Nature SpotKomodo National Park

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AndrewPo (43)

80%

excellent

Komodo National Park is a fascinating place, with baron, desolate features and the rare, slow lumbering giant lizards that most people come here to see. These endangered animals live on a small group of islands between Sumbawa and Flores in the Indonesian archipelago.

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"Must See"-Factor
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Budget Friendliness
Flores, the biggest of the islands that the lizards inhabit, has an airport, with flights from Bali, is small planes, which take several hours to get there and tend to have a slightly unreliable service, so you need to allow several days for a trip to Komodo. The biggest island in the National park is Komodo, but Rinca also has a large number of "dragons", so both of these fairly large islands should be visited.

Boats can be booked from Flores to the National park. I hired a boat and driver for two days, and slept on the boat, moored off Komodo Island. These huge monitor lizards only live here, and although there are other big monitors elsewhere in the world, none as impressive as these ten foot long powerful beasts, especially when viewed on these desolate prehistoric islands.