Round trip 16 days Adventurous Papua - Baliem valley and diving Raja Ampat

Garuda Indonesia flies non-stop from Amsterdam to Jakarta with her new Boeing 777-300 ER. Experience the hospitality of the Indonesian culture on board of Garuda Indonesia, the national flight company of Indonesia. This direct flight takes you in 13 and a half hour from Amsterdam to Jakarta. Departure from Amsterdam around midday, arrival Jakarta early in the morning. Your connecting flight to Jayapura leaves about 16 hours later and takes ca 5,5 hours. In between your two flights you will use the FM7 resort, a 30 minutes-drive from the airport. Your connecting flight leaves halfway through the evening and arrives around sunrise. A more comfortable alternative is the code-share KLM flight, with departure from Amsterdam around 20:50 and arrival in Jakarta in the late afternoon. Your connecting flight to Jayapura leaves about five and a half hours later. Max. weight: 30 kg.

Your flight arrives in the morning in Jakarta and your connecting flight only leaves later in the evening. We booked a room for day-use in the FM7-resort, a 30 minute drive from the airport. At the exit of the airport, outside, your driver is waiting for you and drives you to the hotel.

Your flight arrives in the morning in Jakarta and your connecting flight only leaves later in the evening. We booked a room for day-use in the Bandara International hotel, a 10 minute drive from the airport. At the exit of the airport, outside, your driver is waiting for you and drives you to the hotel.

From Jayapura airport you fly with Trigana airlines to Wamena, a flight of almost an hour. When you arrive in Wamena we pick you up at the airport, then visit some villages around Wamena and check you in for 4 nights at the Pilamo hotel in the centre of Wamena.

Flight with Trigana Air, Wings or NAM Air Daily departures from Jayapura: 06:45, 08:50, 09:05, 11:10 en 13:30 from Wamena: 07:50, 09:55, 12:15, en 14:35

After breakfast a little more than a half an hour drive to Sogokmo for a day hiking in the wonderful surroundings of the Baliem river. Via a hanging bridge we walk along traditional Dani villages and across sweet potato fields. After our picnic lunch we return to Sogokmo, where the car is waiting to drive us back to the hotel in Wamena.

After a one-hour drive we reach Jiwika in the central part of the Baliem valley. Here starts our climb of about one hour uphill through the mountain rainforest. We arrive in a traditional Dani village with a salt mine. Ladies in traditional clothes accompany us and show us the original way of salt mining. After our lunch in the village we walk to Kurulu where we’ll see a very old mummy of de famous Dugum clan. Everywhere the friendly people from Kurulu will show you their jewelry, art, weapons and other curiosities.

All day long we will visit a traditional pig festival in Jiwika. THE opportunity to attend this special ceremony where they prepare a pig on hot stones. The Dani still celebrate these pig festivals, notably for weddings. During our tour this traditional ceremony will be held especially for you, which means a nice little earner for them and allows you, with your guide, to meet and speak with the Dani people.

Immediately after breakfast we leave the hotel and take the first flight from Wamena, back to Jayapura. You’ll stay there one night in the Swissbell hotel or the simpler, but very cosy beachfront Tablanusa resort in Depapre. The rest of the day you can do a sightseeing tour with a visit to the Mc Arthur war monument and lake Sentani. If you stay in Jayapura you can also go to the museum and the Hamadi market.

Na het ontbijt brengt uw chauffeur u naar het vliegveld voor uw vlucht naar Sorong. U wordt hier van het vliegveld afgehaald en naar de haven gebracht. Rond 12:00 vertrekt de speedboot naar het resort waar u uw eerste duik kunt nemen in de wateren van Raja Ampat.

These days you can dive and snorkel at will in the most beautiful area of Indonesia. Between November and March a diving- or a snorkelling trip at Manta Sandy is a must! But don’t forget to admire the seahorses, wobbegong sharks, barracudas and other wonderful fish above the marvellous healthy coral as well. Besides diving and snorkelling you can book excursions to the birds of paradise or a traditional village on the spot. Or just chill out on the beach…

One of the most beautiful experiences comes abruptly to an end when at 6 AM the speedboat sails back to civilization. You’ve plenty of time to catch your flight. Your driver is waiting for you at the harbour to take you to the airport.

Flight with Garuda Indonesia Sorong-Amsterdam with transfers in Makassar and Jakarta. Departure from Sorong in the late afternoon with transfer of a good 2,5 hour in Makassar, arrival in the evening in Jakarta. The connecting flight leaves in the evening from Jakarta. Arrival Amsterdam in the morning.

In the morning arrival at Schiphol. The end of a beautiful trip...