent hiking trail close to these lakes will take you to the Munduk Waterfall, a scenic cocoa, coffee and clove plantation before concluding the hike with…
Celebrating the Total Solar Eclipse from Poso in Central Sulawesi & Bangka-Belitung
On 9th March 2016, the spectacular phenomenon of a total solar eclipse will pass across a large part of the Indonesian archipelago, where among places most clearly visible to follow are on the islands of Bangka and Belitung off Sumatra and the town of Poso in…
Bukit Lawang Eco-lodge, Sumatra
Bukit Lawang is a small village in North Sumatra and is famous for the largest animal sanctuary of Sumatra Orang-Utan (around 5,000 Orang-Utans occupy the area), and also the main access point to the Gunung Leuser National Park. Bukit Lawang…
Papua Trekking Adventure
Though no longer home to the cannibals and headhunters it was once famous for, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea still offers plenty of opportunities to go where few have gone before among some of the most…