Sorong is the second largest and busiet city in Irian Jaya, just next to Jayapura as the provincial capital. It becomes Irian's business city for its fish canning, oil and gas mining and also pearl farming at Kabra Island. The most potential and interesting sightseeing around the most potential and interesting sightseeing around the twon is Kasuari Beach, townside forest and for Japanese and American veterans are the World War remains and monuments.

It is also one of the most accessible town in Irian Jaya. There are several direct flights from Jakarta, Ujung Padang, Denpasar,Manado and Ambon; all served by Merpati Nusantara, In addition there are some local flights from Jayapura, Biak and Manokwari. Pelni Lines with its passengers ships also sail to sorong twice a week connecting Irian Jaya to Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. There are several hotels in Sorong, including three and two star hotels.

The town of Sorong was once located on nearby Doom Island, in 1965. When town grew too large for the island, it shifted to the mainland. There are over 60000 people live in the urban area. The people mostly on fishing, farming and government-working as civil servants. 

Another beautiful sea garden in the  nothern part of Irian  Jaya is the Bay National Park, not far from Manokwari. To get to this park, Merpati flies once a week to Wasior Using Merpati twin-otter plane. Many tourists have tried to dive in the area and found it very interesting.

Besides sea garden, in the area you may also see many Irian typical birds as well as varied wild orchids. Wasior islands group include Anggrameos,Auri, Mapia and Raja Ampat which is also close to Sorong.

The Arfak Reserve (450 square kilometers ) lies in the north-east corner of the Irian Jaya Peninsula and just 25 kilometers away from Manokwari. The vegetation comprises lowland and hill forest has been selectively logged but it has retained much of its diversity. The reserve protects large numbers of endemic, rare and commercially important species. There are about 110 species of mammal may be found here, including thirty species of marsupial such as tree kangaroos, forest wallabies, bandicoots,possums and cuscus.

About half of the 320 bird species recorded for the reserve are endemic to Irian Jaya, and some of them are not known ourside the Arfak region. For birding this reserve is one of the heavens you may see in the island. Public transport is available then continue on foot to the reserve area.

During the Dutch colonization,  Manokwari became the capital of West New Guinea. Located at the northern part of the Irian mainland,  Manokwari lies on the beatiful surrounding gorges. The main interest around Manokwari includes Gunung Meja Park, from where you can view the scenery of Manokwari town, Amban Beach that only 5 kilometers from town and can be reached by public transports, beautiful Anggi Lake and Arfak Reserve.

There are four Merpati flights weekly from Jayapura and Biak to Manokwari using Fokker F27 and there flights a  week from Sorong. From Manokwari smaller flights are available to connect to Anggi, where the beautiful lake is, Fakfak, Nabire and Wasior.

Senggo is another sub district capital called Citak Mitak that also belongs to Merauke. Senggo is a small town of no car, no electricity, not even bike. This town is also one of the most isolated towns in Irian Jaya. Recently, there are only two flights a month depart from Merauke to Senggo.

A one-day boating to Basman, willl take to the so called tree house people, the Korowai Tribesmen. The Korowai and Kombai tribes build their houses on trees as high as 150 feet for a reason; ' to see the birds and the mountains and to keep sorcerers climbing the stairs.' Korowai is one of Irian Jaya's 250 indigenous tribes living in the swampy tract of forest. The nearest village to Senggo is Basman, where the tree house may not be  seen yet. The Kombai are neighbors of the Korowai. The two peoples' material culture, including tree houses, is nearly indentical, but their languages are very different. Both tribesmen were largely ignored by outsiders until 1977 when missionaries Johannes Veldhuizen, and later, Gerrit Van Enk arrived.

To visit Korowai and Kombai, it is highly recommended to hire an experienced guide through a tour operator. Only certain tour operators operating adventure trip to this area. The only way to get there in the meanwhile is by chartered flight either from Wamena or elsewhere to Senggo then the rest is all by canoe.