West Java Birding Tour  

Duration                             : 8Days/7Nights

Depart/Ending                  : Jakarta Hotel

Type of Transport             : Private comfort vehicle

Type of Accommodation : Hotel or Guest House ( based on twin share room )

Grade                                  : Moderate

Tour including :

Pick up service and transfer, private comfort vehicle, accommodation ( based on two persons sharing room ), daily meals, mineral water, soft drink, snacks, fruits, coffee and tea, daily entrance fee per destination, English speaking bird guide, boat trip Jakarta bay

Tour excluding :

Dinner on Day 7 and tipping for guide and driver

Tour Itinerary :

Day 1 Jakarta Hotel – Muara Angke –  Jakarta Bay Birding – Ciwidey 

You will be picked up at hotel in Jakarta around 5 am by our guide, then we drive to Muara Angke for boat trip Birding at Muara Angke and Jakarta Bay and we hope to see one of the highlight :   Sunda Coucal ( its rare ), Milky stork,  Christmas Frigate Bird, Javan Plovers, Javan Pond Herons, Bar-winged Prinias, Red Breasted Parkeet, Small Minivets, Lesser Whistling Duck,  Sunda-Teal, Whimbrel, Little Cormorant, Clamorous Reed Warbler, Javan Myna, Javan Munia, maybe Sunda pygmy woodpecker, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Cerulean Blue kingfisher, Racket_Tailed Treepie, Golden-Bellied Greygone, Straited Heron, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Whisker Tern, Pied Stilt, Eurasian  Moorhen, Pink-necked Green Pigeion, Sunda Collared-Dove, Spotted Dove and Indonesia Honey Eater. Then at 1 PM, we drive direct to Ciwidey by private car will take around 4 approximately. Check in Hotel / Guest house. (L,D)

Day 2 Ciwidey Kawah Putih Full Day Birding Tour  ( B,L,D)

After early breakfast we drive to Kawah Putih by private car and we hope to see the key species such as : Javan Trogon, Horsfield’s Thrush , Sunda Trush, Javan Cochoa, Javan Tesias, Volcano Swiftlets, Javan Scop owl, Javan Hawk-Eagle, White-flanked Sunbird, Pink-headed Fruit Doves, Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch Javan Scops Owl, crescent-chested babbler, Javan flower packer, Rufous tailed fantail, javan froghmouth, salvadori nightjar, Javan tesia, Indonesia Spoted castrel, Pied shrike, Chesnut-Fronted shrike babbler, Flame fronted barbet, Orange spotted bulbul, Javan grey-throated white eyes, Blue whistling trush, Eye browed wren babbler, Mountain White-Eye, Mountain leaft warbler, Sunda Warbler, Sunda bush warbler, Indigo Flycather, Javan whistling Trush, Little Pied flycatcher

Day 3 Ciwidey – Cibodas Birding Tour  ( B,L,D)

Early breakfast will be served at the hotel or Guest house,  and its still possible to bird to look for some key birds species which missed in the previous day. Then check out from the lodge where we will drive to Cibodas, takes around 3 to 4 hours driving if there is not traffic jam. Arrival at Cibodas, check in at the Guest House or Hotel.   Explore Cibodas Botanical Gaden,  is a 84.99 hectares (210.0 acres) botanical garden on the slopes of Mount Gede located in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia^. It was operated by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), which now has been transformed into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Afternoon is available for birding around Cibodas to look for Sunda thrush, White-crowned forkail/Javan forktail.

Day 4 Gunung Gede Birding Full Day Tour  (B,L,D)

After early breakfast at Hotel or Guest house, we drive to the entrance gate of Gunung Gede, then birding around Gunung Gede, and we hope to see  Chesnut-bellied patrige, White flanked sunbird, Javan tesia, pygmy wren babbler, Pygmy tit, White-bibbed babbler, Crescent-chested babbler, Javan Blue robin, Javan flower packer, Rufous tailed fantail, Javan scop owel, Java froghmouth, Salvadori nightjar, Javan tesia, javan spoted castrel, Chesnut-Fronted shrike babbler, White Browed shrike babbler, Javan Hawk eagle, Flame fronted barbet, Orange spotted bulbul, Sunda trush ( its rare ) Javan grey-throated white eyes, Blue whistling trush, little spider-hunter, long-billed spider hunter, Tawny breasted parotpinch, Javan Shrotwing, Javan Whsitling Trush, Rufous fronted Laughingtrush, Javan Banded Broadbill, Indigo Flycather, Snowy browed flycatcher.

Day 5  Cibodas Birding Tour – Halimun Birding Tour (B,L,D)

Early breakfast will be served at hotel / Guest house. And after we have had breakfast, check out then we drive to Cibodas where we will do birdwatching around Cibodas botanical garden. We hope to see Flame fronted barbet, Pygmy bushtit,  Pygmy Cupwing, Lesser Shortwing, Crescent-chested Babbler ,Java’s  Blood-breasted (Javan) Flowerpecker, Javan Fulvetta and White-flanked Sunbird, Yellow-throated Hanging Parrot, Javan Kingfisher, Blue Nuthatches,  and Sunda Minivets. Rusty-breasted Cuckoo , Cave Swiftlet, Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike and Javan Munia. And after we explored Cibodas, we drive to Halimun National Park, arrival at halimun, check in at Cikaniki resort or at Citalahab. If we still have time, available for afternoon birding at halimun.

Day 6 Halimun Birding Full Day Tour (B,L,D)

After early breakfast, we will look for the key birds, such as : Javan Hawk eagle, Javan trogon, Javan Sunbird, White belied fantail, Javan and Sunda forktail, white bibbed babbler, White breasted babbler, spotted croacias, Brown-throated barbet, Flame fronted barbet and Javan Whistling Trush, Javan Cuckooshrike, Pale Blue Jungle Flycatcher, Melodious Bulbul.

Day 7 Halimun Birding Tour – Carita Birding Tour  ( B,L,D)

Today, we will look for some key species which missed in the previous day. Lunch will be served at the guest house, and after lunch we drive to Carita by a private car, arrival at Carita, check in at hotel. Available for night birding  Oriental bay owl, Sunda scops owl, Spotted wood owl and also maybe mammals species.  

Day 8 Carita Birding Tour – Jakarta Hotel / Airport (B,L,)

Early morning breakfast at hotel, and after that, we drive to the entrance gate of Carita Nature Reserve, then we look for the key species, such as : Javan banded pitta, Javan –black capped babbler, Javan frogmouth, Javan owlet ( its rare ), Javan tit babbler /Grey-cheeked tit babbler, and Black-banded barbet. Lunch will be served at the local restaurant. Then we drive back to Jakarta hotel or Jakarta international airport. End of Birding trip.