Ende, Indonesia
Flores is 8,000 miles from home and over 6 degrees south of the equator. It is a volcanic island with lush verdant, jungle covered hills, very like St Lucia in the Caribbean. Judging from the ethnicity of the islanders they are more australasian than oriental.The island was the home of the Flores Hobbit named Homo Floresiensis. Bones of several of these creatures were recently discovered. They date back only 18,000 years. The Flores hobbits were only 1m tall, no ...
