Tropical rainforest of Sorong regency is the natural habitat of a lot of species of birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles.
It is a great destination for visitors who are interested in seeing the flora and fauna of tropical rainforest. There is a forest area that is a very good place for wildlife tour.
Its name is Klaimis forest located around 1 hour 15 minutes ride by 4WD car from Sorong city.
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| Western-crowned Pigeon |
Visitors who go there usually spend at least 3 days/ 2 nights in a jungle guesthouse to watch birds of paradise and other tropical birds of New Guinea. Night walk is conducted usually at nights after dinner for visitors to watch mammals such as cuscus, dorcopsis, bandicoot, and fruit bats.
There is a wooden house that is provided by the land owner for visitors to stay. There are mattresses, mosquito nets, and toilets. The guesthouse is not luxurious accommodation which visitors usually find in famous tourist destinations. But it is good enough for simple living in the forest.
Visitors need to bring camera with telephoto lens, binoculars, and spotting scope. When they go hiking, they will be able to observe, take pictures or videos of any wild animals that they see.
There are a lot of species of birds in Klaimis forest. Some of them include Palm Cockatoo, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Red-cheek Parrot, Large Fig Parrot, Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot, Black-capped Lory, Black Lory, Pinon Imperial Pigeon, Western-crowned Pigeon, Pink-spotted Fruit Dove, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Magnificent Riflebird, King Bird of Paradise, Northern Cassowary, Hooded Butcherbird, Dollarbird, Brahminy Kite, Variable Goshawk, Rufous Owl, Shining Flycatcher, Red-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, Sacred Kingfisher, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Azure Kingfisher, Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Lowland Peltop, and a lot more.
Staple food of local people is Sago. They usually eat it in the form of jellied sago that is mixed with fish or meat soup.
Sometimes women from the village go to the forest to extract sago starch from its tree trunk. First, they have to cut the tree, after that they will clean the fallen trunk, split it to expose its pith. Mothers will use simple axes to pulverize the pith.
They remove the pith little by little and knead it by hand using water from a nearby river to extract the sago starch.
Visitors can try pulverizing the pith or kneading the pith to squeeze out the starch. The starch that is collected in palm leaf containers will later be taken to the village to be consumed as staple food. The starch can be baked to make bread or boiled to make papeda.
Papuan women in villages, in general, manually weave pandanus leaves to make mattresses, and bags. They also use plant fibers to make string net bags which are locally called noken.
| To visit Klaimis forest for doing wildlife watching, visitors need to fly to Sorong city. After spending their wildlife tour in Klaimis, they could continue their trip to Raja Ampat. Also read: |
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