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  1. Sunrise over Kelimutu

    Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 27 January 2012

    Up at 3:45 AM – man, that’s painful – and I had to practically drag Tony out of bed onto the floor to get him to wake up. (Getting Tony up that early is like waking a Tasmanian devil.) The last major activity on our tour was watching the sunrise over Mount Kelimutu, our second [...]

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  2. The Lio Tribe

    Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 25 January 2012

    Our latest foray into the tribal cultural of Flores was a visit to Wologai, a traditional Lionese village situated on a beautifully forested volcanic ridge an hour past Ende. (The topography of Flores is phenomenal.) Wologai is one of the few villages in the Ende district with well preserved Lionese art and architecture. Because of [...]

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  3. The multicoloured lakes of Kelimutu

    Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 18 December 2009

    Taxis don’t really exist in this part of Indonesia, which is how I found myself tearing up the side of a mountain on the back of a motorbike at 4am in pitch blackness, without a helmet, pointlessly racing three other motorbikes carrying similarly terrified foreigners round tight bends, and regularly having to slam on the [...]

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