Jungle Dawn: Birdwatching in Munduk’s Cloud Forest

Made’s grandfather taught him bird calls before the alphabet, on the same forest paths you’ll walk. This is a before-light start into the Munduk cloud forest, where mist hangs in the clove trees and the dawn chorus builds like an orchestra tuning.

Expect barbets, sunbirds, flowerpeckers and — on good mornings — the Javan kingfisher that Made can usually summon by knowing exactly which perch it favours. It ends at his family’s farm with coffee grown fifty metres from your cup, roasted over a wood fire.