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Flores & Komodo: Route Guide

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Padar Island's three-bay lookout
Photo: Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Begin with a separately booked full-day boat and ranger visit from Labuan Bajo into Komodo National Park, then cross Flores overland through Manggarai rice fields and Ngada cultural landscapes to Ende’s independence history and Kelimutu’s crater lakes.

Flores & Komodo is a 470 km one-way journey (with a driver). It works best as 6–7 days; the plan below is the 7-day version for August, built from 98 verified places, with planned transit times, opening hours and daylight checked.

6–7
days
470km
distance
5
Stops
98
curated stops

View ready-made plans 6-day plan · 7-day plan · best time to go

The route

Labuan Bajo→ 140 kmRuteng→ 130 kmBajawa→ 120 kmEnde→ 50 kmMoni (Kelimutu)

What you'll see

Goa Batu Cermin
Explore a limestone cave where reflected daylight and marine fossils reveal the hill's geological past.
Labuan Bajo
Lingko Cara and Ruteng Pu’u cultural circuit
Read Manggarai culture in the spider-web fields of Cancar and the living mbaru gendang settlement at Ruteng Pu’u.
Ruteng
Bena village and Inerie cultural landscape
Spend a respectful half-day in Bena’s lived Ngada landscape of clan houses, ancestral shrines and megaliths beneath Mount Inerie.
Bajawa
Ende independence-history walk
Follow Soekarno’s years of exile from the preserved house to the breadfruit-tree park associated with the ideas that became Pancasila.
Ende
Detusoko rice-terrace and coffee stop
Pause on the climb from Ende to Moni for Detusoko’s terraced highland fields and locally grown robusta coffee.
Moni (Kelimutu)
Komodo National Park boat and ranger circuit
Make one carefully booked conservation day of the crossing: boat from Labuan Bajo, ranger-led wildlife viewing, and only the marine stops confirmed for the conditions.
Labuan Bajo
Liang Bua Caves
Explore ancient caves with stunning surroundings and historic echoes.
Ruteng
Wolobobo viewpoint and Malanage hot-spring circuit
Pair the high, open view toward Inerie with a slow soak where hot volcanic water meets the cold mountain stream at Malanage.
Bajawa

Choose your length

6-day plan11 stops · 16.3 h transit1.8 stops/day · 2.7 h transit/daySee the full plan →7-day plan15 stops · 17.3 h transit2.1 stops/day · 2.5 h transit/daySee the full plan →

When to go

Best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October

Drier-season window: marine and road conditions are often more workable, but the Komodo boat, park quota, village access and every Trans-Flores leg still require a live check.

See the month-by-month breakdown →

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