Leg 173, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia via Timor-Leste to Benlelang, Alor Island, Indonesia
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Following the volcanic range to the East including Mount Tambora, known for the largest eruption during the Holocene period (10,000 years to present)
02-10 Bali Intl WADD 6:03 PM
02-10 Selaparang WADA 6:25 PM
02-10 Lombok Intl WADL 6:35 PM
02-10 Lunyuk WAPU 7:13 PM Unmarked runway
02-10 Sumbawa Besar WADS 7:36 PM
02-10 Mohammad Salahuddin WADB 8:19 PM
02-10 Tambolaka WATK 9:06 PM
02-10 Mau Hau WATU 9:31 PM
02-10 Tardamu WATS 10:09 PM
02-10 David Constantijn Saudale WATR 10:38 PM
02-10 El Tari WATT 11:00 PM
02-10 Oecussi WPOC 11:37 PM
02-10 Haliwen WRKA 11:52 PM
02-11 Maliana WPMN 12:08 AM
02-11 Pres Nicolau Lobato International WPDL 12:25 AM Dili Capital
02-11 Cakung WPEC 12:46 AM
02-11 Jos Orno Imsula JIO 1:22 AM
02-11 Kisar WATQ 1:43 AM
02-11 Atauro WPAT 2:20 AM
02-11 Mali WATM 2:52 AM
Flight time 8:49 19 stops
Rainy departure from Bali International Airport
Waving Denpasar goodbye
Heading for Lombok Island
Selaparang on the West side of Lombok
Lombok is dominated by Mount Rinjani (12,224ft)
Lake Segara Anak inside the crater (which translates to “immediately child”)
Gunung Rinjani is the second highest volcano in Indonesia (after Mount Kerinci on Sumatra)
More active than Kerinci though, most recent eruption September 27 2016 (Kerinci 1970)
Danau (Lake) Taliwang on Sumbawa island
Olet Sangenges mountain peak (5,499ft)
A much older volcano, not active anymore
View of Olet Sangenges and the Agal Waterfall halfway down the mountain
Sumbawa Besar on the North side of the island
Ngali island, one of the islands dotted around Sumbawa in the Flores Sea
On the way to Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora is 9,350ft hight, not the highest, still quite a climb
Tambora is responsible for the largest every recorded eruption when it blew its top off in 1815
The eruption ejected 160–213 cubic kilometres of material into the atmosphere
Most recent eruption was in 1967
Episodes of increased seismic activity have occurred in 2011, 2012, and 2013, still active
The scale is impressive, the crater is its own world
Saneo to the East near Doro Oromboha (inactive)
Near Bima (behind on the right), the largest city on the island of Sumbawa
Komodo island
Loh Liang - Komodo National Park
Home to the Komodo dragon, a species that has been around for 4 million years
Padar island’s pink beach
Caused by the Foraminifera, a microorganism that produces the pink/red color pigment on the coral reef
Flying over Rinca and Kode Pulau Motang Island (the small one)
Waingapu, the largest town on the island of Sumba
Tardamu Airport at Boddo on Sawu island
David Constantijn Saudale Airport on Rote Island
Sotimori, North-East side of Rote island
Gunung Fatuleu, popular climbing rock sticking out the landscape on South Timor
Nuaf Nefomasi (7,963ft) in the distance
The mountain sits in Cagar Alam Gunung Mutis nature preserve
Noenoe Heno, Timor-Leste
Lifau - Pante Macassar on the North Coast of East Timor
Lifau Monument, documenting the arrival of the Portugese
On August 18, 1515, Portuguese Dominicans landed on Timor and founded the Lifau settlement on the site in 1556 to secure the sandalwood trade.
Foho Tatamailau (9,797ft) highest mountain on Timor
And a pilgrimage site dedicated to Virgin Mary
Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste on the North coast
President Nicolau Lobato International Airport and Tais Market, looks rather warm there
The large Cristo Rei de Dili statue, on a hilltop East of the city
Beatiful beaches as everywhere around here
Archives & Museum of East Timorese Resistance
After the Portugese lost control of Timor in 1975, Indonesia swooped in to occupy Timor. In a case of the abused becoming the abusers, for 24 years the Indonesian government subjected the people of East Timor to routine and systematic torture, sexual slavery, extrajudicial executions, massacres, and deliberate starvation. East Timor finally gained independence in 2002. Investigation into the East Timor genocide is still ongoing.
Passing Sau at the mouth of the Rib Laclo River
Bandara (Airport) Perintis Moa Maluku Barat Daya on Moa Island
Also marked as Jos Orno Imsula Airport, Bandar Udara Moa and Leti Airport
Kisar Island (and Kisar Airport)
Atauro Island
Dola Koyakoya (5,988ft)
Located on Alor island
Alor Island Airport, final stop today
I sure would like to get out and walk to the beach over there
More of Indonesia to explore tomorrow, heading for Sulawesi and Borneo