VOLCANIC, PRISTINE AND AUTHENTIC
This trip takes you through the most beautiful and culturally richest areas of Indonesia. Flores and Lombok are true paradises to discover the authentic rural life and to make beautiful walks and trekkings. Enjoy stunning vistas of the impressive and green volcanic landscape, get to know the hospitable people and their traditional ways of life, and end up on the paradisiacal beaches of Gili Meno and Gili Air.
TIPS & TOPS TRAVEL FLORES AND LOMBOK
- In the village of Moni on Flores, sarongs are still made in a traditional way using the ikat weaving technique
- 17 Islands National Park has a wide variety of beautiful fish and coral. Also look out for the huge flying dogs in the trees of the mangrove surrounding the islands
- In the many authentic villages in the highlands of Flores, you will be introduced to the Ngadha culture
- Next to Komodo is the smaller island of Rinca with green slopes, mangroves and beautiful beaches where the Komodo dragon lives, as well as monkeys, wild boar and deer
- It may happen that during your trip you will witness a traditional feast, wedding, funeral or agricultural ritual
- In the fertile environment of Tetebatu are plantations of chili peppers, tobacco, jackfruit and guava
- Tanjung Aan is the most beautiful beach in Lombok. In the two bays it is unprecedentedly quiet and you have the turquoise water and white beach all to yourself
- The Sasak live in small communities in a traditional way
- At the bustling Kebon Roek market in Mataram, vegetables, herbs, fish, meat and tobacco are traded every morning
- Just outside Mataram is the Temple Waktu Telu, a special complex where you can see the syncretism between Balinese Hinduism and the Islam of the island of Lombok
