The lake Three Colors, the Fair of Kelimutu

Lake Kelimutu Indonesia

Some of you have never tried trekking to Lake Kelimutu, but some may still dreaming to visit. Kelimutu National Park is the smallest national park of six National Parks in Bali and Nusa Tenggara. However, size is not so important when you see the natural beauty of this national park has to offer.

Here there are three lakes located on top of Mount Kelimutu, with the same name and is popularly known as the Lake Kelimutu. Each lake has colors and their meanings. The three lakes were believed to be a dwelling place of spirits and believed to have a very powerful force of nature.

According to Wikipedia, Lake Kelimutu popularized a Dutch citizen named Van Such Telen in 1915. Its beauty is more widely known after Y. Bouman depicts the beauty and the lake water discoloration in his writings in 1929.

Beautiful scenery along the road to the location of the lake is very beautiful. Most western lake named Tiwu Ata Mbupu meaning 'lake souls of parents who have died'. The lake is located in the middle called Nuwa Muri Koo Fai Tiwu or 'lake for the souls of young people who have died'. While most easterly lake called Tiwu Ata Polo or 'lake for souls always do evil'. Third color lake is always changing.

There are other lakes in the world that can change color as the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier, South Australia, with the change of blue to gray and predictable. There is also a lake on Mount Yudamari Nakade, Japan, which changed from turquoise to green colors.

Change the color of the water of Lake Kelimutu itself is unpredictable. Sometimes, the color blue, green, and black, while at other times can be white, red, and blue, and some time later a dark brown color.

Scientifically discoloration Kelimutu is a factor mineral content, moss, and rocks in the crater and the influence of sunlight. Scientists believe that the lake was formed from volcano eruptions in ancient times. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of geologists because of the existence of the lake which has three different colors, but in this same mountain. Local communities Moni sure that the people who live around the lake have done evil to the lake changes color, as reported by Indonesia Travel.

Local people believe that the lake is where the souls of the dead rest. Kelimutu area surrounded by forests that covered a variety of plants that are rarely found elsewhere on Flores. Besides pine trees, there are also ferns, plant genus Casuarina, redwood, and edelweiss flowers.

Pine forests flourished at the height of Mount Kelimutu. Another area of ​​barren mountain with sand and soil that is not stable. Local people believe that Kelimutu is Kramat mountain and a source of fertility to the soil around it.

To see the beauty of it, you can travel with a rental car with a capacity of seven seats will keep you entertained with impressive views along the road for several hours. Winding journey that connects the island's 350 kilometers however is a decent price for a beautiful panorama of Flores that deserves to be discussed.

You can also use the Kupang-Ende aircraft for approximately 40 minutes or Milky-Ende for approximately 90 minutes. Furthermore, from Ende to the nearest village, the Village Koanara approximately 93 km (approximately 3 hours). Then, from the village of Koanara-Village-Rural Koposii Manakuko-Summit-Lake Kelimutu walk approximately 2.5 hours.