Lake kelimutu Becomes Three Colors

Monday, March 5, 2012


National parks Flores is the smallest national park of six national parks in Bali and Nusa Tenggara. However, size is not so important when we look to offer the natural beauty of this park has.

There are three lakes on the summit of Mount Flores, with the same name and was popularly known as Lake Kelimutu. Each lake has a color and its significance. The third lake is considered the dwelling place of spirits, and is believed to have a very powerful force of nature.

If you want to reach the location of the lake, you can monitor from a small town, which is the base camp for backpackers started. Beautiful scenery along the road to the place of the lake is very beautiful. The westernmost lake called Tiwu Mbupu Ata, the "lake of the souls of parents who had died" means. The lake is located in the "sea of young people who have died," Muri Koo Fai called middle Tiwu Nuwa or removed. While "doing on the lake for the souls who do evil," most of the lake Ata Polo Tiwu or called. the third color of the lake is always changing.

Change the color of the lake itself is erratically Flores. Sometimes the colors are blue, green and black, while at other times, white, red and blue, dark brown, then some time later.

Flores is a forest area that has a variety of plants that are rarely found, surrounded elsewhere on Flores. In addition to the pines, there are also ferns, a plant of the genus Casuarina, Redwood, and Edelweiss.