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25 Nov 2009

The Komodo Ilands Tour




In 1910 the Dutch named the island on the south side of East Nusa Tenggara Province is the nickname of Komodo Island. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn va Hens Broek who tries to prove statements about the existence of the Dutch troops to resemble a dragon monster on the island.
Reports of his men about the giant lizard was not a mere figment. Steyn then killed one of the Komodo dragon and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be studied.
Enchantment of the beautiful island of Komodo island makes this worth a visit. The main attractions of this island is a close look at the only natural habitat of one of the ancient animals that survived for three hundred million years old.
Travel is stressful and exciting you'll meet even have to spend more in a bit, here are some alternative way to Komodo Island. Arriving in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara provincial capital, you can catch a plane to Ende, and the journey continued for ten hours by using a minibus into town Labuhanbajo which is the gateway to Komodo Island or the easiest option to reach Labuan Bajo area is to use a flight path of the airport Ngurai Rai Denpasar Bali (available 2-3 times a flight Denpasar-Labuan Bajo every day). Tourists can also use the flight route Kupang Labuan Bajo-flight service even though it is only available once a week....
There are also sea-lanes, ferry from Sape mengantarakan NTB ready to Labuanbajo or you can also use the ship from Port Sheet Pelni, Lombok (1st time in 2 weeks).

From Labuanbajo, located in the westernmost part of Flores Island is the journey continues to Komodo Island by speed boat about two hours. Each speed boat rental at the price of one million dollars left behind or you can use a wooden boat is cheaper, of course take a while.
To enter into the area every person charged 15 dollars for foreign tourists and 75 thousand dollars for the local tourists for three days.
On this island you are free to look closely the Komodo dragon, which is the largest lizard species in the world with an average body length reaches 3.13 meters and weighing 165 kg was reached at large.
In addition, you can also witness the various activities of these rare animals, such as the Komodo dragon marriages that occurred between May to August, the Komodo dragon eating deer, goats, pigs and see komodo bask in the streets and in the branches of trees in the morning.
In this animal Komodo live and breed well. And the most frightening threats are human beings, because human beings to hunt deer or wild boar, favorite food of this reptile. Now, on this island there was at least one thousand two hundred head of komodo. In addition to the P Komodo, tourists can find the Komodo dragon on the other islands are still covered in Komodo National Park area of the island of Rinca and Padar island, so that their overall number to about 2500 tails.

The island is a national park is also storing a variety of exotic flora Sepang timber that is used by people around As with medicine and clothing dye, or nitak tree Sterculia oblongata in believed to be useful as a drug and tasty and good seeds like peas.

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