Much of the adventure and challenge in hiking the infamous Gunung Tambora is getting to the mountain. It’s on the north coast of the island of Sumbawa, with Lombok to the West and Komodo to the East. Sumbawa is not your average tourist destination, and so we were pleased that our friends in the Java [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Ruth’s visit to Indonesia
After my fieldwork in Seram and Sulawesi, I stayed on in Makassar to meet our friend Ruth from the UK. Ruth spent the summer working in SE Sulawesi as part of the Operation Wallacea project, where she was studying civets. It seemed like just the thing we’d all need after time in the forest was [...]
Fieldwork in Seram and Sulawesi
This summer I was lucky enough to spend 3 weeks in the field, in Seram, Maluku province, and also in Central and South Sulawesi. Joining me were Sita and Wihermanto, my colleagues from Kebun Raya Bogor where our research project on biogeography of Eucalyptus deglupta is based. We set out from Bogor in early August [...]