Flores at a Glance
7 Days / 6 Nights
private tour - all inclusive
A seven day sightseeing tour to the Komodo National Park and across Flores. We visit the Island of Rinca with its huge Komodo Dragons. We explore the underwater world with its beautiful corals and colourful fish. During the overland tour we visit the Spiderweb Rice Fields, the monestery city of Ruteng, the monuntain town Bajawa, some traditional Megalith-Villages, the Three Crater Lakes of Mt. Kelimutu and finally Maumere in the east of Flores. Starting point is Labuan Bajo.
Itinerary
DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN LABUAN BAJO
Arrival from Bali in Labuan Bajo either in the morning or in the early afternoon. We will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to your hotel. If you like you can spend the rest of the day in your hotel or you explore the small city of Labuan Bajo by yourself. In the early evening introduction to the tour at the Flores Komodo Expedition office in the center of Labuan Bajo. Afterwards dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight in a standard hotel in the city with AC.
DAY 2: KOMODO NATIONAL PARK - RINCA
Pick up from your hotel in the morning and transfer to the harbour of Labuan Bajo. After you took your snorkeling equipment you get on the local, wooden buginese boat and travel along the coast to Rinca Island in the Komodo National Park. Many uniques picturesque small islands with white sandy beaches cross your way. Arrived at Rinca, the ranger who accompanies you during your trek on the island, is already waiting for you. He explains everything about the life and behaviour of the Komodo Dragons. Afterwards we take a short rest at the National Park Headquarter before we do snorkeling and sightseeing on the way back to Labuan Bajo. During this tour a lunch package will be served on the boat.
Overnight in a standard hotel in the city with AC.
DAY 3: LABUAN BAJO – RUTENG
Our Flores Komodo Expedition tour guide picks you up from your hotel In Labuan Bajo early in the morning. We drive overland through a beautiful scenery of mountains and valleys towards Ruteng.
At Cancar we explore the beautiful 
panorama of the spiderweb rice fields surrounded by green hills. Ruteng is a small town in the mountains. It has a chilly climate. If the weather allows, we go up to Golo Curu, the 'Welcome Mountain' of Ruteng. It is a beautiful vista point from where you have incredible views to Ruteng and the mountain range in the back and to thousands of spectacular terraced rice fields in the front.
Overnight in a guest house or in a monestry.
DAY 4: RUTENG – BAJAWA
Today we enjoy a diversified day. We travel up and down mountains, we reaches twice the coast line before we arrive at our destination the cultural city of Bajawa. 
Before Aimere - not to be confuesed with 'Almere' in the Netherlands - we have a short break to see the traditional way of burning 'Sopi', a hard liqueur made of palm tree sap.
Bajawa is a small and quiete town settled in a basin surrounded by high vulcanoes. This area is full of traditional culture and here you can find all the famous traditional Megalith-Villages. The city is located 1.200 meter above sea level. Excellent conditions to grow vegetables and herbs. During the night it could be very chilly.
Overnight in a small Standard Hotel or Guest House
DAY 5: BAJAWA - MONI / KELIMUTU
In the morning we head towards the south coast. Along the way to the most unique and obiviously best-preserved megalith village of Bena you will already see many more or less intact traditional villages. We approach the vulcano Mt. Inerie, a vulcano like in a picture book.It appears in its full size close infront of us. Bena is nestled at its food. We are almost sure, you have never seen such an impressive traditional village where the villagers still keep their habits and live their daily life.
Do you like to see another Megalith Village hidden away from the public? Then you shouldn't miss Guronsina.
We continue our Flores overland sightseeing tour to Moni. We travel on a scenic road from where you can enjoy the beautiful panorama of the landscape with its high mountains and deep valleys. Stops will be made at Mata Loko to visit the paraoke, a catholic seminary and the impressive building of the recreation and conference center for priests. Before Ende there is a unique beach with thousands of blue/green pebbles. One can find these type of stones only in this special small area of Indonesia. People from Bali and Java used to import them to beautify paths in their gardens or to make paving stones.
