The Province of North Sulawesi in the Republic of Indonesia is a great destination for visitors who like birding, wildlife watching, and sightseeing. To explore most of the birding sites, visitors need from 4 days to two weeks. The first place that can be visited is waterfall in the suburban area of Manado city. We need to go there by car and walk along slippery concrete path to the waterfall to see its beauty.
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| Some Birds in Minahasa |
Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Barn Swallow, and Sulawesi Swiftlet are the birds that we can see flying around the open space near the cliff of the waterfall.
After that we could walk back to main road and then enjoy watching birds.
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| Birds in Minahasa Highland |
As we walk along the roadside, we can see more interesting birds such as Oriental Dollardbird, Green Imperial Pigeon, and Black-naped Fuit Dove. There are Sulawesi Spangled Drongo, Sulawesi Crow, Collared-Kingfisher, Little Egret, and Cattle Egret in the farmland of around the waterfall. There are Ruddy-breasted Crake, Isabelline Bush-hen and White-browed Crake too.
After exploring the waterfall and farmland, we can go to Bunaken island the next day to enjoy snorkeling and watching birds.
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| Birding in Sonder town of Minahasa highland - the Province of North Sulawesi - Indonesia |
Returning to Manado city, we can continue our trip to Doloduo and stay in a homestay. It is far from Manado and takes a few hours to reach it.
We can also walk along the roadsides, around the rice field and watch birds such as Rock Pigeon, Red-collared Dove, Sahul Sunbird, Chestnut/ Black-headed Munia, Pacific Swallow near a water dam. Black-faced Munia like to hop around the branches of shrub plants. To shoot the birds, visitors need cameras with telephoto lenses.
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| Scaly-breasted Kingfisher |
After spending a few days in Doloduo, the birding trip could be continued to Tangkoko Nature Reserve for a few days. A lot of birds could be photographed there including Sulawesi Hornbill, Ashy Woodpecker, Ruddy Kingfisher, Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher, Sulawesi Hanging Parrot, Finch-billed Myna, White-eyed Spangled Drongo, Spotted Dove, White-rumped Triller, Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon, Knobbed Hornbill and a lot more. Mammals can also be watched in Tangkoko's forest. Two interesting species are Celebes Crested Macaque and Spectral Tarsier. The trip to Tangkoko will be a prolific birding experience.
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| Sulawesi Hanging Parrot |
The highland of Minahasa is in the list of places to visit. By car, we can go to Tomohon to stay there for a few nights. We will go hiking to the crater of Mount Mahawu, to see the magnificent view of the landscape. We can enjoy drinking tea and watching birds in Lake Linow or Pine Forest in Lahendong. Another attraction is and the Extreme Traditional Market near the bus station. People sell and buy dogs, snake, fruit bats, mouse as meat.
For the last leg of the tour, we could go to Paal beach in North Minahasa regency. The scenery is beautiful. It has got white sandy beach.
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| Paal Beach in North Sulawesi |
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| Speckled Boobook |
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| Sulawesi Scops Owl |
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| Flight Routes to Manado City |
There are daily flights from major city in Indonesia to Manado city served by such airlines as Garuda, Citilink, Batik Air and Lion Air. There is direct flight between Singapore and Manado city served by Scoot Air.
If you are interested in visiting the province of North Sulawesi in Indonesia, and want me to organize your trip and guide you, please, contact me (Charles Roring) by e-mail to: peace4wp@gmail.com or by whatsapp to: -6281332245180.
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