Moluccas: Manusela National Park Adventure Tour, Seram Island

Moluccas: Manusela National Park Adventure Tour, Seram Island. Individually guided discovery tour to the jungle areas of the undeveloped Manusela National Park on Seram Island in Central Moluccas. Go on a trekking and explore the life of the rainforest and meet cassowaries, civet cats, couscous, cockatoos, and more.

Moluccas: Manusela National Park Adventure Tour, Seram Island

You will love the trip to Seram in the far east of Indonesia if you like to move around in pristine nature far away from the tourist crowds and meet exotic animals and ways of life. You find it quite exciting to discover unknown flora and fauna, even if you have to do without travel comfort.

You want to travel to the Moluccas on business, especially to the island of Seram, to collect information and data for your project or research work and need a guide for this? No problem!

Whether you are a journalist, ornithologist, zoologist, biologist or ethnologist, we can adapt our offer to your needs.

Go on a discovery tour: Far from the typical tourist trails, our trip to Manusela National Park on the island of Seram gives you an extraordinary opportunity to explore a remote, untouched part of the world. Following your spirit of discovery, you will be thrilled to encounter a whole range of extraordinary endemic plant, animal and bird species and also visit a primitive people. Early rising suits you as well as a lonely jungle environment; you move in harmony with nature.

Your fitness level: You need to be in good shape for this trip. Although much of the route will be covered by vehicle, there will be some walking, which will take you through rough terrain. You may also find the tour a bit strenuous as you may have to make your own way through the jungle with camera equipment in tropical temperatures.

Manusela National Park was established in 1997 to protect an area of 1,890 km², which is about 11 % of the area of Seram Island and includes coastal and swamp forest as well as lowland rainforest and montane rainforest as ecosystems. Mount Binaiya is the highest mountain in the park at 3,027 metres. Among the plants that grow in Manusela National Park are various species of pandanus and orchids. 

Seram is home to over 100 different bird species, 15 of which are endemic. These include the Salmon-crested Cockadoo, the Eclectus Parrot, the Moluccan King Parrot, the Purple-naped Lori, the Sacred Kingfisher, the Boano Monarch and the Seram Masked Owl. 

The island of Seram is also home to the largest number of endemic mammals of any island in the region, with 38 species. The Seram Bandicoot, Moluccan Flying Fox and Seram Flying Fox, Seram Couscous and Seram Civet Cat are among the species found here.