I couldn’t find a field guide to Java, or even a list of the mammals for the island. Indra accompanied me to Gunung Halimun and he knows the park well. Eddy can be contacted via Freddy’s Homestay in Cibodas (they are in the Lonely Planet and probably best contacted by checking on Google). He is mainly a birder but he was good at finding mammals and found most of what I was looking for and worked hard to do it. Javan Small-toothed Palm Civet, Arctogalidia trilineataĮddy, my guide in Gunung Gede, was particularly committed and I’d recommend him.
I would consider using the company again, but next time I would ask for a lot more detail on what was included for the price and perhaps use them only for the more complicated segments of a trip. For most of the trip I was based at Gunung Gede, staying in Indra’s father’s guest house – Freddy’s Homestay – and using Indra’s brother Eddy as a guide, and so in fact there was not a great deal of arranging to be done. But they did know where to see some things and promised to try hard to find the things I wanted to see and we arranged to visit two national parks: Gunung Gede and Gunung Halimun.Īlthough IF-Ecoadventure arranged the trip well, and I was happy with the guiding in particular, the trip was expensive and I guess it cost at least twice what it would have cost me to have organised myself. They primarily run birding tours and were honest that they didn’t know a great deal about the mammals. I only had a few days so I contacted Indra and Panca at IF-Ecoadventure to see what they could do. I couldn’t find much info at all on mammal watching in Indonesia and decided to confine my first visit to Java.
JAVA EBAY WATCHER FREE
I visited Indonesia for the first time in June 2010 and after a meeting in Jakarta I had a few free days before leaving for New Caledonia.
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