Lombok Komodo Flores Island Travel Guide

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:: Lombok Island Travel Guide.
Lombok Island is part of West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It consists of three regencies and one municipality town. The regencies is West Lombok, Central Lombok and East Lombok. While the municipality town is Mataram. This small circular island on the east side of "Wallace's Line" is the home of Indonesia's second highest peak, Mount Rinjani, which stands at 3726 meters. Along the middle of the island runs a 30 kilometer wide green belt, transected by hundreds of streams and irrigation ducts. The rest of the island is relatively arid and featureless and the soil is less productive than that of the neighboring Bali.

The main urban centre of Lombok is made up of three combined cities, spreading on some nine kilometres length. Ampenan is the island's old port town where hundreds of colourful outrigger fishing boats line on the beach. Next is Mataram, the administrative centre, and Cakranegara, the main commercial town where shopping malls, super markets, and handicraft shops cater to every need.
The friendly people of Lombok include Sasak village, some still living in traditional villages with mud and thatch huts. The presence of Mt.Rinjani results in a variety of ecosystems, year-round rainforests (higher up and on southern slopes), ferns and tropical plant varieties. Traveling eastward and southward the land becomes drier and less fertile, and also the flora and fauna changes accordingly. Large parts of Lombok mainland are coastal wetlands, irrigated fields and other wetlands. Extensive dry land areas are found on the island of Lombok. Species of plants growing in Lombok have specific importance for the life of the people. Species of plants found in the forest are kesambi, bungur, sonokeling, mahoni (mahogany), jati (teak), kelicung, pala, ipil, bamboo, tutul etc. Wild animals found in Lombok are monkeys (silver leaf and black monkey), wild pigs (babi hutan ), small deer (menjangan), deer (kijang rusa), iguanas ( biawak), pocupines (landak), turtles (penyu) and many kinds of poisonous snakes. Many kinds of birds are found here including pring, parrots (kakatua), bering, koak koak, cucak rawa.

Lombok's people are 85% Sasak, culturally and linguistically closely related to the Balinese, but unlike Bali's Hindu they are Muslims. A notable non-orthodox Islamic group found only on Lombok are the Wektu Telu ("Three Prayers"), who as the name suggests pray only three times daily, instead of the five times required in the Quran.

Lombok Island is surrounded by hundreds of small islands, which are in local word called Gili. Some of these small islands now are very popular as tourist destinations. These small islands are such as Gili Air, Gili Meno, and Gili Trawangan at north and Gili Gede,Gili Nanggu and Gili Sulat at the south. As one of International tourists destination in Indonesia, Lombok Island has many other tourist’s objects, which can attract visitors to come. Culture, tradition and way of life of the local are other assets that enrich and support the existence of tourism.

Some tourism objects which are familiar to visit : Sindang Gila Waterfall, Bayumulek pottery village, Sukarare hand weaving village Narmada Summer palace, Mayura Water Palace, Lingsar unique temple, Senggigi beach, Kuta beach, Senaru traditional village Mount Rinjani National park and many more. The locations of these tourist objects are accessible and easy to reach.


:: Komodo Island Travel Guide.
Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed themselves with the Bugis from Sulawesi.

Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of the Komodo National Park and consists of over 550 islands but it is dominated by the three main island of Flores, Sumba and Timor. Nestled between eastern Sumbawa and western Flores lie three tiny grass covered islands Komodo, Padar and Rinca, which together form the Komodo National Park, a protected wildlife reservation. This is the home of the giants lizard known as the "Komodo Dragon". It was thought to be a myth until the turn of the century. Komodo National Park has the lowest annual rainfall in all of Indonesia, with an abbreviated rainy season in the month of January. For most of the year Komodo is dry and hot, parched by arid winds from the Australian desert that blow from April through October. Maximum temperatures reach 43 C, with minimums of 17 C in August.

Komodo National Park, the last remaining habitat of the world’s largest lizard, is one of the most unique and beautiful places on the planet. Consisting of island groups and their surrounding waters, the Park is widely recognized as an outstanding storehouse of globally significant terrestrial and marine biodiversity and, in acknowledgment of its immense value, was designated a Man and Biosphere Reserve in 1986 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991. The Park was established in 1980, originally to protect the Komodo Dragon, which occupies a unique position in the Park’s terrestrial ecosystem and has a high tourism value. This charismatic species has naturally become the flagship species for the Park. Today, the Park’s conservation goals have expanded to include the entire ecosystem, both marine and terrestrial. However, there is much more to Komodo National Park than the dragons. The Park lies at the heart of the Wallacea bio-region, a transitional zone between the terrestrial flora and fauna of the Asian and Australasian regions. This overlap between two distinct evolutionary eco-regions results in high levels of species richness, and the area is of immense importance for terrestrial conservation.

The oceans of Komodo National Park are equally important, and lie within an area known to scientists and conservationists as the Coral Triangle. This area, where the great Pacific and Indian Oceans converge, is the only equatorial region in the world where there is an exchange of flora and fauna between oceans. It is the heart of the world’s marine biodiversity, containing the richest coral diversity in the world and is home to many highly diverse and threatened marine habitats including fringing and patch coral reefs, mangrove forests, sea grass beds, sea mounts semi-enclosed bays and deep-water habitats.


:: Flores Island Travel Guide.
Flores Island is one of Island that located in South East Indonesia exactly on East Nusa Tenggara Province. Flores was well known since Portuguese colonized in 16 century. Portuguese gave the name ” Flower” it not real flower on the land but it was from the coral reefs that Portuguese found in front of Maumere bay when their boat was broken on their explore to east Flores.

Flores is main Island of East Nusa Tenggara province with some region from west to east part. This is one of the Island that 89% people are Catholic and the rest are Protestant, Muslim, and Hindu. Catholic and Protestant was influenced by Dutch colonial in the west part and by Portuguese in the east part. Although religion is hold but tradition is still strong hold by local people every regency around the Island. Some ceremony from old tradition is running well til now. This long island between Sumbawa and Timor is croeded with volcanoes and mountains and hilly makes the land is beautiful landscape. There is some mountain is still active and smoking, mostly the land is covered by savanna in the east part that why there is no much rain fall every year but in west part because covered with rain forest there is much rain every year. Mostly people is farmer and rest is fisherman and government office. Farmer has adapted to this condition since long time ago.

Flores is the volcanic island and has unique and spectacular attractions. Mount Kelimutu has become a favourite destination, with its three crater lakes of different colours. Sumba is the island famous for its arts, handicrafts, particularly the textile weaving, and cultural assets. Timor, being the principal island with Kupang as its capital, serves as the centre of government and economic activities. The other permanently inhabitated islands are Lembata, Adonara, Solor, Palue, Nules, Komodo, Rinca, Sumba, Sabu, Raijua, Rote, Semau, Alor and Pantar. Roughly 57 percent of the territory is hilly with mountains rising to 2427 m (Mount Mutis) in Timor and 1792 m (Mount Kelimutu) in Flores. The mountains of East Nusa Tenggara are not as high as in West Nusa Tenggara where the highest mountain of all of Nusa Tenggara is Mount Rinjani in Lombok (3726 m).

Mount Kelimutu is a small volcano with three summit crater lakes of different colors. Tiwi Ata Mbupu (Lake of Old People) is blue, and Tiwu Nua Muri Kooh Tai (Lake of Young Men and Maidens) and Tiwu Ata Polo (Bewitched Lake), which share a common crater wall, have historically been green- and red-colored. On this island also have many attraction on the Island such as : Bena traditional village, handwoven cloth, way of life, traditional ceremony, seventeen island Riung, traditional dance and so much more…

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