Labuan Bajo
Nearby Seraya Island may be a nice chance to try and do some diving and snorkel diving and each evening at Kalong Island thousands of megabat daft placed on a tremendous show.
By plane
The field Komodo is found a pair of kilometre out of city. The improvement in touristry has created the Ojeks and taxi drivers charge usurious rates. Hold your ground and somebody can take you and your significant baggage to the city for five,000 Rp. per person. If all else fails, it is a twenty minutes downhill walk.
Indonesia transport (IAT), Merpati Airlines [1], TransNusa [2] and Wings Air (Lionair) [3] all fly from Denpasar, providing virtually daily flights between them. Most flights still either Ende H. Hasan Aroeboesman field, Maumere Fransiskus Xaverius Seda field in japanese Flores or Kupang in West Timor. Sky Aviation [4] offer services originating in island and stopping on route in Lombok in each directions of travel.
The Labuan Bajo field [5] is tiny, with one short runway and a straightforward arrivals and departure space. For all flights you may ought to pay a domestic taxation of Rp eleven,000. do not expect to be able to get a price tag moment. although the planes are not full, the travel agents and price tag offices are not perpetually hospitable take your cash. There square measure agents out there - back in Labuan Bajo. There's alittle restaurant outside the field that serves drinks and snacks.
By boat
The port in Labuan Bajo is found within the city, and all over is reached at intervals a 5-10 minutes walk.
The ferry from Sape (Rp forty six,000) runs daily, and typically arrives around 14:00.
A number of firms organise four days/3 nights boat journeys from Lombok or island to Flores for around Rp one,550,000. You sleep on the deck on skinny mattresses (less than one in. thick, however you get accustomed it). regardless of wherever you book the trip from, you may be shuttled to the japanese coast of Lombok with bus/ferry transfers before ancient the boat.
The Perama tour [6] may be a well publicized trip running four days/3 nights from Lombok to Labuan Bajo, and three days/2 nights the opposite manner. This sets itself aside from the others by having non-public (2 person) cabins. costs square measure cabin/deck Rp a pair of,600,000/2,000,000 Lombok-Labuanbajo and Rp one,800,000/1,300,000 the opposite manner. bear in mind of the protection records of those boats
Pelni ships arrive from Makassar or Lombok.Pelni has 2 ships career on Labuanbajo each a pair of weeks. Tilongkbila departs for Bima, Lembar (Lombok, twenty four hr) and Benoa (Bali) each alternative Thursday and returns the subsequent Sunday to travel to Makassar and alternative destinations in island. Willis departs for Bima - Benoa - Surabaya each alternative weekday and returns weekday one week later to travel east to Marapokot and Maumere.
There is a automotive ferry running weekly (as of Gregorian calendar month 2012) between Labuanbajo and Bira in Southern island, feat Labuanbajo on Tuesdays and feat Bira on Sundays. The journey takes 2 nights and at some point, and has stops on the manner.
All the tour boats have identical program of snorkelling, trekking and giant lizard observance, stopping at identical gorgeous reefs, beaches and waterfalls on the manner. For years there are rumors of questions of safety on these boats. However, to this point of these rumors are simply that. There are, however, many that remark on the noise (on all boats), thus bring earplugs and do not expect any deep, pregnant conversations whereas the engine is running.
By bus
Buses from Ruteng and Bajawa stop and depart within the centre of city close to the varsity.
Get around
The city is sort of tiny and might simply be traversed on foot (in 10-15 minutes). Ojeks (Rp three,000-5,000) and bemos pass each five minutes if you get uninterested in walking. you'll rent a bike for Rp seventy five,000/per day.
See
Caves
Surrounding beaches
Island tours
Komodo Dragons
Seraya Kecil Island
Kanawa Island
Diving within the parkland
Do
Komodo parkland encompasses lots of water and islands west of Labuan bajo. If you wish to travel to Rinca or Komodo islands, or dive within the park you may need to get a three day park pass for US$15. cash from such user fees is collected by the government and is meant to travel into conservation efforts.
Rinca Island (Indonesian: Rinca Kecil or Pulau Rinca) may be a additional convenient place to envision Komodo Dragons than Komodo island. Some dive operators could be convinced to mix a stop at the island with a days diving - otherwise charters is organized, or walk on the most street of Labuan Bajo and a few tour agencies is also advertising places on associate degree existing charter. There square measure huge dragons that square measure usually right before of the pier once folks arrive. On arrival a guide can escort you to the park workplace wherever you may be eased of a spread of fees totalling ninety,000Rp, and guide fee of fifty,000Rp, then you'll select a one or a pair of hour hike. presumptively if you had a pass from Komodo, you'd be exempt from a minimum of a number of those fees.
Diving
The Komodo parkland supply dozens of terribly pristine dive sites, with several migratory pelagics, spirited reefs- creating it one in all the world’s richest marine habitats. The Park is found simply offshore and simply reached by liveaboard operators, though daytrips might take 2 hours or additional in every direction.
There square measure several dive operators that supply dive courses, fun dives and three day live aboards. they need mounted rating for fun dives at Rp 800,000 per day incl. 2 dives, full instrumentation and lunch (Rp a pair of,200,000 for three days). select one in all the newer dive centers for the latest instrumentation, one in all the older for the foremost expertise. All square measure quite safe and apprehend what they're doing, however, the currents around Komodo is quite robust, and don't seem to be for beginners.
Reefseekers. Friendly and skilled Scottish run Aqua-Lung look. costs square measure the quality Rp 800,000 for two dives together with lunch and instrumentation, discounts for multiple days. Fantastic marine biology lectures set this one apart. nice service also, and tiny teams.
Snorkelling
Labuan Bajo is that the most convenient purpose from that to travel snorkelling within the Komodo parkland. The snorkel diving within the park offers several opportunities to envision pristine reefs with a number of the best fish and coral diversity within the world.
Other
Seraya Island (Indonesian: Pulau Seraya) [7] is small over alittle, arid island outside of the Komodo parkland with a couple of bamboo huts for holidaymaker lodging, a edifice, and a few villagers World Health Organization let their goats graze on vegetation. The island’s cove is shielded from the ocean, providing calm and clear water for snorkelling. At low water the coral is exposed and native fishermen walk on the reef in search of prey. Rowboats is rented and brought to near islands for snorkelling and diving. confirm to run up to the highest of Capitol Hill behind the resorts and examine the sunset. The lodges on the island do have showers, however running water is simply out there a couple of hours every day.
Thousands of megabat daft emerge from Kalong Island at time of day
One of the additional spectacular displays of nature within the space is at Kalong Island (Indonesian: Pulau Kalong; additionally wheat Kalung), which accurately means that "Flying Fox Island." The name is sort of acceptable because the island is home to thousands of Kalong, or large megabat daft. Boats to Kalong is leased from Labuanbajo for around Rp three hundred,000 for a come back ride, together with a snorkelling stop at a close-by island before you reach Pulau Kalong. Your boat are going to be moored next to the Rhizophora mangle island and at time of day virtually tens of thousands of flying foxes emerge from the Rhizophora mangle island and give your boat towards Rinca Island. For the whole colony to emerge can take roughly twenty min of continuous waves of daft passing over your boat. The boat ride to/from Labuanbajo can take roughly one hour. This trip also can be prepackaged into a 1 day tour in conjunction with (for example) a visit of Rinca Island and a few snorkelling within the space. Anything can actually be done from Labuan Bajo.
