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• Arrival recommendation (Morning flight around 7.00 – 12.00)
• Frans Seda Airport of Maumere - Ikat Weaving Studio (45 minutes)
• Ikat Weaving Studio – Koka Beach (1.40 hours)
• Koka Beach – Moni Village (2 hours)

A guide will pick you up at Frans Seda Airport in Maumere with your flight schedule, and you will be welcomed by the traditional weaving (sembar).

Continue to Lepo Lorun. Lepo Lorun means ‘House of Weaving’ and is all about Ikat traditional weaving techniques, Sikka music, and wonderful local foods. It is a social community of traditional women weavers supporting women's empowerment and preserving Sikka cultural heritage. You can join in the weaving to learn these traditional techniques. And also, you will have local lunch foods here.

Then you are going to Koka Beach. The beach is rather a double beach or two bays with quite a rough tide and not very touristy; this makes it a magical place. You can do beaches and swimming around.

In the afternoon, you will drive to Moni village, where you will get a good lodge or hotel to stay in.

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• Hotel | Lodge – Kelimutu Lake (1 hour)

• Kelimutu Lake – Exile house of Ir. Soekarno (2 hours)
• Exile house of Ir. Soekarno – Blue Stone Beach (1.30 hour)
• Blue Stone Beach – Riung Village (3-4 hours)

Get up at 4.15 and start driving at 4.45 to the entry office.

You will do a soft trek and hope you will get a good sunrise on top of the hill Kelimutu. Which is located in the middle of the top of Mount Kelimutu, it has three volcanic crater lakes that are different in color. Then drive back to the hotel to have breakfast and check out.

Then you will move to Exile House of Ir. Soekarno. This is the house that Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, was ousted to from Java Island by the Dutch colonial authorities for being a political activist.

Continue to Blue Stone Beach; this striking beach is composed almost entirely of unusual turquoise, pastel blue, and reddish stones, a geological marvel. And also, you will have lunch at one of the local restaurants around this beach too.

Then you have a long drive to the Riung Village.

Free program

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• Riung Port – Kelalawar Island (1 hour)
• Kelalawar Island – Tembang Island (30 minutes)
• Tembang Island - Rutong Island (30 minutes)
• Rutong island – Riung Port (45 minutes)
• Riung Village – Soa Hotspring (2 hours)
• Soa Hotspring – Bajawa Town|Resort (1 hours)

Start earlier in the morning to hop to Riung Islands; the 17 islands of the national park are an incredible day out in the sea, visiting different small desert islands by wooden private boat and including a delicious fish BBQ at the beach.

Then continue Mangaruda Hot Spring is located in the Soa sub-district. Soa hot springs offer you the warmest at about 30-40°C. The spring water is believed to have a curative effect for those suffering from skin conditions. However, the experience of taking a warm, soothing bath in a beautiful, natural atmosphere is definitely a true delight for your body and soul.

Continue to Bajawa Regency | Manulalu Jungle Resort 

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• Manulalu Jungle Bungalow – Bena Village (45 minutes)
• Bena Village – Aimere (1.45 hours)
• Aimere district – Ruteng (1.45 hours)

Check out at 9.00 am.

You will explore and talk with the people of Bena Village. It is one of the megalithic villages in Ngada Regency. You still can see hundreds of Stone Age sites preserved and culturally maintained by the locals. Also, here there are 9 clans living in 45 houses. These are the Dizi, the Dizi Azi, the Wahtu, the Deru Lalulewa, the Deru Solamae, the Ngada, the Khopa, and the Ago. Each clan lives on a different level of the terraced village, with the Bena clan in its center.

After that you drive to the Aimere district, where you will see and learn how the traditional arrack is processed. It is called Sopi/Moke, and it is a beverage used in various traditional and religious ceremonies in Flores. The raw materials and processing techniques of this fermented product are very diverse, for information about processing this product is very limited in places.

Then you drive to Ruteng town, where you will stay at a local hotel.

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• Ruteng Town – Spyder Web Rice Field – Denge Village (3-4 hours)
• Denge Village (Parking area) – Pos 1 Trekking point (30 minutes by local Motorbike)
• Denge Village – Wae Rebo Village (2-3 hours by walk)

Breakfast starts earlier, from 6.00 to 7.30 am (Lodge | Hotel).

Start for the long drive to the trekking point at 7.45 am. We will stop first to spyder web rice field in Cancar.

Then you will ride a motorbike (local ojek) from the starting trek point, which is about 35 minutes away. It's 400 meters above sea level, and you are going to 1100 meters until that village by foot.

Wae Rebo village is a small and isolated village that’s recognized for its rebuilding of the seven traditional houses called Mbaru Niang. Traditional based on the spirit of community cooperation towards a sustainable tradition while at the same time improving its village welfare. The first time you arrive, you will get the welcome ceremony from Mosalaki/Tua Golo (a chief of the tribe), and it means that you are allowed to stay and do another activity around there.

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• Go down (2-3 hours)

• Motorbike (35 minutes)
• Denge Village – Labuan Bajo (4 hours)

Hunting sunset around 5.45 until 7 am.

Breakfast at 7 am.

You will visit one of the houses, where you can talk and share with the local people about their daily life, their culture, and what they believe.

Get out from the village around 9.00 am.

Arrive at Labuan Bajo town or your hotel around 5 pm.