Three young Komodo dragons have gone missing at a zoo in the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
The Komodo dragon, simply the biggest and fattest lizard on earth, is undisputed superstar of the park.
Komodo Island is also distinguished by its pink sand beach, one of only seven in the world.
But more fulfilling is a day hike on the spectacular and remote Komodo island, 22 nautical miles from the mainland.
The most spectacular example is on the Indonesian island of Komodo, where local lizards have grown so large that they are often referred to as dragons.
They came to cruise the remote spice islands in Indonesia, the dragon-dotted shores of Komodo, the scuba fantasyland of Raja Ampat, or simply to escape to Thailand and Burma.
The Park is near the eastern end of a long skinny string of the 17, 508 islands that make up Indonesia and covers three major islands: Komodo, Rinca and Padar .
His boat tour includes stops at Kanawa and Angel Islands -- on the edge of Komodo National Park -- where sugar-white beaches are surrounded by turquoise waters in which coral and tropical fish are abundant.
On Kalong, a pimple of land set inside a bay on the east coast of Komodo, tens of thousands of giant flying foxes emerge from mangroves at dusk and fly east to Rinca hunting for food.
Eight feet tall and twenty-four feet long, the specimen had been mounted in a predatory running position, with its arms out and its jaws open, as if determined to eat Lot No. 49220 a cast Komodo dragon, crouching ten yards away, on blue velvet.
You can charter a local boat from Labuanbajo for two or three day cruises in park waters, snorkel over pristine reefs, lounge on pink sand beaches and hike on Rinca and Komodo (one and a half and three hours by boat from Labuanbajo respectively).
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