Visit Flores Island, Komodo, Lembata and Alor Islands
Find out detail information about traveling in Flores
Island and neaby islands such as: Komodo, Lembata and Alor Islands...
 Flores
Islands
Flores island is one of main Lesser Sunda
islands or Nusa Tenggara Islands - islands streached on east of Bali...
Is Flores attractive? The answer is absolutely
YES...
If we have had 7 World Wonders, WTO should soon announces that there
are 2 more, one is in Flores and another one in Komodo islands.
 That
is Komodo Dragon - Varanus Komodoensis, the giant lizard,
2,50- 3.00 meters long and 1 meter high. These animals are easily found
in Komodo, Rinca, Padar and Flores on the west part. This is a pre historic
animal same age as dinosaurs.
Then another world wonder is The Three Colored
Lakes, Kelimutu. You will not find this at the other part of
the world. They are light turquoise, olive green and dark black. These
colors ever seen as red, blue and white in period 1900 - 1970. Once
was green, red and brown. YES, it is very beautiful.
 Flores
has many unique and spectacular tourist attractions. They are mountainous,
rivers, valleys, traditional villages, cultural dances, hand weaving
which has different color and motives in every area. We have at least
10 different types of fabrics.
Flores’ volcanoes invite travelers to climb or at
least to have pictures, its ocean attracts people to dive and snorkel.
Is that enough? No, visitors may visit the whole island
to experience the different way of life of the locals, some are very
similar to the south pacific type of people and some are very similar
to the Yunan or Thai people, YES the Miao or Meo people.
Cape of Flower
Flores is derived from the Portuguese word meaning “flowers”.
The story brings us back to 1544.
There was a Portuguese boat sailing from Jayakarta or Batavia
which is Jakarta today to Mollucas for spices purposes. They had a problem
with their boat caused some of the boat-men had to check the bottom
of the boat, but they stayed longer then it should be.
Finally, they reported to their Captain that the problem
has been fixed but they stayed longer because of the beauty of the sea
garden beneath the sea. They have found its colorful sea corals and
uncountable colorful fishes. The captain decided to dive and proved
it then named that island : Cabo da Flora, late become FLORES.
Flowers are not on the island, but under the sea, though we can find
a lot of flowers on this island.
Flores island is a remote and mountainous island lying
about 800km from Bali to the east. Today Flores is included in the East
Nusa Tenggara Province. They are in the process of having their own
province called FLORES Province.
Flores is a part of the immense chain that comprises the
archipelago of Indonesia. It is a long, narrow and rugged island marked
with dramatic volcanoes (12 volcanoes still active) and beautiful mountain
lakes (7 lakes) and forests. It has many endemic species of flora such
as rattan, bamboo groves, mosses, and many species of high-elevation
trees. Near sea level, monsoon forests dominated by thorny bamboo are
widespread.
At present there are 1.5 million people living in Flores
which 95% are Rome Catholic, 5% are Mosleem and Hindu. Christianity
was brought to Flores by Portuguese, who first established bases in
Solor, Larantuka and Sikka-Maumere.
HOW TO GET THERE
Flores is only 1 hour 20 minutes flight by FK-28 from Bali. There are
at least 3 cities can be reached by flight from BALI. They are: Maumere
on the north of the island, Ende on the south and Labuanbajo on the
west.
Denpasar - Maumere vv daily flight operated by Merpati
Nusantara Airlines, while Denpasar-Ende vv, 3 times in a week operated
by Merpati Nusantara Airlines. Denpasar-Labuanbajo vv, daily flight
operated Merpati Nusantara Airlines, Indonesia Air Transport, and Trans
Nusa.
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