In 1910 the Dutch named the island on the south side of East Nusa Tenggara Province is nicknamed the Island of Komodo. This story begins with Lieutenant Steyn va Hens Broek who tries to prove statements about the presence of Dutch troops dragon looking like a monster on the island.
Reports of his men about the giant lizard was not the figment. Steyn then killed one of these dragons and bring documentation to the Museum and Botanical Garden in Bogor to be investigated.
The enchantment of the beautiful island of Komodo makes this island worth visiting. The main attraction of this island is a close look at the only natural habitat of one of ancient animals that survived for three hundred million years.
A tense and exciting journey you will meet despite having to spend more in a bit, here are some alternative way to Komodo Island. When he arrived in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara provincial capital, you can get on a plane headed Ende, and then continued during the ten-hour journey by using the minibus to the town Labuhanbajo which is the gateway to Komodo or the easiest option to reach Labuan Bajo area is the use of the airport flight path Ngurai Denpasar, Bali Rai (available 2-3 times a flight Denpasar-Labuan Bajo every day). Tourists can also use the flight route Kupang Labuan Bajo-flight service even though it is only available once a week.
Also ailable sea, ferry from Sape NTB ready to Labuanbajo or mengantarakan you can also use the ship Pelni from Sheet Harbour, Lombok (1st time in 2 weeks).
From Labuanbajo, a city located in the westernmost part of Flores Island is the journey continues to Komodo Island by speed boat for about two hours. Each speed boat rental at the price of one million rupiah home behind or you can use the cheaper timber ship, certainly take a while.
To get into the area every person charged 15 dollars for foreign tourists and 75 thousand rupiahs for local tourists for three days.
In this island you are free to look closely dragons are the largest lizard species in the world with an average body length reached 3.13 meters and weighing up to 165 kg is free to roam.
In addition, you can also watch the various activities of this rare animal, such as dragons mating occurs between May to August, the middle dragons eat deer, goats, pigs and watch the dragons bask in the street and in the branches of trees in the morning.
Komodo Island this animal live and breed well. And the most frightening threats are human beings, because human beings to hunt deer or wild boar, favorite food of this reptile. Now, on this island there are at least a thousand two hundred dragons. In addition to the P Komodo, tourists can find dragons on the other islands are still covered in the Komodo National Park which is the island of Rinca and Padar, so that their overall number to about 2500 individuals.
Island which became a national park was also stores a variety of exotic flora Sepang wood by local people used as medicine and dye clothes, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata in believe are useful as medicines and seeds and crispy and tasty as the peas.
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Komodo Island
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Abdullah Nouvel Syahbal
