Flores Overland Tour

Day 1: Maumere-Moni

1. Koka Beach
   Pass by
   1. Guide and driver pick you up from Maumere and drive to Moni.
   2. You will drive to Moni with a stop at Lepo Lorun Ikat weaving
   3. You will learn how to process weaving from very beginning which all the materials are taken from nature.
   4. After Ikat weaving, you will drive to Koka beach.
   5. In Koka beach you will enjoy playing on the beach and swim. You make sure have your swimming suit with you and enable to swimm as the wave is quiet strong.
   6. While you enjoy swimming, we will prepare for you seafood which is totally fresh. Seafood is something famous from Flores as the island is surrounded by sea.
2. Moni
   12h
   1. After enjoying yourself at Koka beach, you will drive to Moni which takes less than 2 hours.
   2. Moni is small town located under Kelimutu cratered lakes. It is a last town for travelers who want to go to Kelimutu. while staying in Moni, you can also visit waterfall and visit local cultivation. Moni is well-known with its fruits and vegetables, they can be easily get when shopping in its traditional market called Ndua Ria. As it is volcanic soil, no wonder fruits and vegetable are easily growing in moni.
   3. You will have dinner and overnight in the only highly recommended stay called Kelimutu Echo lodge. it is located by the river with a view of rice field and far from busy town.

Day 2: Moni-Bajawa

1. Kelimutu Lake (Tri-Color Lake)
   Pass by
   1. You will wake up at 4 am to proceed to the base of Kelimtu which takes less than an hour. Make sure to have with you walking shoes, trousers, jacket, and rain coat (in case of rain). The track has been properly constructed for walkers with about 300 stairs. From the base to the summit takes you about 30 minutes walk with the steepest one at the last point which only takes 5 minutes.
   2. Catching for sunrise is highly recommended that you may have great view of the cratered lakes combined a sunshine appeared behind the clouds with a panorama of mountains surrounding the area. Even though, sunrise is not always guaranteed but worth the view.
   3. While you are at the summit of Kelimutu, you also will be served some drinks from local Moni villagers who engagingly accompany your stay, they also willingly tell story of how they see Kelimutu from locals' perspective. more than that, while staying on the summit you will be provided with some scientific information about the lake that makes your wait valuable.
   4. after enjoying the view, you will be back to the base and drive back to hotel for breakfast and shower. indeed, fruits at the echo lodge have been prepared.
2. Blue Stone Beach
   1h · Admission ticket included
   1. After leaving from Moni, you will drive to Blue Stone Beach which takes about 2 and half hours via Ende.
   2. You will stop for most unique beach in Flores called Blue Stone Beach. A beach fully fulfilled with blue stones from volcanic irruption thousand of years ago.
   3. Another thing that you cannot miss is its fresh seafood. After playing around the beach, you will be served some seafood andsome juicesprovided in local restaurant runned by locals.
3. Mengeruda Hot Spring
   1h · Admission ticket included
   One of our favorite places to visit is Mengeruda Hot Spring. Located in the North part of Bajawa in the small town called Soa. It is a natural hot spring that you can swim in it which has been facilitated in some swimming pools. You also are able to swim and play around the water where the hot water mixes with warm water added with small waterfall where you can put your body to be massaged naturally.
   
   It is about 45 to 50 degree Celsius in the place where the spring appears and about 40 degree Celcius at the river.
4. Manulalu Panorama
   1 day · Admission ticket included
   The show of the day is not yet finished. Driving for an hour from Soa, you will be going to the place called Heaven's door. Yes, it is where chi metrical mountain Inerie, sea, landscapes, and unique traditional villages are featured. You will end up the tour of day 2 in Manulalu in its unique bungalow setting just underneath Inerie.

Day 3: Bajawa-Ruteng

1. Bena Traditional Village
   Pass by
   1. We will make sure you will have magnificent time to enjoy the atmosphere of Manulalu by leaving at 9 am.
   2. You will visit the biggest and the oldest traditional village in flores called Bena Traditional Village belongs to Bajawa tribe.
   3. In Bena you will see unique Traditional houses that differ for man and women.
   4. In here you will also witness locals' activities that mainly rely much on their environment for survival. Besides farmer, they do weaving and carving to support their lives.
2. 1h
   The next stop after Bena is Aimere. A small town located in the south part of Bajawa where Arak wine is processed traditionally. As Flores is well known for its Arak, almost each regency has they typical Arak or in Flores called "Sopi". Aimere is one of the biggest center of distillation of Arak. In here, you will see how the process from beginning like juice to become Arak from small percentage of 15 % to 50%. Almost all the people in thi area rely much on Arak as their main income because Arak in Flores is one of the biggest parts to be possessed when having small or big ceremony.
   
   You will have lunch in Wae Lengga, 10 minutes fro AImere.
3. Traditional Market Ruteng
   18h · Admission ticket included
   A mountain city Ruteng is great city for stopover. As a home and center of Economic city of Manggarai, Ruteng is where all the farmers bring their corps for sale. Of course you will be able to see this when visit its traditional market which is open from 6 am to 7 pm. In here, you will have a look of any variety of tropical fruits,
   bulbs, herbs and spices, and a lot more.

Day 4: Ruteng-Dintor

1. Ruteng
   2h
   1. For coffee lovers, Ruteng with its Coffee Manggarai that was awarded a one of the best coffee in the world in France 2018, you can visit its home industry where you may have look how they process and pack it home. As this community work, you can directly support local economic as they they really do to have valuable sale for farmers.
   2. After coffee, you may have look at where they grow it and take walking tour on paddy fields that located on the outscirt of the big city Ruteng. This activity will allow you to experience the local's wisdom adn culture especially in cultivating.
2. Ruteng
   20m
   After walking around the paddy fields, you will leave for Cancar to see the spider web rice field. A very unique way of distributing paddy field among the families in the community. In here, you will walk for 5 minutes to the hill where you can spot the view. It is definitely worth the visit. Afterward, you will drive to the South coast where it is the last stop before trekking to Wae Rebo Traditional village.

Day 5: Dintor-Wae Rebo

1. Wae Rebo Village
   1h · Admission ticket included
   you will leave after breakfast to drive to Denge, a last village before trekking to Wae Rebo. From Denge, you will get on motorbike to post 1 and fthen trek for 5 km along the mountain. The trek requires you to wear proper trekking shoes. In Wae Rebo, you will find follow a ritual Wae Lu'u as welcoming ceremony and the same time requesting permission from the ancestors so that all activities carried out are not interrupted. After the traditional ceremony, you will go to one of the traditional houses for lunch. You will enjoy the beauty of the Manggarai traditional village and also the amazing local wisdom. In the afternoon, you can enjoy cold mountain water before dinner and overnight at one of Wae Rebo's traditional houses.

Day 6: Wae Rebo-Labuan Bajo

1. Labuan Bajo
   12h
   You will leave from Wae Rebo for Labuan Bajo with a stop at Wae Rebo Lodge, Dintor for lunch and shower. Afterwards, you will drive for about 4 hours to Labuan Bajo. It is the city located in the Western part of Flores. A city that is main access to Komodo National Park. As one of the developed cities, Labuan Bajo will attract you the amazing atmosphere of its sea view. you also will be provided with some nice beaches runned by some resorts and hotels.

Pickup details

Since the airport in Maumere is open again after months of close, we are so delighted to inform you that we will pick all travelers from Maumere. We will keep you updated if any changes regarding the pickup locations.

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness