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Nine stops, and the route that calls at each
Updated 4 November 2026
Nine stops make up Neptune's Komodo National Park plans: Padar, Pink Beach, Komodo with Rinca, Manta Point, Taka Makassar, Kalong, Kelor, Sebayur, and Kanawa, which is on request only. This page maps them and shows which route calls where, with no invented distances.
Nine stops, drawn on the map
The map shows nine stops, and each card opens a page of its own. Padar and Kelor are climbs to a viewpoint. Komodo and Rinca are the dragon walks, and Kalong is the bat flight at dusk. Pink Beach, Taka Makassar, Manta Point and Sebayur are water and sand, and Kanawa is a request.
Two names appear in the itineraries without a page of their own. Manjarite is a snorkel stop on the 1D sample route and on the longer overnights, and Long Beach is the other name for the stretch used in place of Pink Beach. We name both on the route pages and describe them no further.
Kanawa is the odd one. It is not in Neptune's printed plan, and a private charter's order of stops is agreed with the captain, so we show Kanawa as something you can ask for and never as something you will get.
- Three bays from one ridge, before the heat
- Pale pink sand, and the reef a swim away
- Which island, which trail, which route
- Mantas are common here and never promised
- A crescent of sand that the tide gives and takes
- Thousands of flying foxes leave at dusk
- A short, steep hill above the bay
- The first reef after the harbour
- A request to the captain, not a printed stop
A stop, a day: the order along the routes
The routes use the stops in a different mix, and the table beside the map shows which stop belongs to which route.
- 1D day charter. A sample route of Kelor, Rinca and Manjarite, back before sunset.
- 2D1N. An example route of Taka Makassar, Manta Point, Padar, Pink Beach and Komodo Island.
- 3D2N. The printed route: Sebayur, Manta Point, Taka Makassar, Padar, Pink Beach or Long Beach, Komodo or Rinca, Kalong, Kelor and Manjarite.
- 4D3N and 5D4N. The 3D2N stops with more room, Rinca on a morning of its own, and a set-up dinner on the beach.
Only the 3D2N is printed day by day. The others are example routes built from the same stops, and on every one of them the captain agrees the order with you and changes it with the weather and the tide.
Choosing stops that fit your party
Choose stops by the legs and the swimmers in your party, not by the photographs. Padar is the longest climb at 25 to 45 minutes to the main viewpoint, Kelor is shorter and steeper, and the Komodo and Rinca walks run from 30 minutes to two hours by the trail you pick.
On the reef, Taka Makassar and Pink Beach suit every level. Manta Point has a strong current and suits confident swimmers in a life vest. Sebayur is an easy first snorkel on a longer route.
A family with small children will want the short Rinca trail and Kelor. A photography party will want Padar at sunrise and Kalong at dusk. Tell us which of these you want, and we show which route holds them.
Every stop page gives times in minutes and depths in metres where the park's own notes give them, and says nothing where they do not.
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