Overnight in a guest house at Moni
DAY 6: MONI – KELIMUTU – MAUMERE
Early morning at 4 o'clock or a litte bit later we drive up to the Kelimutu Volcano to see the Three Coloured Lakes. Upon arrival at the parking terrain we take a walk for about 1,5 kilometers and ascend 127 steps to the top. If the weather allows during this time of the year, we will enjoy the great view of Kelimutu’s light green, dark green and black lakes.
Afterwards we continue our trip to Wolowaru and explore its traditional houses. We also visit the village of Sikka on the south coast of Flores, once the seat of the king of East Flores. At Sikka one can find the oldest portuguese church of Flores. Find out how old ladies weave the traditional fabric, called Ikat.
Overnight at a Beach Resort
DAY 7: DEPARTURE or EXTENSION IN MAUMERE
After breakfast we deliver you to the airport for your flight to your next destination. It is also possible to extend your holiday in Maumere.
Itineray subject to change without any prior notice
Extension
EXTENSION
Depending on your available time you can extend your stay in Maumere for at least one or more days. There are many interesting things to explore. For instance the Ikat weaver and dance performing village of Dokar, the katholic seminary, the gypsy village upon the sea, Mt. Ebolo, a one day tour to Larantuka, the small city in East Flores and gateway to Lembata, known as the whale hunter island.
In case you just want to relax after your exciting tour across Flores, just relax on the beach.
Flores Komodo Expedition is pleased to organise your extension days. Just tell us your ideas and we send you an offer!
Transportation/Accommodation
Accommodation
In Labuan Bajo we choose small Standad hotels as the Gardena Hotel with air conditioned rooms and view to the Sea of the Komodo National Park with all the islands. if you like to get a better hotel on the beach apprx. two kilometers outside of the city you can upgrade the hotel for additional costs.
During the nights in the countryside we stay in good and clean guest houses, standard hotels or in a very modern monestry (small rooms).
In Maumere we stay in the Sea World Club, a nice beach resort, in air conditioned Garden Cottages. If you like to updrade to a beachfront cottage you can do it for additional costs.
All rooms have the bathroom ensuite.
Please note:
In the cities located at the mountains (Moni, Bajawa, Ruteng) there is no air condition available because during the night it is usually not hot. Contrarary it might be quiet chilly sometimes in the night or early morning. Please don`t forget to bring a warm jacket or suiter.
Difficulty of the trip
It is always hard to judge the difficulty of a trip. Distances between destinations are not far but it takes a lot of time to get from one place to the other because of the winding roads in the mountains. We try to make as much stops as possible during the day to make your journey comfortable. There are no long walks included in our itinerary. However our tour guide might suggest to do a short walk beyond our itinerary, if the time allows it.
Transport
You will be transported by a private car or minivan with air condition. The driver is also the tour guide, if we take our car or minivan. He speaks english. If we are more persons than 5 or 6 and we use a bigger minibus then we will have a driver and additional an english speaking tour guide.
Prices
PRICES
for the all inclusive tour
7.900.000 to 13.700 IDR (607 to 1,054 USD or 545 to 945 Euro) depending of the amount of travelers and the season
Prices are per person based on a double occupancy room
Single room supplement 1.500.000 IDR
Price includes:
* airport and harbour transfers
* boat cruise to Rinca Island
* snorkeling equipment
* ranger on Rinca
* National Park and entrance fees as: NP Tickets, tourism tax, other fees
* overland tour in an air conditioned car as per itinerary
* english speaking guide until day 6
Labuan Bajo and Maumere) with breakfast indonesian style
* meals: start from dinner on day 1 to dinner on day 6 lunch package on day 2
* one free drink(juice, soft drink or beer where beer is available) per meal
Not included in the price:
* flights and airport tax
* tips and donations
* National Park fee supplements for Sundays and National Holidays 100.000 IDR p.p.
* personal expenses
* extension days
Tags: Flores tours, sightseeing Flores
