East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Komodo
Dry savannah islands, ferocious currents, and the world's largest lizard.
$$–$$$$$moderate accesshigh adventureBest: Apr–NovBackpacker → Ultra Luxury
Why go
Why this island
Labuan Bajo is the gateway: deck-class boat trips leave from the same harbour as $12,000-a-week phinisi charters.
- Some of the best drift diving in Asia.
- A landscape unlike anywhere else in Indonesia — golden, dry, enormous.
- Everything from open-deck boat trips to private phinisi.
At a glance
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- East Nusa Tenggara
- Archipelago
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Best season
- Apr–Nov
- Access
- moderate
- Known for
- Komodo dragons, Drift diving, Padar, Manta rays