Korina Hotel Bajawa
Jl A. Yani Bajawa, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
TravelPod Member ReviewsKorina Hotel Bajawa
“ok”
henniterness 18 contributions
Toronto, Canada
May 6, 2011
nothing to write home about. basic, simple, clean is relative.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelKorina Hotel Bajawa
Getting a blood test in Bajawa
It was a 7 hour bus journey on the local bus to Bajawa. It felt like longer and we were all very pleased to leave the bus and stretch our legs except maybe Jenny who had been making friends with the locals on the bus. We were pretty hungry after the journey as we had eaten nothing but biscuts for lunch and dinner was all we had energy for for the …
H&M fury, The Andorran and a new objective
We take a 'travelcar' from Labuan Bajo via Ruteng to Bajawa. That’s essentially a mini bus. I don’t do well with serpentines. When I manage to keep my eyes open, the scenery is suuuuuuper pretty. Impossibly green hills and thick jungle covered mountains, massive bamboos, palms and other large fairytale-like trees. Lushness all around. …
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... ferry to Timur. Better have not it ******, as they are departing
only twice a week..
Plan was crazy, rain was just about to fall,
island has high, even 2500m mountains, and it was 5pm, 1 hour before
it gets dark. But for me night was only time to do it, Adventure, you
know.
285 km took me 8 hours, in the fog, rain and darkness on
slippery, wet road and off roads, including filling petrol from
bottles ...
Lazy Lombok to Hunting Komodo Dragons in Flores!
... was literally like “stepping onto the set of Jurassic Park” as described by most travel guides. Epic. We also learnt that the BBC had been here last week filming for a new ‘Planet Earth’ series, and had camped-out with the dragons for 4 days… one to watch out for!
We trekked for about an hour and a half and saw double digits in figures of dragons - the most intimidating being a large male in our path walking towards us rather rapidly; the ...
Traditional villages
... looked recently burnt and I later learnt that people thought it had been burnt down on purpose as it had been a government building and it was close to some meetings that some people didn't agree with, or so I gathered across the language barrier anyway!! At the time I wasn't keen on Bajawa, I didn't feel very welcome by some of the locals and one man on a motorbike drove right past me and pushed me, not hard and it didn't hurt,just shook me a bit, another man saw and stopped to check ...


