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More and more travellers are choosing to break their cross-island
journey at the port town of SAPE . The town itself is no worse than Bima,
and staying there means you get a full night's sleep before catching the
8am ferry to Komodo and Flores. Nearby Gili Banta is a good day-trip
should you get stuck, with nice beaches and a burgeoning turtle
population. Many hotels in Sape, however, are dirty brothels, infested
with bedbugs. The best are probably the reasonably clean Friendship and
Mutiara losmen (both under $5), on the single main street that leads
down to the port.
At present there are two ferries to Labuhanbajo on Flores, stopping in
Komodo every day except Friday. The larger ferry (Rp17,500) is more
spacious and relatively clean, with a tourist-class deck for an extra
Rp3000. The other ferry (Rp11,100) is slow and overloaded and some
prefer to wait in Sape for an extra day rather than subject themselves
to it. The trip from Sape to Labuhanbajo through the tempestuous Sape
and Lintah straits takes nine to twelve hours.
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