Ampenan - Cakranegara - Mataram
The population centre of Lombok is an urban sprawl in the west made up of three nearby cities spreading from the shore the old port town of Ampenan blends into the administrative city of Mataram, which blends into the trade town of Cakranegara. Each city has a very different character. Ampenan, with its network of small streets, aged buildings, Chinese and Arab lodgings and decaying port, has the most character and life. Mataram, the administrative capital, has modern government buildings and Nusa Tenggara Barat museum ( with cloth, kris knives, tools and craftwork displays ). Cakranegara has craft shops, weaving, and points of interest from the days of Balinese power, as for example Pura Meru, the central temple for Lombok's Hindus, built in 1720 to unite the various existing groups; or Puri Mayura royal garden once served as court of justice and meeting hall for local nobles.

Sengkol - Pujut - Rambitan
Sengkol, Pujut, Rambitan are traditional Sasak villages located at the southern part of Lombok. The traditional houses enclose an centre raised area about a metre off the ground, and made of a mix of clay, dung and straw, that has been polished to a high gloss. The roof is thatch, and the walls are bamboo or palm leaf ribs. Traditional rice barns - called lumbungs become unofficial symbol of Lombok.

Taman Narmada
The structure and the pool supposedly built in 1805 as a replica of Gunung Rinjani and Segara Anak, the lake within Rinjani's caldera. When the king Anak Gede Karangasem of Mataram after he became too old to trek to Rinjani to deposit offerings in the sacred crater lake, he built Pura Narmada. The annual pilgrimage and offering at Rinjani's crater lake continues today.

Gunung Rinjani and Segara Anak Lake
Mount Rinjani at 3,726 above sea level forms the second highest volcanic peak in Indonesia. The view from the tip of caldera on Mount Rinjani is definitely the highlight of Lombok and perhaps of all Indonesia. Its huge crater contains the crescent-shaped Segara Anak Lake, 6 km across at its widest point. The lake is 600 metres below the crater rim, and in the centre of its curve is another cone, Gunung Baru, which is only 200 years old. For Sasak and Balinese the volcano is a sacred place and the adobe of deities. Segara Anak Lake is the destination of annual pilgrimage to place offerings in the water and bathe away disease in the hot springs. There are many routes up the mountain, but the main access is from Senaru in the north and Sembalun Lawang to the east.

Gili Air - Gili Meno - Gili Trawangan
All three islands, off the north-western coast of Lombok, offer white sand beaches and clear water for best in Lombok diving and snorkelling. The mixture and great quantity of marine life that finds its home in these waters is among the richest in the world.

Mount Tambora
Tambora is a stratovolcano, forming the Sanggar peninsula of Sumbawa Island. The diameter of the volcano at sea-level is about 60 km. Prior to the 1815 eruption, the volcano may have been as tall as 4,000 m. The 1815 eruption formed a caldera about 6 km in diameter, the caldera is 1,110 m deep. The 1815 eruption of Tambora was the largest eruption in historic time. About 150 cubic kilometres of rock and ash were erupted; ash fell as far as 1,300 km from the volcano; the eruption column reached a height of about 44 km. An estimated 92,000 people were killed by the eruption. About 10,000 direct deaths were caused by bomb impacts, tephra fall, and pyroclastic flows. An estimated 82,000 were killed indirectly by the eruption by starvation, disease, and hunger. Mount Tambora, not active at present, rising 2,850 meters above sea level, attracts the climbers. Mount Tambora is heavily wooded, and surrounded by a thick belt of rain forest, a strange contrast to the aridity of the remainder of the peninsula. From the rim of the crater you may view the rest the island, the sea, Mount Rinjani, and the island of Lombok in the distance. Climbing Tambora is recommended to very experienced and physically well-prepared climbers.

Moyo Island
Moyo Island, on the north east of Sumbawa Besar, is the right place for lovers of nature and the underwater world. Moyo Island, has a nature reserve with wild oxen, deer, wild boars and a great variety bird species that occupy almost two-thirds of the island. Land animals are easy to see and attractive enough, the main attraction lies beneath the sea surface. Moyo offers some of the very best snorkelling in Indonesia.

Bima Town
The main attraction of Bima is the former palace the Bima sultanate. The building is now being turned into a museum. Dara s village two kilometres from the town of Bima in eastern Sumbawa, is believed to be the former seat of the ancient Bima kingdom.

Komodo National Park
Komodo National Park is located between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores at the border of the Nusa Tenggara Timur and Nusa Tenggara Barat provinces. It includes three major islands, Komodo, Rinca and Padar, and numerous smaller islands together totalling 603 km2 of land. The total size of Komodo National Park is presently 1,817 km2. Proposed extensions of 25 km2 of land ( Banta Island ) and 479 km2 of marine waters would bring the total surface area up to 2,321 km2. Most of its land area is hilly with the highest peak Satabilo rising 735 metres above sea level. Komodo National Park was established on March 6th 1980 and designated as a Biosphere Reserve on 1986 and later in 1991 declared a World Heritage Site. The park was initially established to conserve the unique Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), the world's largest reptiles and can reach 3 meters or more in length and weigh over 70kg. Komodo National Park and western Flores is the only place where "ora", as it is called in the local language, still exist. Conservation goals have been expanded to protecting its entire biodiversity, both marine and terrestrial. The Park provides refuge for many other notable terrestrial species such as the orange-footed scrub fowl, an endemic rat, and the Timor deer. Moreover, the Park includes one of the richest marine environments including coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, seamounts, and semi-enclosed bays. These habitats harbour more than 1,000 species of fish, some 260 species of reef-building coral, and 70 species of sponges. Dugong, sharks, manta rays, at least 14 species of whales, dolphins, and sea turtles also make Komodo National Park their home.

