Adventure Walks & Bird Watching

Adventure Walks

Bougainville offers unparalleled trekking and walking for the keen visitor. Trekking is a great way to experience our wilderness and visit the more remote villages.

There are some undemanding trails just outside of Buka town but be sure to take a local guide with you. For more of a challenge, Central Bougainville boasts some of the best and intrepid trekking in the region. The Numanuma Track traverses rivers and volcanoes through thick jungle. Other challenges include trekking Mt. Balbi and Mt Bagana, and visiting their craters and lakes.

Be sure to prepare well as some treks can be very challenging. Contact one of our tour operators and service providers to arrange a trip.

Bird Watching

Bougainville is world renowned for its bird-watching, and boasts more bird species than mainland Papua New Guinea. Bougainville has a staggering 98 non-marine bird species, just waiting to be seen in their natural environment.

The moustached kingfisher (Actenoides bougainvillei) is endemic to Bougainville Island and extremely rare, with less than a thousand individuals left. Bougainville island is a great place to see many beautiful species of birds like the moustached kingfisher. For an extensive list of the birds species found in Bouaginville , check out Birds and Bird Lore of Bougainville and the North Solomons by Don Hadden.

Though many of these bird species are identified, there are some that still thwart the avid researcher’s attempt to identify them, including one bird that the locals call ‘Odidi.’ The name comes from its song which can be heard sometimes in the morning.