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Visit the Komodo Island and meet the dragons

Pulau Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia. The island is particularly notable as the habitat of the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth, which is named after the island. Komodo Island has a surface area of 390 square kilometres and a human population of over two thousand. The people of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who have mixed with Bugis from Sulawesi. Komodo is part of the Lesser Sunda chain of islands and forms part of the Komodo National Park. In addition, the island is a popular destination for diving. Administratively, it is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province. The earliest stories (among Westerners) of a Dragon-like Animal existing in the region circulated widely and attracted considerable attention. But no Westerner visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores in East Nusa Tenggara about a mysterious creature. The creature was allegedly a dragon which inhabited a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (the main island of which is Flores).

The Dutch sailors reported that the creature measured up to seven metres (twenty-three feet) in length with a large body and mouth which constantly breathed fire. It burnt them and so they could not continue the investigation. It was believed then that the odd creature could fly. Hearing the reports, Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official of the Dutch Colonial Administration in Flores, planned a trip to Komodo Island to continue the search himself. He armed himself, and accompanied by a team of soldiers he landed on the island. After a few days, Hensbroek managed to kill one of the lizards to investigate. Van Hensbroek took the dragon to headquarters where measurements were taken. It was approximately 2.1 metres (6.9 feet) long, with a shape very similar to that of a lizard. More samples were then photographed by Peter A. Ouwens, the Director of the Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Java. The records that Ouwens made are the first reliable documentation of details about what is now called the Komodo dragon (or Komodo monitor).

Ouwens was keen to obtain additional samples. He recruited hunters who killed two dragons measuring 3.1 metres and 3.35 metres as well as capturing two pups, each measuring less than one metre. Ouwens carried out studies on the samples and concluded that the Komodo dragon was not a flame-thrower but was a type of monitor lizard. Research results were published in 1912. Ouwens named the giant lizard Varanus komodoensis. Realizing the significance of the dragons on Komodo Island as an endangered species, the Dutch government issued a regulation on the protection of the lizards on Komodo Island in 1915. The Komodo dragon became something of a living legend. In the decades since the Komodo was discovered, various scientific expeditions from a range of countries have carried out field research on the dragons on Komodo Island.

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We organize the trip of 04 Days / 03 Nights depart from Bali and return

*Price depends on airfares and the type of boat

Your brief Itinerary:

Day 01 : Denpasar - Labuhanbajo (by Morning Flight 1 hour and 30 Minutes) - kalong Island

Day 02 : kalong Island - Trekking at Komodo Island - Pink Beach - Rinca Island

Day 03 : Trekking at Rinca Island - Labuhan bajo

Day 04 : Flight back to Bali

This is one of the wooden Boat that we use for exploring Komodo Islands. Measurement : 22 Meters length, built on 2012 has 1 Large Air-conditioned Cabin for 8 People with 2 king size bed for 2 person each and 2 single bed, 1 Toilet / Bathroom. Has navigation system, radio and life jackets. Has 4 Crew include Captain sleep at their own Cabin. Depart from Labuanbajo. This Boat is often fully book

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Visit the Komodo Island and meet the dragons

*Price depends on airfares and the type of boat

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