Rima Hotel Ruteng
Jalan Ahmed Yani Ruteng, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
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Happy Christmas
Woke up Christmas morning on Seraya Island but it was time to head onwards so we took the daily boat back to Labuan Bajo. As expected being Christmas Day there was no public buses - Flores is overwhelmingly Catholic & Christmas is a holiday in Indonesia. We tried to find private transport, as if there is one thing you are constantly offered in …
Ruteng
Arrived in the city of Ruteng in Flores yesterday evening. Got a room in the Rima hotel which looks a little bit like a swiss cottage. The walls seem to be so thin, that you think the other people are in your bathroom or will break through the ceiling at any moment. For 100000rp it's ok, although I should've taken the room for 75000rp with the …
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Traditional villages
... one left at 7) with the finally open tourist information I also sorted an ojek driver for that day. We went to see several traditional ngada villages in the mountains. Basically there are two rows of really basic huts around a central area where they also have graves and some big stone monuments for their dead, as well as pairs of ngadhu and bhaga (male and female structures to commemorate ancestors) all the villages are set in the mountain. They're really impressive to look at and ...
Bus journeys and teaching English!
... taxis are that they pick you up and drop you off exactly where you want to go, the drawback is that they don't leave until full (Indonesian full means literally can't squeeze more people in if they tried), so we spent the next half an hour circling town to pick up more passengers. Finally we had 9 adults and a child plus the driver in a people carrier meant for 7 we were ready to set off! It was an interesting journey, I had an older lady who seemed to think nothing ...
Stomach Turning Road Trippin'
... mattresses are made), as well as angel's trumpet in full bloom, everywhere. That was just what we saw from the car windows and no doubt there are thousands of different species we didn't even know about.
Partway into our drive, Gabriel stopped at the side of the road so we could visit an arak distillery. Arak is the local liquor bottled and sold everywhere. It looks like watered down gasoline and is highly flammable. It's made from a certain palm ...


