Bajo Komodo Eco Lodge Flores

Moni is a very tiny village that is fairly basic. There are a few places to stay, and a few very basic restaurants. The place we stayed in had been described in Lonely Planet as a couple of ramshackle bungalows &#8211; but the owners replaced these a year or so ago with a decent block of 4 rooms so they rooms were still reasonably clean and tidy.<br><br>Going out for a meal requires an unusual amount of patience in Flores, and especially in Moni! You ...

W nice and early, we were packed and ready to go by 8.30. At 9am, our driver shows up in a fairly decent car. The bags are loaded into the car and we are ready to go, when the driver tells us we can choose to pay another 200,000rp (NZD$30) on top of the 120,000 we were already paying if we wanted to head off for Moni now. Otherwise, we would have to wait until we fill up the car with more passengers. (We took this to mean that they had to get a total ...

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... lores. <br><br>Nous rencontrons Ela, une australienne qui se joint a nous dans notre expédition. Le mot est choisi avec soin&#8230; en effet nous avons abandonné Kuta qui est bien trop touristique et bien trop cher a notre gout, pour espérer trouver mieux a l&#8217;Est. Nous nous sommes quelque peu fourvoyer ! Nous arrêtons les comparaisons avec l&#8217;inde qui n&#8217;était vraiment pas cher, toutes catégories confondues. Ici le souci qui se pose c ...

During the short 30 minute boat trip back from Gili islands to Lombok we got talking to some people and had to make a quick decision. We could head back to Bali as planned or we could head off on this amazing sounding 4 day boat trip that these people had just told us about. It was a very rushed decision and we were very unprepared with 2 dead camera batteries, one full memory card, no clean clothes and not enough cash to pay for the trip. Luckily all issues got ...

... we took a "shortcut" that wasnt! We did hike past villages &amp; fields &amp; our legs were aching by the time we reached Moni. We decided to repeat the experience on New Years day determined to find the real shortcut, but to no avail &amp; we even got lost in the Arboretum &amp; had to scramble through jungle to find the road &amp; another even longer "shortcut" but we did have amazing views all the way to the coast &amp; over ravines &amp; little villages ...

Get up early, walk on the beach, breakfast and to the airport, heading for Komodo natural reserve.The girl that came to meet us and get us to airport is very shy or very unfriendly, because she said absolutely nothing. Perhaps she does not like her job... We depart from Denpasar airport, where we meet a spanish couple from Madrid, Gustavo and Eva, who are going to share our days in Komodo with us. We ...

... on a motorbike and lasted about 2hrs before the bonejarring hillsides and crumbling roads proved too much. About to turn around and head back, the 'guide/random' I was with flagged down a car and asked (I found out later that he had begged) for me to join the couple who were inside. They said yes and I spent the next 4 days exploring and laughing in the company of the gorgeous Alex and Derbi. If your reaction is the sames as mine then you will need to for ...

... habitat*, watched numerous sunsetsd and sunrises with inumerable photo's,swam in lakes on desserted islands along with lots of other cool stuff. We ate like kings 3 meals a day. Fresh 5ft in some case fish were caught on route and filleted alive befopre being cooked a hour or two later for our tea. * The title of this Chapter was derrived from a pant wettingly funny incident where a Komodo dragon turned and moved toward Yunko who lept away ...

... fuer eine halbe Stunde im See, in dem es sich aufgrund des hohen Salzgehaltes herrlich treiben laesst; Fruehstueck am Boot und Weiterfahrt bis 17.30; Petra kaempft mit ihrer Seekrankheit, aber mitgebrachte Ingwerkapseln helfen ganz gut; kurzer Landgang auf der zu Sumbawa vorgelagerten kleinen Insel Sandonda vor Sonnenuntergang und Weiterfahrt bis zum Morgen des naechsten Tages 3. Tag Bootsfahrt 7.00 vor Anker vor der Insel Komodo; Landgang und Besuch des Komodo Nationalparks ...