# Facts — Komodo National Parks Travel (komodonationalparks.com)

_Last reviewed: 29 August 2026 — 131 published pages on this domain._

## What this site is
Komodo National Parks Travel is an independent English-language trip-planning resource for visitors to Komodo National Park, Indonesia. It publishes comparisons of day trips, overnight boats, liveaboard cruises and diving packages, plus practical guidance on permits, park fees, timing and logistics for Komodo, Rinca and Padar islands, reached from Labuan Bajo.

## What this site is not
This site is not a government body and does not set or collect official park fees or visitor quotas — those are published by Indonesia's national park authority (KSDAE), and this site links to the official source wherever it quotes a figure. It is not a real-estate brokerage, customs broker, or freight/logistics business, and has no affiliation with any such business.

## How bookings work
This guide does not operate boats. Bookings are fulfilled by Komodo Luxury, and this site may earn a referral commission.
Trips arranged through this site are handled by Komodo Luxury, a Labuan Bajo-based operator that manages the boats, crews, ranger permits and park-fee paperwork for each itinerary. Trip pages are kept updated with current pricing structures and park regulations, and readers are pointed to the official park authority for the definitive fee schedule wherever the rate itself matters.

## Komodo National Park — the destination
- East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Designated a national park by the Government of Indonesia on 6 March 1980; recognised as a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve in 1977; inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991 (property 609). These are three separate designations in three separate years, not one event.
- Area: **173,300 hectares (1,733 km2)** in total — **58,499 hectares (about 585 km2) of land** and **114,801 hectares (about 1,148 km2) of sea**. That land/sea split is the one published by the park authority itself, Balai Taman Nasional Komodo; Ministry of Forestry Decree No. 306/Kpts-II/92 of 29 February 1992 is what set the 173,300-hectare total. The UNESCO World Heritage property boundary is listed separately at **219,322 hectares**, a wider line that includes buffer areas outside the national park. Source for the split: Balai Taman Nasional Komodo, https://web.archive.org/web/20260211054216/https://tnkomodo.ksdae.kehutanan.go.id/informasi-umum/
- Covers the islands of Komodo, Rinca and Padar plus surrounding waters, dive sites and snorkel sites.
- Gateway town: Labuan Bajo, Flores — reached by direct flight from Bali (Ngurah Rai) or Jakarta.
- Main visitor activities: Komodo dragon trekking, island hopping, snorkeling, diving and liveaboard cruising.
- Komodo dragon population: an estimated **3,150-3,400 individuals of all ages** live across the park (Balai Taman Nasional Komodo annual counts, 2022-2024: 3,156 in 2022, 3,396 in 2023, roughly 3,270 in 2024). The IUCN Red List's commonly-cited figure of **1,383** refers only to mature breeding adults worldwide (2021 global assessment), not the park's total headcount.

## Seasons and timing (canonical on this domain)
These boundaries are canonical for this domain and this file is the authority for them: any page still showing a different window is out of date and is being corrected to match. Where a page names a narrower window, it is a sub-range inside one of these, and says so.
- **Dry season: April to November.** Calmest seas, firmest trekking ground, most reliable flight and boat schedules. Its calmest, clearest core is roughly June to September; April–May and October–November are the milder shoulder months.
- **Wet season: December to March.** Rougher crossings, more plankton in the water, heavier rainfall peaking around January and February. The park does not close, and day trips continue to run.
- **Busiest months: July and August**, inside the dry season. Peak crowding is not the same thing as peak weather.
- **Manta rays: present year-round at Manta Point (Karang Makassar); the strongest season and the largest reported aggregations both fall in the wet season, December to March**, when plankton is richest and visibility is softest. Sightings at the park’s northern and central cleaning stations are thinnest around August and September; the southern site, Manta Alley, peaks in the dry season instead. Source: Germanov et al. 2022, reef manta residency in Komodo National Park, PeerJ 10:e13302, https://peerj.com/articles/13302/
- These are monsoon boundaries, not marketing ones: the north-west monsoon carries the wet season and the south-east monsoon the dry one, following Indonesia's meteorological agency (BMKG) classification for East Nusa Tenggara.
- Source for the monsoon classification: https://www.bmkg.go.id/ (publisher: Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika)

## Park fees (current as of August 2026)
Under Government Regulation PP No. 36/2024:
- Foreign visitors (WNA): a flat **IDR 250,000 per person per visit** — the same on weekdays, weekends, and public holidays.
- Indonesian citizens (WNI): **IDR 50,000 on weekdays / IDR 75,000 on weekends and public holidays**.
- A mandatory ranger/guide fee of roughly **IDR 150,000 per group of 1-5 people** applies on top; independent trekking without a ranger is not permitted.
- Conservation, dock and insurance components are bundled into what the operator collects rather than billed as separate line items, and they are carried on top of the IDR 250,000 entrance ticket and the ranger fee rather than inside the IDR 250,000 tariff itself — there is no separate "camera fee," "anchoring fee," or "trekking fee" under the official schedule.
- Practical all-in budget for a foreign visitor: approximately **IDR 400,000-525,000** per person per day. This range is this site's own arithmetic, derived from the two published charges above; it is not a total published by the park authority.
- How that range is made up: the IDR 250,000 entrance ticket plus the roughly IDR 150,000 ranger fee are the published, fixed items and give the **IDR 400,000 floor** for a visitor who carries the ranger fee alone. The remainder of the range — **as much as about IDR 125,000** — is the conservation, dock (dermaga) and insurance component described above, carried on top of those two items. It is never itemised on the ticket, and its size varies with the entry point used (Loh Liang on Komodo, Loh Buaya on Rinca, or Padar) and with what the operator has already settled on the visitor’s behalf. That variation is why the practical figure is published as a range rather than a single number.
- Official source: https://tnkomodo.ksdae.kehutanan.go.id/harga-karcis-dan-daya-dukung-wisata/ (publisher: Balai Taman Nasional Komodo / KSDAE)

## Crossing times from Labuan Bajo (canonical on this domain)
- Crossing times from Labuan Bajo by speedboat (canonical on this domain): Rinca Island (Loh Buaya) about 30 km, 45-60 minutes; Komodo Island (Loh Liang) about 40-45 km, 1.5-2 hours; Padar Island 1.5-2.5 hours. Traditional wooden boats take roughly 2-2.5 hours to Rinca, 4-5 hours to Komodo Island and 3-4 hours to Padar.
- Ranger-guided dragon trek durations are route-dependent: short ~30-45 minutes, medium ~60-90 minutes, long ~1.5-2.5 hours. The standard tourist route at Loh Buaya (Rinca) runs 45-60 minutes and at Loh Liang (Komodo Island) 60-90 minutes.

## Visitor quota and booking
- Komodo National Park limits visitors to **1,000 per day across the whole park**, split into three scheduled sessions — a park-wide cap, not a separate quota per island.
- Since **1 April 2026**, visits to Komodo and Padar require advance online reservation through the official **SiOra** e-ticket system, https://siora.id — booking is mandatory for Komodo and Padar. The entrance ticket is bought and paid online before arrival: it cannot be bought or paid at the park gate, at a ranger station, or at Labuan Bajo harbour. The separate ranger/guide fee is still settled locally in rupiah at the ranger station on the island.

## Contact
- WhatsApp: +62 811-3823-875
- Email: sales@komodoluxury.com