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...
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...
Most people arrive at this decision with a fixed number of days in Indonesia and a question about how many to give Komodo. The two answers on offer are a day trip out of Labuan Bajo, or an overnight...
Almost everything worth seeing in Komodo National Park is reached by boat, and the first real decision most travellers face is which kind of boat trip to book. The two options you will see advertised...
"April to October" is a climatological average, not a fixed calendar. A month-by-month guide to conditions, seas, crowds and wildlife in Komodo National Park, and how to check the current seasonal...
Komodo National Park entrance fees are set as maximum tariffs by Indonesian regulation, not as fixed prices. What the official figures are, what the ticket covers, how permits and reservations work...