Komodo Island gives the national park its name, and for most visitors it means one thing: landing at Loh Liang and walking inland with a guide. What that walk involves is more variable than most...
Komodo Island gives the national park its name, and for most visitors it means one thing: landing at Loh Liang and walking inland with a guide. What that walk involves is more variable than most...
Padar is best known for the view from its ridge, where several curving bays come into view beneath the island’s steep hills. This guide is about the visit rather than the view. What the climb...
Komodo dragons live across several islands in Komodo National Park, but you cannot look for them wherever you like. Observation happens at a small number of designated sites, on marked routes...
Ask two operators for a three-day Komodo itinerary and you will get two documents that look similar but are not the same. The stops overlap, the order differs, and the wording makes it hard to tell...
Most people arrive in Labuan Bajo with a boat trip booked and treat the town as somewhere to sleep either side of it. That works until a trip is cancelled, a flight lands a day early, or the boat...
Labuan Bajo is the town almost every Komodo trip starts from, on the western tip of Flores. Getting there is straightforward, but it is rarely a single journey, and the part that catches people out...
Anyone researching a Komodo boat trip meets the word within about five minutes. Operators advertise phinisi trips, phinisi charters and phinisi cabins, usually without explaining what a phinisi is...
Choosing a boat trip in Komodo usually means choosing a company before you can see what you are buying. The boat is somewhere else, the trip is weeks away, and the decision rests on a quotation and a...