Labuan Bajo
Labuan Bajo is a quiet fishing village that sit on s beautiful harbour filled with the outriggers, canoes for various sizes. Its main significance from a tourist viewpoint is its nearness to the Komodo National Park.

Batu Cermin
Batu Cermin is a natural cave located at Wae Kesambi village. Attraction of this cave are fossils of marine life such as fish, coral reefs, turtles and many types and shapes of stalactites and stalagmites.

Bidadari Island
It is a small and attractive island with white sandy beach, clean water and coral reefs. The island is located at northwest of Labuan Bajo.

Ruteng
Ruteng, the capital of the Manggarai district, lies at the foot of mountain range and at the head of complex of valleys that forms the island's main rice-producing region.

Bajawa
Bajawa, the capital of Ngada district, has preserved its traditional ways more that any other area of Flores. Langa and Bena are two ancient villages, with ngadhu and bhaga shrines. Ngadhu, representing a clan's male ancestors, looks like thatched umbrellas, some 3 metres high, topped with a human figure. Bhaga, the female partner to the ngadhu, is a small thatched hut. There are also interesting megalithic stones at Bena and nearby village Wogo Tua.

Seventeen Islands Nature Reserve
There are in fact more that 20 islands that offer excellent snorkelling. The reefs off the islands are very healthy, in good variety and with a lots of colourful fish.

Ende
Ende, set amidst several volcanoes, is the largest town on Flores with about 60,000 inhabitants.

Keli Mutu
Volcanic crater lakes on Gunung Keli Mutu are the island's main tourist attraction. The lakes, at an elevation of 1,640 metres above sea level, are split only by low ridges and, unusually are of different colours: blue, turquoise, and almost black. The scenery nearby the lakes is bald and grey, and in this background the colours are really surprising. The lakes got their colour because of the mineral deposits, which resolve in the water. Because of the changing amounts of minerals the colours of the lakes changes over time; the last decades the lakes used to be dark-red, light green and light blue.

Maumere
In the direct environment of the city you will find great places for snorkelling and diving, traditional weaving villages of Watublapi, Sikka and Nita, beautiful nature and old relics from the Portuguese time and the only museum of the island.

Lembata Island
Lembata Island ( 1,200 km2 ) is noted for its primitive whaling industry centred in the village of Lamalera on the south coast. Hunting whales from small boat is still the main economic activity in this area. The only town of note on Lembata is Lewoleba which is popular for its weekly market, where buyers and sellers from all over the region come down to the town on that day.

Ile Ape volcano
Towering over the Lembata island, Gunung Ile Ape, is reverted by local citizens who retain animistic beliefs. Those living on the slopes of volcano are considered as the most ethnically traditional on Lembata Islands. Small shrines bearing simple offerings are prevalent the slopes of the volcano.

Solor
Solor has an old Portuguese fort, constructed in 1566 and still in good shape; massive stone walls encircle a rectangular interior.

Alor
Alor offers white sand beaches, good snorkelling and outstanding diving. There are scattered traditional villages still practising old lifestyle with their spiritual beliefs, bride prices and bronze drums. Bronze kettledrums are replicas of those from the 2,000-years old Dong Son era of northern Vietnam. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of these drums are still kept as heirlooms and are an essential part of the bride price. Although drums found on Alor were cast in either Java or China, haw they ended up on this island, which was not part of usual trade routes, remains unknown.

Waingapu
Waingapu is the biggest town in Sumba, the island's seaport and administrative capital of East Sumba district. Near Waingapu, at the villages Prailiu and Kwangu, is produced the finest Sumbanese ikat cloth.

Waikabubak
Waikabubak, a little district town in West Sumba, is full of old graves carved in motifs of buffalo- horns, man-heads, horses, nude men or women symbolising social status or the wealth of the people. There are following tombs: Kadung Tana, Watu Karagata, and Bulu Peka Mila.

Tarung
Tarung village, an important ceremonial centre, is located on top of a hill, near Waikabubak. There are several megalithic tombs. Fronts of many traditional houses are decorated with huge water buffalo horns from the animals sacrificed during rituals.

Anakalang
Anakalang village has a large graveyard and, the largest in Sumba, megalithic tombs with unusual carvings.

The Pasola
The Pasola is the most exciting ceremony on Sumba, it is a ritual fight with spears featuring hundreds of horsemen. It is a wild and warlike event. The Pasola takes place a few days after the second and third full moons of the solar year - February in Lamboya and Kodi, March in Gaura and Wanukaka - and culminates in the spring ritual cycle; coincide with the yearly arrival to shore of strange, multihued sea-worms.

Kupang
Kupang, the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara, is it the large urban centre of the province. It is the centre of government, trade and education. The only sandalwood oil factor in Indonesia is located in this town. Here one can see the distillation of sandalwood oil which is famous in East Nusa Tenggara. The Museum in Kupang has on display items of historical and cultural value.