Mount Kelimutu, Flores

Kelimutu mountain is a volcano located on the island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Location precisely in this mountain village Koanara, District Wolowaru, Ende. This mountain has three crater lakes on top. This lake is known by the name of Lake of Three Colors for the three different colors, namely red, blue and white. However, colors always change over time. Kelimutu is a combination word of "keli" which means mountain, and the word "quality" which means boiling. According to local belief, colors on the lake has Kelimutu each have the power of nature and a very formidable.
Start the beginning of this area found by Van Such Telen, citizens of the Netherlands, in 1915. Beauty known knowledgeable after Y. Bouman described in writings in 1929. Since that time began to foreign tourists come to enjoy the lake, known for haunted the local community. They come not only a lover's beauty, but also researchers who want to know the nature of the incident is very rare. Kelimutu area has been set into the National Nature Conservation area since 26 February 1992.

Tiwu Kelimutu lake or in the top three sections in accordance with the color - the color that is in the lake. Lake blue or "Tiwu Nuwa MURI koo Fai" is a gathering place where the souls of young-mudi who has died. Lake of the red or "Tiwu Ata Polo" is a gathering place where the souls of those who have died for and he always lives to crime / horoscope. While the lake or a white "Tiwu Ata Mbupu" is a gathering place where the souls of parents who have died.

Knowledgeable about the lake that 1,051,000 square meters with a water volume of 1292 million cubic meters. Boundary between the lake is a narrow wall of stone that is easy to landslides. This wall is very steep with a slope angle 70 degrees. Wall height of the lake ranges from 50 to 150 meters.

In the Kelimutu trip, visitors can enjoy the flora and fauna that are rarely found in other places such as mountain pine, red wood, edelweis, porcupine, wild pig, big rat, and bird gerugiwa.

Stunning scenery you can also see that such activities continue to whiff solfatara steam and the crater wall yellow. When you cast a glance to the east to reach the peak when a red lake, a hill-shaped tower looks round. That Buu Ria, located high in the Mount Kelimutu.
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