Rinca island is probably more popular, but in fact there are a lot of peoples who are interested and visiting the Rinca island. There are many reasons why they prefer to visit this island such as this island is closer from Labuan Bajo and the number of Komodo in Rinca Island is more than the other islands. Below we would like to explain more about this beautiful island.
Rinca Island is located in West Manggarai regency, east nusa tenggara province. In addition, Komodo lives at four places that are included in to the Komodo National Park. Those places are the Komodo Island, Rinca Island, Gili Motang and Nusa Kode island. You need for about two hours long if you planned to use the land transportation to get in to the entrance of this Rinca Island, Loh Buaya or crocodile bay from Labuan Bajo.
Rinca Island is for about 19,000 hectares wide and it has for about 2,318 population of Komodo. This number is more than the Komodo Island had with 2,126 population of Komodo. anyhow, many tourists are usually wanting to visit these both islands, the Komodo and Rinca Island to make their vacation will be perfect as they hoped before.
Rinca Island is the second biggest islands in Komodo National Park. Furthermore, it is part of Komodo National Park famous as a habitat of the largest lizards living on earth. Meanwhile, the island surface is consisted of limestone hills with wide savanna where the Komodo Dragons love to stay in. Moreover, there are other species of wild animals living together in this island such as water buffalos, monkeys, forest pig, deer,snakes,and several kinds of birds etc. In addition, Rinca Island is one of the outstanding tourist destinations to discover the big reptiles of Komodo living free on the land. The popular activity for traveler visiting Rinca island is an exciting trekking adventure through the island to explore the island in discovering Komodo dragon, other wild animals life and spectacular panorama.
Loh Buaya in Rinca island is a small bay where the crocodiles wildly living in this place. Loh Buaya is coming from the local world where”Loh” means bay, while “Buaya” is crocodile. Since the crocodiles are found in this bay then slow down this area is called by Loh Buaya or Crocodile Bay. Furthermore, Loh Buaya is the only arrival jetty of Rinca Island where the boats are usually docking at this place. There is a wooden bridge in front of the entrance gateway to facilitate the tourists to visit the island. Meanwhile, the Rinca island the easiest island to find Komodo dragons due to we can find the Komodo when we arrive at this island. There are also several trekking adventures available through this island to find the Komodo Dragons in this island.