Three color lakes Flores is located at Kelimutu, which is the capital of Ende Regency in East Nusa Tenggara province. When you go to Kelimutu, you will find a lot of volcanoes there.
The volcanoes contains three striking summit crater lakes of varying colors.
Tiwu Ata Bupu (Lake of Old People) is usually blue and is the westernmost of the three lakes. The other two lakes is Tiwu Ko'o Fai Nuwa Muri (Lake of Young Men and Maidens) and Tiwu Ata Polo (Bewitched or Echanted Lake)are separated by a shared crater wall and are typically red or green respectively.
Kelimutu is also interest to geologist because the three lakes have different colors yet are at the crest of the same volcano. Kawah Putih lake in West Java, South of Bandung, is another crater lake in Indonesia, it has some similarities to the lakes at Kelimutu.
Kelimutu is one of the mountains listed as a ribu in Indonesia which are mountains in Indonesia which are more than 1.000 meters high. The area is said to have begun to attract attention after being noticed by a regional Dutch military commander, B. Van Suchtelen in 1915 and became more well-known after Y. Bouman wrote about the site in 1929.
If you want to go there, you can take a flight from Bali to Ende, and arrive at the closest airports which are the Maumere, and Ende. Then, you can take drive from Ende to Moni, the town at the base of Kelimutu where accomodation is available, it takes about 3 hours, while from Moni to Kelimutu vehicle park, a 13 kilometers needs 45 minutes. Usually tourists sleep one night to catch sunrise at Kelimutu.
Lake Flores is the only lake in the world in which the water can change anytime, from red to dark green and then red hearts, dark green to light green, dark brown to blue sky, this natural phenomenon is a miracle. The picture below is showing the circulation of the changing color of the lakes :
Lake Flores is the only lake in the world in which the water can change anytime, from red to dark green and then red hearts, dark green to light green, dark brown to blue sky, this natural phenomenon is a miracle. The picture below is showing the circulation of the changing color of the lakes :
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