02.29.2024 Komodo Island, Indonesia

Welcome to Komodo Island. Komodo island, part of the Lesser Sunda chain of Indonesian islands, and is the rugged habitat of the 3m-long Komodo dragon monitor lizard. Komodo National Park covers the entire region and is home to more than 4,000 dragons, and is made up of rusty-red volcanic hills, savannah and forests. Its surrounding waters of seagrass beds, mangrove shrublands and coral reefs are famous for diving.

Probably the friendliest immigration and customs crew we have seen. They come on board and work with the Viking team reviewing our passports. Viking collects our passports at various stages along our route. Sometimes we have face to face immigration (Australia for example) Other times Viking gets to take care of it for us. All country dependent.

Everyone had the included excursion with Viking to see the dragons. No other excursions were offered nor could you leave the ship to go ashore on your own.
We tendered to the island about 12:30 for our scheduled tour at 1:00. Extremely hot and humid. The dragons are huge. They are carnivorous and eat wild pigs and boars on the island about twice a month. Glad we got to see them.
We also a monkey and some water buffalo.

We have dinner in the Restaurant tonight with Paul and Joyce Soucy.
We attend the show tonight is “Divas and Legends” with the Viking Entertainment Team.Read more