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...
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...
Most of the decisions people make about a Komodo trip are about format: how long to go for, whether to share the boat, what kind of vessel to look for. The boat itself usually gets less attention...
Anyone comparing boat trips in Komodo runs into the same wall. One operator offers a Superior boat, another a Deluxe, a third a Standard phinisi, and a fourth a semi-phinisi. The words look like a...