Posts Tagged ‘Komodo’
The literally meaning of Flores is flowers. Perhaps because of the beauty alamlah that makes the name stuck until today. In fact, nature is beautiful and unique Flores. This area has many attractions to visit.
1. Komodo
It could be said Floires identical with ancient animals dragons. Can be seen on the island of Komodo, Rinca, and Padar. Spread until Riung Island, Bajawa.
2. Pink Coral
Among divers, the world, Flores (West Manggarai regency), known for its underwater beauty, especially the pink coral. Coral pink has become a place of unique marine animal life. Fractions koralnya brought to shore, until the surrounding sand pink. That’s why the beaches in this area is called Pink Beach. Unique, beautiful, and still maintained its authenticity.
3. Hobbit
In Ruteng, Flores, there are human settlements inhabited dwarf or hobbit. The existence of this tribe surprised the researchers, and then linked with an existing tribe of hobbits in the story Lord of the Ring. The inhabitants of this tribe is small, less than one meter. However, now grown to be about 1.2 meters (most high) has occurred because of mixed marriages with other tribes. Read the rest of this entry »
Seven wonders of the world is held again by using the system idol. That is, the winner is based on majority voting. One of them by entering the dragon as one of the nominations.
There are five reasons to choose the dragons on the site new7wonders.com:
1. The researchers called the dragon as an ancient animal remains. Animals ins into the category of giant lizards. However, there are studies linking the likelihood of the relationship dragons to dinosaurs that are extinct.
2. Komodo is a difficult animal alive when taken out of their natural habitat. In ulau Komodo and surroundings, the giant lizard is still awake keliaannya. They hunt alone other animals to be used as prey.
3. Komodo is an endemic animal found only on Komodo Island and its surrounding areas. Based on some dragon fossils found in Ausralia, researchers memerkirakan occur habitat displacement from Australia to Komodo Island and its surrounding areas thousands of years ago. From then until now, dragons only exist in Indonesia. Read the rest of this entry »
Komodo National Park lies between the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara in the coordinates 119 º 09 ‘00 “- 119 º 55′ 00″ BT and 8 º 20 ‘00 “- 8 º 53′ 00″ S, consists of three large islands of Komodo Island , Rinca, and Padar Island and several small islands. National park land territory is 603 km ² and the total area is 1817 km ². In the administrative area in TN Komodo Komodo subdistrict, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province.
Access: To get to the komodo dive sites can be reached by Liveaboard from Bali, but will cost quite a lot. Can also be achieved by a flight from Bali to Labuan Bajo and then continued by using a boat trip to Komodo. Live Aboard from Labuan Bajo also available for those who want it. Lodging is widely available in Labuan Bajo with the price and facilities vary widely. Read the rest of this entry »