Bajawa
A lovely hill town set in splendid scenery and popular tourist stopover on the Trans-Flores Highway. The birding is better at other sites, but the fascinating traditional villages of Bene and Luba, 12 km south of Bajawa, are well worth the diversion. The road down to these villages has good, open country birding.
Ruing
A small coastal town and delightful hang-out, due north of Bajawa. Best known for the excellent snorkeling on reefs around a group of islands just offshore in the bay and an immense fruit-bat colony in the mangroves surrounding one of the islands. For birders the main attraction is Great-billed Heron, which is easy to find along the shore. The dry monsoon forest on the hills immediately behind the town, as yet unexplored, is definitely worth checking out.
Getting there
There are 3-4 buses a day from Bajawa to Riung. The journey takes about 3 hrs and cost IDR 12,000.
General information
The villagers have got themselves organized into a cooperative, himpunan pramuwisata Indonesia, which provides guides and manages trips out to the reefs. Expect to pay $7-10 for guide and $25 for boat charter.
One or two small trading boats leave from Riung each week for Ujung Pandang via Tanahjampea (which has an endemic flycatcher). An adeventurous (and cheap) way to link Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi itineraries.
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Kisol: Birdwatching in Lowland Forest
An easy base for lowland forest birding. Kisol is a small village, 68 km from Ruteng, 9 km east of Mborong, on the road to Bajawa near the south coast. At Nangarawa, on the coast south of Kisol, there are patches of lowland forest and scrub; there is also a small estuary with mangroves, 10 km along a bad road passable to 4WD vehicles. Mt Poco Ndeki (Pacandeki) is a forested mountain south of Kisol, 45 min on foot.
Key species
Most lowland species including Bonelli’s Eagle, Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Green Junglefowl, Green Imperial Pigeon, Flores Green Pigeon, Great-billed Parrot, Red-cheeked Parrot, Moluccan and Wallce’s Scopsowls, White-rumped Kingfisher, Elegant Pitta, Chestnut-capped Thrush, Asian Paradise-flycatcher, Black-naped and Spectacled Monarchs, Flame-breasted Sunbird, Yellow-spectacled White-eye, Thick-billed Darkeye, Flores crow. In open country or on the south coast: Wooly-necked Stork, Changeable Hwak-eagle, Malaysian Plover, Beach Thick-knee, Lesser Whistling-duck.
Getting there
Take any Bajawa bus and get off at Kisol ($2). Alternatively charter a car for the 2-hr drive ($30).
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