birding in paradise
My time sorting out administrative tasks in London came to a rapid end, and earlier this month I resumed my travelling life - this time to SE Asia, a part of the world I do not know very well at all. The title of this post is the name given by the bird-watching company I always use to describe their bird-watching trip to PNG (Papua New Guinea), where one can see up to nineteen different species in the birds-of-paradise family. I booked this trip in September last year as it was a life-long dream to see birds-of-paradise – choosing late July dates so that the trip would tie in with a trip run by a different company to see the cultural side of PNG. However, in February the bird-watching company contacted me to tell me that the PNG trip would not run on the dates I had booked, since they had only two bookings. So I transferred my deposit to a July trip to Eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi, North Moluccas and West Papua), on the basis that this trip also provided the chance to see a few speci