TANAKA LIVEABOARD: KOMODO

This island is one of the three largest islands included in Komodo National Park. The island is famous for Komodo dragons, giant lizards that can measure up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) long. Rinca is also populated with many other species such as wild pigs, buffalos and many birds. Rinca has beautiful sceneries with white beaches, mangroves, savannas and blue waters. During the dry season, these savannas and hills have dried grasses.

Padar is a small island located between Komodo and Rinca islands within Komodo archipelago. Padar has dry climate, with only bushes and grassland vegetation covering the island, creating savanna hills. Padar island has four deep bays with beaches in different colors, most of them are white sands, while some beaches has grey and pink sands. The sea surrounding the island has several sites popular for scuba diving and snorkeling.

Komodo Island has the rugged habitat of the 3 m-long Komodo dragon monitor lizard. Komodo National Park covers the entire region and is home to more than 4,000 dragons, and is made up of rusty-red volcanic hills, savannah and forests. You can get closer to these dragons with Butik Trip that gives you Komodo Island Tour. You can directly feel how fascinating to experience komodo dragon tour. Furthermore, Komodo Island is surrounding waters of seagrass beds, mangrove shrub-lands and coral reefs are famous for diving.

Pink Beach, or Pantai Merah, as it is aptly named, is one of seven pink beaches on the planet, and is just one of the many amazing features of Komodo Island that make it truly a Natural Wonder of Nature. This exceptional beach gets its striking color from microscopic animals called Foraminifera, which produce a red pigment on the coral reefs. The corals of the Pink Beach’s underwater gardens are in excellent condition, with hundreds of species of both soft and hard corals, and thousands of species of fish.

Kelor island is small island with white sandy beach, magnificent sea garden and colorful tropical fishes. Challenge yourself for some hill trekking in Kelor Island and do not forget to swim around the island who has a very crystal clear water.