Arfak Foothills Birds Photography

WEST-PAPUA-ARFAK FOOTHILLS BIRDS PHOTOGRPAHY

Arfak mountain birding trip-Papua

On this West Papuan, birding breaks we are basically follow in the footsteps of the great Italian naturalists D’Albertis and Beccari, who once collected in the Hatam-country only a few kilometers away from our village base in the Arfak Mountains on the mid-slopes of majestic Mount Indon, towering 2,425 m above the Prafi Valley. Nearly a century and a half elapsed since the intrepid D’Albertis was the first westerner to penetrate any distance into the mountains of New Guinea exactly here in 1872, but birding these magnificent woods, swathed in clouds during parts of most days, remains an irresistible adventure. A privileged opportunity also, to be taken in tow by the Hatam, across their ancestral lands, and marvel at endemic bird life that few outsiders have ventured to come and see before.

More info about our Birds trip activities, please watch on our You Tube channel: https://youtu.be/XXm0dQxwYn8