LOMBOK ISLAND
Lombok Island has thousands of kilometers of beaches, and millions of square kilometers of water, making it a paradise for water sport enthusiasts of all the time. Pounding surf, still blue seas, unspoiled coral reefs, and deserted, unexplored islands create a superb environment for surfing, swimming, scuba diving, or just relaxing on the beach.
Lombok is still undiscovered paradise with lust tropical. Which will attract every heart with fascination. Some describe the island as only holiday resort where visitors may relax and recover. Plenty of glistening white sandy beaches are found on almost all of the entire island boundaries, but this is not all offer, the smaller island to the north namely Gili Air, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan and to the southwest is Gili Nanggu, Gili Gede, Gili Genting and many others only some of which are inhabited, provide a tropical island holiday featuring sun, sand, sea marine beauty. Swimming, snorkeling, and diving would be the best, or fishing? You just get the idea and all requirements are available.
The people of Lombok called Sasak, comprising 90 percent of the 3 million inhabitants of the island. Moslem is the dominant religion. The Balinese with their Hind, faith are mostly centred in the western part, therefore temples and shrines are available and the Balinese way of living prevails.
Lombok has successfully intensified its nice production, the introduction of “ dry rice “ cultivation or in Indonesia Bumi Gora Rancah ( Bumi Gora ). And most tropical fruits, which are freshened tasty, such as various kind, papaya, pineapple, banana and many others are grown and easily found in the island’s local market.
accomodation :
H. Radiah Home Stay
Lendang Nangka Masbagik, East Lombok
Phone: (0370) 22298
Reach, by public transfortation from Mandalika, about 2 hours.
We have 12 rooms.
,.,... situated, near ricefield. Very fresh
Rinjani Mountain, the third peak in Indonesia, with its Crater Lake Segara Anak provides an everlasting mountain attraction. The locals of Lombok frequently make rituals visit to Rinjani as it’s considered one of their sacred places. Segara Anak’s hot spring, the steamy Gua Susu, and Pancuran Emas” the golden fountain “ are some of the main spots where the locals perform their rituals. For mountain lovers, Rinjani is one of Lombok’s most beautiful sites.
The activities for tourists are also available on the island such as joining our daily tours, diving, surfing, water sports, rental cars, bikes, trekking to Mount Rinjani Trekking, and Mount Kelimutu. New Destinations to other islands ( Komodo Island, Flores island, Kelimutu, ) could be an interesting choice for those adventurous souls among you who prefer to mix the great outdoors with a little pampering. If you still have any other inquiries, please do not hesitate to discuss with us and therefore we could offer you optional solutions at the end.
NUSA TENGGARA
which comprise the island of Lombok, Sumbawa and hundreds smaller ones, is another destination of unspoilt paradise in Indonesia Lombok, the Island of virginity and natural beauty, accessible within 20 minutes flight from the International Gateway Ngurh Rai Airport of Bali or 2.50 Hours sailing by high speed passenger ferry from Benoa Harbour of Bali, and Sumbawa Island lies just across the Alas strait and is clear viewed from most of the eastern part of Lombok.
These island, Lombok and Sumbawa are little known in comparison with endless attraction of Bali the island of Gods. However, smart traveler have started turning their eyes glancing eastwards and surely there, awaits a pierce of Eden with its overwhelming charms and beauty. Simplicity and gentleness expresses among the warm and friendly smiles of the local : make for a hospitality and relaxing visit.
The appearance of these is striking. The entire surface is covered with rich fertile soils and elaborate system of irrigation is carried out from island to island. The province is home to some 4,3 million people , most are farmers cultivating rice and lots of vegetative plantation. The inhabitants are predominantly Moslem people, other who are adhere to Hindu faith live mostly in the western part of Lombok, and the rest follow Buddhism and Christianity. Religion remains an ever present and integral part of daily life and rituals is maintained, and the harmony amongst the believers allows for spiritual growth in the province.
THE WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Komodo National Park and Rinca Island.
Lying 200 nautical miles east of Bali, Komodo National Park nestles between the large islands of Sumbawa and Flores, all of which are part of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands.
This unique biosphere was born in the great volcanic uplift that formed Sumatra, Java, Bali and the islands lying eastward to Papua New Guinea. In 1928 the Dutch colonial government of the then Dutch East Indies formalized the nature reserve status originally conferred on Komodo in 1915 by the Raja of Biwa in neighboring Sumbawa. Indonesia decreed the area a national park in 1980, and in 1992 Komodo was declared a World Heritage Site.
Komodo National Park is located between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores in the Lesser Sunda Islands, at a distance of 200 nautical miles to the east of Bali. It has a total land area of 75,000 hectares and encompasses a number of islands, the largest of which are Komodo (34,000 hectares), Rinca (20,000 hectares), Padar, Nusa Kode, Motang, numerous smaller islands, and the Wae Wuul sanctuary on Flores. A total of 112,500 hectares of the surrounding waters are also under the jurisdiction of the park rangers.
Komodo National Park has the lowest annual rainfall in all of Indonesia, with an abbreviated rainy season in the month of January. For most of the year Komodo is dry and hot, parched by arid winds from the Australian desert that blow from April through October. Maximum temperatures reach 43 C, with minimums of 17 C in August.
Most of the Park is dry, rugged and hilly, a combination of ancient volcanic eruptions and more recent tectonic uplift of sedimentary seabeds. The irregular coastline is indented with rocky headlands and sandy bays, many framed by soaring volcanic cliffs.
