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This Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights gives you three days aboard your own phinisi: sunrise hikes above curved bays, rose-tinted beaches, manta rays and dinners on deck.
A Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights means the boat is yours alone. We sail a classic wooden phinisi with a crew of five — captain, cruise director, chef and two deckhands — following a route the crew adjusts each day to the tides, the light and whatever you most want to see.
Days on this Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights start early: coffee on deck, then a short hike before the heat arrives. Afternoons drift between snorkelling, long lunches and naps in the shade. Every evening ends with dinner under the stars, anchored in a quiet bay away from the day boats.
Written by our cruise director, who has sailed this route for eleven seasons.
I have guided this Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights more times than I can count, and it still gets me at the same moment: the engines cut, the sails go out, and Labuan Bajo shrinks behind us until it is just a smudge of tin roofs under the hills.
The water turns from harbour-grey to a green so clear you can see the reef pass beneath the bow.
The first morning of every Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights is always an early one. We climb Padar before the sun clears the ridge, and the view — three bays curving into each other — is at its best in the first twenty minutes, when the light is soft and ours is the only boat on the water.
Then breakfast on deck, coffee stronger than it needs to be, and the rest of the day belongs to you.
By the second evening most guests stop asking what time it is, and this Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights quietly becomes the trip they did not want to end.
Dolphins off Kelor, a manta that decides to stay, a bay so flat and quiet that everyone ends up on the roof after dinner.
A route that changes daily on this Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights. The skipper reads tide and weather each morning and reorders the anchorages to suit.
Board in Labuan Bajo harbour and sail west to Kelor Island for your first swim and a short viewpoint hike. After lunch on deck we cross to Rinca Island for a ranger-guided walk through dry savannah, where wild Komodo dragons, deer and megapodes are regularly seen. We anchor off Kalong Island for sunset, when thousands of flying foxes lift out of the mangroves.
An early climb to the Padar viewpoint, best done before the heat and the day boats arrive. From there we sail to Pink Beach for snorkelling over shallow coral gardens and a long lunch in the shade. The afternoon brings a second ranger walk, this time on Komodo Island, followed by a drift in search of manta rays at Manta Point when the current is right.
A slow final morning of our Komodo island tour 3 days 2 nights at Kanawa Island, where the reef begins right off the jetty and the water is calm enough for first-time snorkellers. After brunch on board we sail back to Labuan Bajo, arriving around 3:00 PM with time for a shower before your onward flight.
We had booked a shared boat and switched to a private one three weeks before. Best decision of the whole trip — our daughter still talks about the flying foxes at Kalong
The crew noticed my wife does not eat seafood and quietly rebuilt every menu around that. Nobody made a fuss about it. That is the kind of thing you remember.
Sunrise on Padar with four other people instead of forty. Worth every rupiah
