Just over an hour from Bali by plane is the still under-explored island of Flores . For those in the know, this Lesser Sunda ...

On Rinca Island, a vehicle that is touted as Jurassic Park was built. Meanwhile, Komodo Island is projected to become an exclusive tourist area with ticket prices of up to US $ 1,000 for foreign ...

Getty Images Komodo dragons are the world's largest lizards But around the same time they also unveiled plans for a mass tourist development on neighbouring Rinca Island, which is home to the ...

Rinca Island, also in the park, has some fantastic hiking trails and unique flora and fauna. An island-hopping boat tour, ...

Most of them - around 1,700 - live on Komodo Island, and around 1,000 more live on Rinca, another island in the national park. The national park as a whole is a Unesco World Heritage site.

The picture of the dragon, one of the world’s largest lizards, blocking the path of a big vehicle on Indonesia’s Rinca Island prompted an outpouring of anger about perceived threats to the ...

The dragons have lived on five islands — Komodo, Rinca, Gili Montang ... The reason they are so massive has been attributed to "island gigantism," which occurs when there are no competing ...