nusa tenggara

Flores

Volcanic ridges, weaving villages and the road east from Labuan Bajo.

Understand this place before you visit

The place

A long volcanic island stretching from Komodo's gateway to the Lamaholot east.

Dozens of language groups; weaving and farming communities in mountain villages.

Catholic practice woven with ancestral tradition; adat houses and clan structures.

Corn, cassava, sea fish, arak and Bajawa coffee.

Crater lakes, spider-web rice fields, cloud forest and coral coast.

Bena, Ngada, Flores

The village council's own guide walks you along Bena's spine of ancestral stones and explains which clan owns which platform.

Mixed 3h

Bajawa, Ngada, Flores

Yohanes hosts at the drying beds, where his group grades its own arabica instead of selling wet cherries to collectors.

Low tourist intensity 4h

Cancar, Ruteng, Manggarai

A Manggarai farmer walks you through lodok fields divided in rings from a single central post — land law you can see from a hill.

Mixed 3h

Bena

A Ngada village below Mount Inerie in Flores, built in two rows around megalithic stones and clan platforms.