The travel date Ternate - Sorong: 04.10.-15.10. will be guided by Dr George Beccaloni, head of the Wallace Correspondence Project and leading Wallace researcher. Under his guidance, you will have the opportunity to learn many research-backed details about the travels and discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace.

Day 1: Arrival in the Moluccas, Visit of the Spice Islands of Ternate and Halmahera

• Ideally, you had already traveled to the small Moluccan island of Ternate a few days earlier and were able to acclimatize a bit in the meantime. Your sailing adventure tour starts today. Now it's time to check out of your Ternate accommodation, where your local tour guide is already waiting to welcome you and accompany you to your sailing yacht, which is the stately Ombak Putih.
• Once there, you can stow your luggage before setting off on your first discovery tour. You now have the opportunity to gain an insight into the still economically and politically important island of Ternate and learn about Wallace's work here. The small island of Ternate is the only one of the four sultanates of the Northern Spice Islands where the sultanate has existed without interruption since the beginning.
• On your tour you will visit the beautiful Fort Tolukko, built by the Portuguese, as well as the imposing Fort Oranje, built by the Dutch East India Company, the VOC. You will also visit the Sultan's Palace, where you can marvel at the rich collection of royal gifts to the local ruler of his time. You will also visit the probable site of Wallace's house (the precise location is still under research), where the Victorian naturalist wrote his 1858 essay on the natural selection of species and sent it to Charles Darwin.
• Your lunch will be served on the yacht.
• After the lunch break, we continue to the pretty little village of Dodinga, situated on the banks of a river on the island of Halmahera, where Wallace was staying when he discovered the mechanism of evolutionary change while suffering from malaria delirium. It was here that Wallace's theory on natural selection was born. A memorial plaque now honours this historic moment.
• Dinner is served on the yacht.
   

Day 2: Exploration of the Guraici Archipelago

• While your yacht sets course for the South in the morning, you can enjoy a cosy breakfast and take in the enchanting scenery as it passes by and get in the mood for your exciting sailing tour through Indonesia east of the Wallace Line.
• Today is all about exploring the Guraici archipelago, a chain of islands with white sandy beaches, lively coral reefs and some pretty villages. The islands are part of a government-controlled marine reserve, established with the aim of preserving the reefs and the beautiful marine life in all its diversity.
• You can spend the whole day here exploring, swimming, snorkelling, walking on the beach or simply reading and relaxing. A holiday just the way you like it :-)
• Lunch and dinner on your boat.

Day 3: Following Wallace's Footsteps in the Sultanate of Bacan

• This morning you will wake up off the Western coast of Bacan, one of the Spice Islands that make up another historically significant Moluccan sultanate. Bacan ist zudem derjenige Ort, an dem Wallace einige seiner herausragendsten zoologischen Entdeckungen machte.
• After breakfast, you will explore the wooded slopes where Wallace discovered the Wallace Standardwing Paradis bird, the Moluccan Cuscus, the largest bee in the world, the Megachile Pluto, and one of the largest butterflies, the magnificent Golden Birdwing.
  
  For Wallace, the latter was the most beautiful butterfly in the world, prompting him to add the following to his diary after his first sighting in 1859: ‘When I took it from my net and opened its magnificent wings, I was nearer fainting with joy and excitement than ever before in my life; my heart beat violently, and the blood rushed to my head, so that I had a headache for the rest of the day.’ Be one of the few Westerners, who will have the chance to see this rare butterfly species. As these are free-living creatures, we can't give any guarante