Kelimutu - Three Lakes Mystery of Color

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December 9, 2009

danau Color in Three Lakes Kelimutu, known to the world, located 60 kilometers from Ende district, precisely in Moni. The crater at the top of Flores has long been a mainstay of tourism in East Nusa Tenggara. His name is known even to many parts of the world, mainly through word of mouth of the foreign tourists who had traveled there. It looked like a lake to make the rest of this crater lake was called Lake Kelimutu or Three Colors. Being at about 5,000 hectares of land, since 1967 the government set this area as a national park.

There was no record of exactly when the lake is three colors at first found the local population. Water color change from time to time. However, the screen’s most famous lake water is red, white, and blue. This is the color used to sing children’s elementary school in various parts of the island of Flores. From time to time, this color changes according to season, sunlight, and the various chemical changes in the bottom of the crater.

danau1 Van Schuktelen, a Dutch citizen, who at first ‘open’ information in three colors of the lake to the vast world in 1915. The beauty of Flores so broke after Y. Bouman, also a European traveler, writing in 1929. Since then the foreign tourists began to arrive. Foreign missionaries on Flores helped bring news of this unique lake into parts of Europe and other countries. Not to mention very interested researchers to find out the causes of natural phenomena are very rare.

Beautiful, quiet, and mystical, the lake stretched away in the bottom of the crater in green, blue and black. In Ende Lio, residents called the three lakes as Tiwu Ata Mbupu (parent lake), Nua Muri Ko’o Tiwu Fai (Lake of young people), and Tiwu Ata Polo (soothsayer lake) known haunted. Ata Polo Tiwu Tiwu Nua Muri and separated only as wide as the steep walls of this 15-20 meter.Dinding previously impassable wall of people, but now dwindling and almost disappeared due to the eruption of the volcanic events and earthquakes. Approximately 300 meters to the west lies Tiwu Nua Muri Tiwu Mbupu Ata. Communities around Lake Kelimutu believe that is where the spirits of the ancestors . After death, their spirits moved from village to the top of Flores for good. Crater which would be occupied depending on age and deeds during life. Before entering into one of the lake, according to belief, the spirits advance to face the Queen Konde. He is the gatekeeper Perikonde, which is believed to be the entrance to Lake Kelimutu spirits. Here each visitor is allowed to give metal coins, betel nut, or cigarettes as an offering to the Queen Konde.

danau2 For tourists who do not like the occult affairs, ‘miracle’ of three craters Flores still has appeal. Color the water in the crater three constantly changing. Ata Mbupu Tiwu crater of the 1915 blood-red, black now brown. So did Tiwu Nua Muri. Active crater with a depth of 127 feet, the ever-changing color from emerald green to white, blue, and finally green. While Tiwu Ata Polo from white, green, blue, red, brown and now black.
According to some researchers, the color changes in the crater could be due to light refraction and reflection of the crater walls, water biota, bottom reflection, as well as changes in the dissolved chemicals in the crater

Unfortunately, the beauty that can not be enjoyed for long. Around 09:00 local time, the fog has enveloped the surface of the crater. Because of that, the tourists have departed from Ende while it was still dark, so after a two-hour car trip, they can reach the lake when the sun rises.

Another option is to stay overnight in the village of Moni, 12 kilometers from Flores. Lodging reply provided by the local government is a representative elbow cottage used as a place to stay for a while. From the inn Cika can see the beauty of the natural charm-come very naturally and wrapped in cool mountain air.

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