Edelweis Hotel Bajawa

JL A. Yani Bajawa, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

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Housewarming, Flores-Style

A travel blog entry by jesshiggins

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When a guide who wants to be hired tells you he can take you a traditional ceremony that "hardly ever happens," you have to be skeptical. You ask yourself, Really?? Of all possible scenarios, this rare ceremony is happening ON THE VERY DAY we happen to be in Bajawa?

As it turns out, this time, the answer was yes. We've never hired a guide …

Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, Part II

A travel blog entry by kalischild

The world is like an explosion of emeralds this morning.

Flores has turned out to be indescribably beautiful. The island is on the other side of the Walker line from Lombok, which basically means it's an entirely different biosphere than Western Indonesia. The flora and fauna are more tropical, with ferns and bamboo exploding like lush …

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Flores

A travel blog entry by cimek

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... shop by midnight and eating fries when driving and
overtaking everything on the road. When I arrived it was 1 am. At the
last stage road become very bad, too bad as for big port town and
when I entered it everything was closed, town was dead. I could even
find a port and when finally found it, there was only a few small
boats docking around. Strange but no one to ask something, there was
almost 2 am. I forgot about hotel ...

Lazy Lombok to Hunting Komodo Dragons in Flores!

A travel blog entry by kaydeetravels

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... being a female protecting her nest; and the cutest being a baby-dragon in the trees as we finished. The babies are so difficult to spot as they climb in the trees and camouflage themselves until they are 3-4 years old. They must do this for protection as Komodo Dragons are carnivores and will happily eat their own babies… nice!

We did go off track a few times, either to get out of a dragons path or to try and spot some monkeys or buffalo (Safri was adamant ...

Traditional villages

A travel blog entry by curlywurly

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... ok and took his number plate, I decided to get out the following day and not bother with the villages as I didn't like the feeling I had of the place.

The next day I really struggled to get any information out of people about how to get anywhere,either the villages or simply to Moni, and the further I was getting the more useless my guidebook was, most of the maps were wrong and I hadn't found the people I'd met so far very helpful, I was beginning to think I'd be stuck ...