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Flores { 57 images } Created 18 Nov 2013

Photos from Flores taken in November 2011.
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  • A boy posing in a village after we stop somewhere before Nebe, just before driving further to Blawuk.
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  • Portrait of two girls in Moni, seen on the way up leading to the Kelimutu Craters.
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  • A girl with facial mask, seen on the way leading up to the Kelimutu Craters. Kelimutu National Park is known as a natural attraction, especially for its three coloured lakes.
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  • A boy, his mother and grandmother, seen on the way up leading to the Kelimutu Craters.
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  • Windmills made of softdrink cans, seen on the way down to Moni village.
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  • Portrait of a kid standing in a water ditch in Moni set in front of our guesthouse. Moni is closely located near Mount Kelimutu, a 1730m high volcano.
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  • Children posing in front of our guesthouse in Moni.
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  • You will pass near this waterfall on the way up to the Kelimutu craters.
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  • The black "Tiwu Ata Bupu" Lake, which means "Lake of old people" is located in Kelimutu National Park.
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  • Two of the three lakes in Kelimutu National Park. Behind you can see "Tiwu Nuwa Muri Koo Fai" (Lake of Young Men and Maidens) and "Tiwu Ata Polo" (Bewitched or Enchanted Lake) in the foreground.
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  • Huts and ricefields along the road leading to Boawae.
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  • Symmetrical stratovolcano Ebulobo, seen from the main road in Boawae.
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  • Portrait of two girls, taken in a restaurant in Boawae, just before driving further to Bajawa.
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  • View on the ricefields while we are driving between Boawae and Bajawa.
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  • View on the ricefields while we are driving between Boawae and Bajawa.
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  • Bena is a Ngada village famous for its traditional houses and the stone age builded megaliths. At the village you have a nice view on Inerie volcano.
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  • Boys selling mangos along a street leading to the Mengeruda hot springs at Soa.
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  • A woman buying fish in Aimere while we were leaving the guesthouse. Aimere is located in the Manggarai regency in the eastern part of Flores.
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  • On the way to Ruteng we stopped at a beach for swimming. After a moment we noticed some nice and  small bungalows along the beach. Minutes later we decided to stay there for one night.
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  • Fishermen standing in their boat close to Mbalata Beach set between Bajawa and Ruteng.
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  • The 2245m high Inerie volcano seen from Mbalata Beach.
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  • We stayed for one night at the Mbalata Beach Cottages & Eco Lodge.
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  • After one night at Mbalata beach we drove out heading Ruteng. In september 2003 a limestone cave called Liang Bua, located north of Ruteng, became very famous as a local man who was hired by archaologists discovered a skull during the archaeological excavations. <br />
According to "Wikipedia" Homo floresiensis was unveiled on 28 October 2004, and was swiftly nicknamed the "Hobbit", after the fictional race popularized in J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, and a proposed scientific name for the species was Homo hobbitus. It was initially placed in its own genus, Sundanthropus floresianus ("Sunda human from Flores"), but reviewers of the article felt that the cranium, despite its size, belonged in the genus Homo
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  • View over the ricefields and the forests along a <br />
street leading to Lake Ranamese.
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  • Lake Ranamese is located in East Manggarai and was originally a crater.
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  • While we were walking up on a viewpoint, to see the spider-web lingko fields, it started to rain heavily. This family kindly offered us shelter from the rain in their house.
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  • View over the round shaped (lingko) spider web rice fields from the top of a hill in Cancar.
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  • View over the forests, seen while driving from Cancar to Labuan Bajo
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  • Manta, seen while diving at Manta Point, a diving spot around Labuan Bajo.
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  • Diving around Pulau Tengah, a small island located near Rinca Island.
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  • Diving around Pulau Tengah, a small island located near Rinca Island.
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  • The Komodo dragon is generally found on Komodo and Rinca but you can also observe these huge lizards on Flores, Padar and other islands around Flores. Komodo National Park has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1991.
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  • The Komodo dragon can reach a length of 3m and a weight of 70kg. Young Komodo dragons usually hide on trees where they are safe from predators and from bigger cannibalistic Komodos.
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  • According to "Wikipedia" - Komodo dragons hunt and ambush prey including invertebrates, birds, and mammals. It has been claimed that they have a venomous bite; there are two glands in the lower jaw which secrete several toxic proteins. The biological significance of these proteins is disputed, but the glands have been shown to secrete an anticoagulant. Komodo dragon group behaviour in hunting is exceptional in the reptile world. The diet of big Komodo dragons mainly consists of deer, though they also eat considerable amounts of carrion. Komodo dragons also occasionally attack humans in the area of West Manggarai Regency where they live in Indonesia.
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  • As the Komodo dragons have no natural ennemies, you can approach the big lizards very closely. But when the dragons attack, they can run very fast for a short distance.
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  • Labuan Bajo is the westernmost famous town in Flores. Labuan Bajo is also the epicenter of tourism, from where you can start some nice dives around the island or book a trip to Komodo Island or Rinca Island.
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  • Snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • A fisherboat seen on Seraya Island, while walking to the fishermen village.
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  • Three girls posing in Seraya, just as i reached the fishermen village. Unfortunately i just noticed this village one day before departure.
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  • Mangroves, seen on the way back from the Fisherman village to our huts on Seraya Island.
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  • Clownfishes or Anemone fishes, swimming around a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Adult and juvenile clownfishes (Amphiprion ocellaris) swimming around a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Adult and juvenile clownfishes (Amphiprion ocellaris) swimming around a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Adult and juvenile clownfishes (Amphiprion ocellaris) swimming around a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Yellow clownfishes (Amphiprion sandaracinos) hiding into a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • According to "Wikipedia" - Clownfish and sea anemones have a symbiotic, mutualistic relationship, each providing a number of benefits to the other. The individual species are generally highly host specific, and especially the genera Heteractis and Stichodactyla, and the species Entacmaea quadricolor are frequent clownfish partners. The sea anemone protects the clownfish from predators, as well as providing food through the scraps left from the anemone's meals and occasional dead anemone tentacles. In return, the clownfish defends the anemone from its predators, and parasites. The anemone also picks up nutrients from the clownfish's excrement, and functions as a safe nest site.
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  • Seraya Island is located approximately 10km north of Labuan Bajo. Seraya Island is nice for relaxing and fabulous for snorkeling, the reef is only steps away from the beach huts.
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  • As there were only a few tourists on Seraya Island, we had each an own beach hut. Yes!!
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  • Two clownfishes, swimming around a sea anemone. Seen while snorkelling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • A white fish being cleaned by two Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus).Seen while snorkeling off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • Following a turtle with my camera, off the beach on Seraya Island.
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  • After three days on Seraya Island we were driven back to Labuan Bajo.
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  • According to "Wikipedia" - The local economy in the town is centered around the ferry port and tourism, local shops and restaurants, and the diving trade. Most of the foreign tourists are European, many from Italy, Australia and the United Kingdom. The wider area produces fish and palm oil; there is also a large amount of subsistence agriculture in the villages in the region where living standards are still low. Levels of poverty in the rural areas are high.
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