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Indonesia (Flores, Rinca)

Welcome to Flores...
Where I met Jan and we hiked to Rinca
Night 1 - The rice paddy saviours




back on the trail

Finally looking down on Veloka after 2 long days at trail
where we caught a fisherman's boat across the channel to Rinca
Rinca - Home of the infamous man eating Komodo Dragons



Night 2 - Sunset from our campspot fortressed atop the highest mountain
Sunrise after a rough trade-off sleep/guard night
Off the coast of Rinca (the only shot in a beautiful panorama of 4 that wasn't accidentally erased)
Captain California - after success in spotting the dragon we return to Labuan Bajo and negotiate the USS Anaconda
and a couple of France interested in doing Rinca 'the easy way' (Jan, me, Celine, Laurent)
a guitar filled night back in Veloka

jamming and singing, despite his fingers being put on backwards

Market day in Veloka

Veloka market gang
nice smile







Back at Rinca this time we take dock at the Komodo National Park
the 'usual way' most people see the dragons
however no where near as fun as how we did it

Jan's journal
Shiste Slinger!
Say my goodbyes to Jan and continue on to Ruteng
where they are busy putting together the independence day celebrations


and where I taught the tourism school teachers a thing or two
a haven of Christianity in an otherwise Muslim land
the old church
school yard
hitched a ride in a truck
to the tourist object of Ranamase Lake
my motion sick 'guide' Hans readies to hurl out the window
Han's boarding house gang says goodbye (where I spent the night)
Torch parade in Borong
independence day tourny in Ende
Rice fields during my hike from Moni to Kelimutu
1 of 2
2 of 2




tin roofs enroute
The legend of Kelimutu
Kelimutu - A walk around the crater lip







sulphur sludge
The third lake, on the back side of the crater


waterfall on the way back
fisherman in Bodong