Moni Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Moni is 53km northeast of Ende and 98km west of Maumere. For Ende (14, 000Rp, two hours), buses start at around 7am, and there’s a bus all the way to Labuanbajo at noon. Many additional buses and trucks leave on Monday, Moni’s market day.

For Maumere (23, 000Rp, three hours), the first buses from Ende start coming through at around 9am or 10am and then later in the evening at around 7pm.

As most of the buses stop midroute in Moni they can be crowded, and it’s first come, first served for a seat. Sometimes you’ll be sitting in the aisle on a sack of rice or even on a pig if you’re lucky. Some of the homestays make ‘bookings’, which usually means they will hail a bus for you and charge you extra.