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THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WOLOGAI TRADITIONAL VILLAGE

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THE UNIQUENESS OF THE WOLOGAI TRADITIONAL VILLAGE We continue our series of the interesting villages around our lodges. Many of our guests take tours to include village visits and some even stay one or two nights in a company registered village homestay so they can experience village life. Wologai is a traditional village located in the Ende Lio area, precisely in the Detusoko sub-district, Ende regency – East Nusa Tenggara. Wologai traditional village is about […]

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THE MUSIC OF INDONESIA

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THE MUSIC OF INDONESIA The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia. Nearly all of thousands of Indonesian islands having its own cultural and artistic history and character. Situated in the Indian and Pacific oceans, the archipelago of Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia and the most extensive island complex in the world, comprising more […]

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SUMATRA : WAY KAMBAS NATIONAL PARK

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SUMATRA : WAY KAMBAS NATIONAL PARK 27 May – 4 June 2012 Richard Webb (guigna@aol.co.uk) INTRODUCTION After two unsuccessful attempts to see Sunda Clouded Leopard in Borneo and two unsuccessful attempts to see its mainland counterpart in Thailand, reports of sightings in Way Kambas lead me to spend a week there in May 2012 particularly with the outside chance of Asian Tapir and a host of other species as well. Unfortunately the leopard eluded me […]

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CONSERVE OUR WORLD

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CONSERVE OUR WORLD Conserve our World is the name for the most important program of our Foundation the Indonesia Conservation Foundation – Our World https://ecolodgesindonesia.com/conservation-foundation/ numbered Program 3.2 on the website. 3.2 Conserve Our World through tree planting With the assistance of World Relief Australia (WRA) and VET LOVE (VL), both based in Queensland, this program has been given a large boost and is now our largest program. We wish to use a local NGO […]

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ABOUT OUR TOUR Bena Village – The Megalithic Village in Bajawa, Flores.

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ABOUT OUR TOUR Bena Village – The Megalithic Village in Bajawa, Flores.    The Bena village – Bajawa – Flores Bena can be reached around 7-8 hours via road trip from our Mbeliling Mountain Ecolodge in West Flores. It is the most famous and also most visited village in the Ngada District. With its impressive stone formations and ancestral shrines, as well as traditional houses, Bena has turned into a signpost for Ngada culture.  All our tours […]

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ANIMAL SIGHTED AT OUR LODGE The White-winged Wood Duck

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ANIMAL SIGHTED AT OUR LODGE The White-winged Wood Duck The white-winged duck or white-winged wood duck Asarcornis scutulata is a large species of duck, formerly placed in the genus Cairina and allied with the dabbling ducks. However further analysis has indicated a monotypic species The white-winged duck – photo by Hariyono Historically, the white-winged duck was widely distributed from north eastern India and Bangladesh, throughout South East Asia to Java and Sumatra. It is now […]

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