In order Convenient Travel to Komodo park

Komodo National Park is a beautiful tourist area in East Nusa Tenggara. Many travelers are familiar with this place from the island of Komodo. Ie, areas inhabited thousands of dragons. From year to year, thousands of tourists come to the island of Komodo. But actually Komodo National Park is not only the island of Komodo alone.




There are three other island filled with giant lizards, namely Pulau Rinca, Gili Mota, and the island of Nusa Kode. If you go there, here are 10 tips to see dragons in Komodo National Park.

1. Choose a departure from Labuan Bajo
Komodo National Park can be reached from two directions: Labuan Bajo, Flores or from Lombok. When you choose Lombok, mileage will take a day and night. While through Labuan Bajo just two hours. To go to Labuan Bajo, you can take a flight to Denpasar Ngurah Rai Airport, the airport continues to Komodo Labuan Bajo. The aircraft which flies it is Merpati Airlines. In normal flight, fare Jakarta-Denpasar-Labuan Bajo and conversely approximately USD 30.



2. Do not noisy at aircraft
From Ngurah Rai Airport, the plane was only a small ship with a capacity of no more than 100 passengers. Such Merpati Airlines plane that type MA 60 propeller. Why are provided a small boat? Because Komodo airport runway is not long. Only 1650 meters. Because the aircraft is not great, you should not talk to sound tight. Moreover guffaw. Because it would interfere with other passengers. If noisy, you might other passengers stared.

3. Book hotel before arriving in Labuan Bajo
Labuan Bajo Flores is not the center of tourist activity in the new build. Already dozens of years many tourists visited the city. The reason one, Labuan Bajo has a dock where boats to the island of Rinca and Komodo island off sauhnya. Therefore, a lot of hotels in Labuan Bajo, the rent of Rp 100 thousand per night were there. One decent rented accommodation is Chez Felix. This 14-room inn not far from the airport Komodo Labuan Bajo. The rental fee per night USD 200 thousand. That includes breakfast and free shuttle from and to the airport.

4. Find a travel agent to Komodo National Park
Along the road to the pier Labuan Bajo, there are dozens of travel agencies offering boat to the island of Komodo or Rinca. But you should not immediately agree with the price bid of the agent. Try to get into some stalls trips and compare travel costs. Usually they offer Rp 200 thousand to Rp 650 thousand per head. All for a trip to the island of Rinca and snorkeling. The only difference being in the ship facilities, lunch and snorkelling equipment.

5. Go to the toilet
Before entering the Komodo National Park, you better settle all the affairs of the stomach and a bathroom. Do not until you're dying for a pee big or small when it is on the island of Rinca. Because toilets are only checkpoint, namely at the entrance. If you had entered the woods, had to wait about an hour to climb over and go back to the initial post.

6. Always walk behind the ranger
Ranger or forest ranger is a person who will escort you through the forest for Rinca Island. Each ranger equip himself with a piece of wood with a branch at the end. The wood serves to hold the neck dragons suddenly came to attack. For that you should always run behind the forest guards.

7. No running or waving objects
During the jungle island of Rinca, you should not run. Although there are dragons come your way. The most accurate way is to walk away to the other side without causing any sudden movements. Stay calm. Then the dragons will not pursue you. There, you are also prohibited melampaikan any object, such as a hat. Because dragons see it as a swinging meat. He will run fast toward you.

8. Avoid coming months
Tourists will be banned from entering the women's Komodo National Park when she was menstruating or coming months. The reason is very keen sense of smell fishy dragons blood. If no women are menstruating, not the dragons to come over. But a lot. Because the wind carried the smell of blood was everywhere.

9. Avoid visits to the Park when the rainy season
To see the dragons, you are not walking on the ground is paved or cement. But through dense forests on the basis of soil and mud. Therefore, avoid visiting Komodo dragon habitat during the rainy season. Because climbing routes will be very muddy and slippery

10. A time to stop at the Goat Island
In order to travel to the Park more fully, before returning to Labuan Bajo you should pull over first on Goat Island. Broadly, the island is very small. Consists only of the beach and a short hill. But the color of coral in there quite diverse. And when dusk, you not only can see the sunset alone. There are also views of tens of thousands of bats leave the nest. Suddenly the sky is full of dark red fruit-eating animals. Awesome.