Belaraghi – an Excursion Beyond Bena Village of Bajawa Central Flores

If you want to experience Ngada culture beyond popular Bena and Wogo, and if you are ready to invest a little time and physical effort, you should dare to hike to the extraordinary village of Belaraghi and spend the night in this beautiful place. The sixteen beautiful traditional houses are located in a secluded forest clearing, providing natural harmony. The sixteen traditional houses, standing tidily in two parallel rows, are renovated on a regular basis and are thus in very good condition. Five of those sixteen houses are so-called sao pu’u, first or original houses, which are indicated by a miniature house on the roof; the other five distinct buildings are sao lobo, ‘last houses’, which feature a miniature human figure on the roof.

Five is also the number of clans living in Belaraghi at present. Besides the buildings mentioned, the Belaraghi clans are also affiliated with another house type: the sao kaka (with kaka meaning ‘to share’). These houses are considered ‘children’, the descendents of a clan’s sao pu’u and sao lobo. Some of the sao kaka are even located in other villages. The kaka inhabitants support their families in the sao pu’u and the sao lobo financially, materially and with labor.

Inerie volcano in Bajawa

Inerie volcano would look very attractive if the weather is good, from a distance looks like a cone towering into the sky. Inerie volcano has a height of 2245 meters above sea level located in Bajawa area in Flores Island – Indonesia.

Mengeruda Natural Hot Spring In Bajawa Flores

As one of the prime tourist district Ngada, hot water Mengeruda deserved the title as a distinguished tourist attraction worth a visit if you're plesiran to Flores. In addition to a good natural scenery, this place also offers a bathhouse with hot water springs directly from the slopes of the mountain.

ARROUND BAJAWA

• Traditional Village
  Bajawa is special area, because the people still hold the tradition strongly. Traditional ceremony still be done like sacrifice and offering for the ancestors. Matrilineal society makes Bajawa Tribes different with other tribes in Flores. People still stay in traditional house, so there are some traditional villages such as Bena, Luba, Tololela, Gurusina Wogo and the other village that isolated like Belaragi, Watu, just can be reached on foot. Bajawanese
  
• Mengeruda Hotspring
  Hot spring with the natural pool,clean water and natural message from the hot waterfall. It is the nice place for relaxing.
  
• Wawo Muda Lake
  Wawo Muda is new crater with the yellow color lake. Last eruption in January 11th 2001. It is beautiful view.
  
• Riung
  In the north of Bajawa. There is Seventeen Island National Park, beautiful coral and fishes, kalong colony hanging on the mangrove and white sandy beach.
  
• Inerie and Ebulobo Vulcano
  Inerie Volcano is active normal volcano. The high is 2245 meters above sea level. It takes about 4 hours to the top. Ebulobo Vulcano is active volcano with the smoky crater. The high is 2140 above sea level. It takes about 5 hours to reach the top.