Pack your bags and explore Flores! Start your journey with us from Larantuka on the east side, passing by Maumere, Ende and Kelimutu National Park, Ruteng with its Spider Web village, then Labuan Bajo with Komodo Islands as international destinations. There are so many attractive spots on the island, and we hand-picked them for you to experience the best!

Pack your bags and explore Flores! Start your journey with us from Larantuka on the east side, passing by Maumere, Ende and Kelimutu National Park, Ruteng with its Spider Web village, then Labuan Bajo with Komodo Islands as international destinations. There are so many attractive spots on the island, and we hand-picked them for you to experience the best! Maumere wowed us with the first capsule hotel ever in the island, Hotel Benggoan II. Only with IDR 100K per night, you will get a capsule room, with a locked drawer for your belongings, electricity sockets inside the room, air conditioner, and 2 shared bathrooms with shower and sitting toilet! Even more amazing, you will get a free breakfast of local cuisines, complete with dessert. Once you are in the city, give a chance to the local street food. We tried gado-gado, a salad with cucumbers, assorted vegetables, fried tofu, and rice cake, topped with special peanut sauce. All for less than $1.
Next, heading to Kelimutu National Park. Kelimutu is a volcano, around 50 km to the east of Ende. It has three volcanic crater lakes that differ in colour, which changes following the difference of light and season. To enter the national park, the locals will have to pay IDR 5K. But, like many other tourism sites in Indonesia, the ticket is more pricey than the locals. It goes up to $20! Near the entrance of Kelimutu, you can find hot springs and the most beautiful rice fields. Making our way through a long and winding road, we finally arrived at Cara Village, west of Ruteng, with its unique eye-catcher rice field structure. Lingko is a round, spider-web structure of rice fields originating from the indigenous Manggarai Tribe. In the old times, the traditional leader and the authority over the land and also the rituals related to the agricultural cycle. With Lodok, the central house, as a starting point, the leader distributes the fields to different families depending on the family's size. A line will be drawn to the outer circle of the lingko, creating a pie segment. Over the years, these family fields are distributed as inheritance, cutting the "pie" into web-like structure. Labuan Bajo, being our last destination, has too much to cover in this video. Check out our Travel Series and discover the world with us!

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