For most of us, Indonesia, above all, is associated with Bali - a fashionable resort with an unearthly beauty of nature. But there are a lot of amazing islands in this state that are famous for their unique flora and fauna.

Among them Komodo is especially notable, which along with other land areas is included in the National Nature Park with the same name, occupying not only six hundred square kilometers of land, but also a significant part of the coastal water area, which is home to slightly less than half of all species of ocean inhabitants. This park was founded more than thirty years ago and is under the auspices of UNESCO.

But the main thing is that on Komodo and today the descendants of prehistoric lizards live - huge monsters that appeared here about two hundred million years ago, in the Jurassic period.
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Content

  • 1 How to get
    • 1.1 Air ticket search to the city of Jakarta (nearest a / n to Komodo)
    • 1.2 Legend and life
  • 2 Infrastructure
  • 3 Nature Komodo
  • 4 Varans with Komodo
  • 5 Features of recreation at Komodo
    • 5.1 Komodo Island

How to get here

You can get here from the nearby large island of Flores, where there is a small airport. There you can be offered both an organized sightseeing tour on Komodo, worth about six hundred US dollars, and a simple transfer by boat for about one hundred and fifty dollars per person.

Search for airline tickets to the city of Jakarta (nearest a / n to Komodo)

Legend and profit

holy lie - it is never an artistic metaphor, and the most that neither is the true story of the discovery of zoological pride of Indonesia - Komodo dragon island . One foggy morning at the dawn of the 20th century Dutch pilot Hendrik van Bosse went to the floor t from Java on one of the islands . sudden gust tropical storm picked up a light aircraft and hurled it into the raging ocean, fortunately, not far from an uninhabited island, where the pilot miraculously managed to escape . When he came to and looked around, as Herr Hendrik and froze in amazement: he marched straight to a bizarre dragon does not mean, however, cause any harm rescued . whole year pilot held on the island in the company of a couple of hundreds of giant lizards (one of which, they say, Hendrik called Friday), after what ck onstruiroval raft and left it in the civilized world, in which the trouble is that no one believed the tales clouded reason Robinson . And then the pilot went to the trick: he was praising the island zhivopisuya downright paradise, ragweed river and naked houris . greedy mankind is bound to follow in this earthly paradise . and see firsthand the existence of fantastic dragons . way, about Kusch Hendrik does not palter: ask any tourist who visited Indonesia .

Infrastructure

At Flores also there is a beach hotel consisting of several bungalows. There is also a small restaurant, its dishes are simple, but no less delicious, dinner for one person will not cost more than twenty dollars.

Nature Komodo

For the inhabitants of the continents, rumors about these unseen beasts - lizards - seemed so implausible and even ridiculous that only when, at the dawn of the 20th century, one pilot accidentally flew here brought the Buten- zorgsky botanical garden of the skins of these "Komod dragons" for research, the world community believed in their existence.

Komodo island varians average about seventy kilograms, in conditions of reserves they can be much larger. The largest monitor that we managed to see weighed more than one and a half centners, and its length was three meters

Varans from Komodo

Locals, who on the island are about two thousand, very revere these inhabitants and still believe in a fantastic the legend that the princess of the serpent gave birth not only to man, but also to the first monitor, the female Ora, bequeathed to her son-man to treat Ora as an equal. Since then, these huge lizards feel completely safe and quite calm about the presence of numerous tourists.

True, the last one should be more cautious, because the lizards are predators after all, although they mostly hunt reindeer and wild boars with which the island is also full. They attack the victim, leaving her with ragged wounds poisoned by a specific poison, and when she dies - calmly begin to eat.

However, Indonesians try to feed lizards to ensure the safety of tourists.

The main thing to remember is that these animals, like sharks, are able to smell blood smell at a sufficiently large distance (up to five kilometers), so having open wounds, it is better to refrain from visiting the island for some time.

In general, many people come here just to see for themselves how the Varan hunts or, more interestingly, finds out the relationship with another representative of its kind. This is indeed a rare and exciting spectacle, the audience of which can only become the most cautious and patient tourists. But the vast majority of the time, the Komodo dragons are walking about the island, generously allowing themselves to take photos.

It is worth noting that Komodo has that to photograph - overgrown with green grass and shrubs hills close to the azure waters of the Pacific, whole groves of cotton trees, the fruits of which to urban residents are not difficult to confuse with bananas, dozens of species of unique tropical birds, butterflies and snails.
Views of Komodo

Features of rest on Komodo

Also on the island there are unusually friendly, smiling people, whose main occupation is fishing and, naturally, tourism. They are all concentrated around their small village almost on the coast, and rarely when they move deeper into the island especially alone. Moreover, all the houses are exclusively on piles, because only in this way can you protect your home from the ubiquitous "land crocodiles."

There are no hotels, no cafes, no supermarkets. Even electricity in these parts is very rare, it appears only for several hours a day thanks to a single diesel generator.

Nevertheless, on the island, especially in places where boats and boats with tourists dock, there are kind of souvenir shops where local residents, called both old and young, sell beads of handwork, pearls or even claws of dragons.

Going to the island of Komodo, it is desirable to take a minimum of clothes and a maximum of essentials, because there are no stores here. There is also no mobile communication on the island. And remember, if you went to the island for just one day, try to start back the way as soon as possible, because it's getting dark here very sharply, and to swim in the impenetrable darkness is not very comfortable, even if the helm and an experienced local resident. Photos of Komodo (8)