Komodo island is 35km long and 15km wide, and is mountainous on a north to south axis, with an average altitude of 500-600m. The highest peak is Satalibo (735m) in the north. Most of the island is lontar palm savannah with remnates of rainforest and bamboo forest at higher elevations. On Rinca the land rises gradually from the north coast to a plateau that ends at Mount Dora (667m) in the south. The rugged south coast is very sheer as a result of volcanic activity in the distant past, as evidenced by the crater bay in which Nusa Kode nestles.
Komodo is unique in the world in having two distinct marine habitats - tropical and temperate - a few nautical miles distant from each other. There is a constant flow of the warm tropical waters of the Flores Sea to the north which mix with the cold upwellings brought from the south by the Indian Ocean. The upwellings are caused by deep ocean currents originating in Antarctica which collide with the volcanic shelf of Komodo and surface. The upwellings, combined with the oxygenation occasioned by the fierce currents surrounding Komodo, provide an endless supply of plankton and nutrients to the surrounding seas. This in turn, supports an amazing and colourful profusion of temperate marine life - invertebrate, mammal and fish. A few mile to the north lies an even greater multitude of tropical fish life that are normally found in equatorial waters. All in all, there are over 1000 species of fish and marine mammals found in the
Even WITHOUT a Dragon, Komodo and its surrounding islets would for me still remain a powerful symbol of that vanishing Garden of Eden deep within our collective memory . With its strange orchids, flying lizards, forests of giant fan palms and scarcity of man, it seems less like another Place than another Time. So remote is this tiny island that it wasn't until l911 that Varanus Komodoensis, its 10-foot long, running swimming, tree-climbing lizard, was described by science and revealed to the world as fact rather than myth.
Located at the edge-seam of the world, in no one continent and no one sea, the dragon islands of Komodo National Park are also surrounded by a furious moat For the Lesser Sunda archipelago, that thin chain of islands stretching east from Bali towards New Guinea, is also the grid which
divides the warm shallows of the South China seas, from the cool deeps of the Indian ocean. The ebb and flow between these opposing bodies of water produces not only the protective navigational hazard of tidal races and whirlpools, but also an astounding mixture of marine creatures of both warm and cold water, some species having no business to be anywhere near here at all, others found no where else, and many more constantly revealing themselves to be new to science. No less than fifteen different varieties of whales and dolphins have recently been observed here, from pods of shark-eating tropical Orcas, to the two-foot long, exuberantly acrobatic spinner dolphins.
Whereas the Dragon was only discovered in the first decade of this century, it wasn't until the l960's that it was properly surveyed and studied. In the 1970's it began receiving is first trickle of tourists, and only the l980's did its waters first begin being plumbed by SCUBA divers - and now, at the turn of the Millennium, just when we have started to see how mysteriously rich this region is, we find it under threat. The burgeoning population of Indonesia, the hunger for fish and meat, has brought dynamite and cyanide fisher bandits to Komodo's reefs, and marauding armed poachers seeking the wild deer and pig of the islands, which are the essential life support of the great lizard. Our last dragon, and its moat of marine mysteries, should be passed on, don't you think, to continue to remind future generations of our earliest beginnings and of that dwindling Garden of Eden within us all?
FLORES ISLAND
Flores island is one of the island on East Nusa Tenggara province. It stretches between the east longitudes of 118° and 125°, and between the latitudes of 8° and 11° south. The east Nusa Tenggara cover the area 49,880 sq km and it has a population of 3,500,000. Flores becomes one of the biggest island on the territory of East Nusa Tenggara or NTT which comprises 566 islands, including many smaller islands which are not in-habitated and unnamed. The three main islands are Flores, Sumba and Timor from which comes the term 'Flobamor', which has been familiar as one of the names of NTT.
Flores is the volcanic island and has unique and spectacular attractions. Mount Kelimutu has become a favourite destination, with its three crater lakes of different colours. Sumba is the island famous for its arts, handicrafts, particularly the textile weaving, and cultural assets. Timor, being the principal island with Kupang as its capital, serves as the centre of government and economic activities.
The other permanently inhabitated islands are Lembata, Adonara, Solor, Palue, Nules, Komodo, Rinca, Sumba, Sabu, Raijua, Rote, Semau, Alor and Pantar.
Roughly 57 percent of the territory is hilly with mountains rising to 2427m (Gunung Mutis) in Timor and 1792m (G. Kelimutu) in Flores. The mountains of East Nusa Tenggara are not as high as in West Nusa Tenggara where the highest mountain of all of Nusa Tenggara is G. Rinjani in Lombok (3726m).
Geologically, East Nusa Tenggara can be regarded as being divided into two zones:
a volcanic inner curve formed by the islands of Rinca, Komodo, Flores, Alor, Pantar, Adonara, Lembata and Solor, which have fertile soils; and
an outer curve of limestone and other rock formations, made up up of Sumba, Sabu, Rote, Semau and Timor.
Mount Kelimutu
The most famous tourist attraction in Flores is Kelimutu three coloured lakes in the district of Ende. These coloured lakes change colours on a regular basis. The latest colours (late 2004) were said to be turquoise, brown and black.
There is good snorkeling and diving on several locations along the north coast of Flores, most notably Maumere and Riung. However, due to the destructive practice of local fishermen using bombs to fish, and locals selling shells to tourists, combined with the after effects of a devastating tsunami in 1992, the reefs have slowly been destroyed.
Labuanbajo (on the western tip of Flores) is a town often used by tourists, from where they can visit Komodo and Rinca. Labuanbajo also attracts scuba divers, as whale sharks inhabit the waters around Labuanbajo.
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