At the beginning of the 20th century an aeroplane had to force land on one of islands in Indonesia. The pilot found very weird foot-prints and than he could see giant, so far unknown lizards. Fortunately he could take off, but when he got home, nobody did believe him.
They even suspected him of being mad. It was a military expedition that gave him the truth in 1910. It was also confirmed that indigenous people had known the lizards for centuries. In 1912 the animal was expertly described and named Varanus komodoensis by the committee of Zoo muzeum in Bogor. Varanus Komodoensis is an alert and agile predator and scavenger that can reach three meters in length and 125 kilos! In 1980 the Komodo was established National park and moreover it belongs to the index of cultural and natural inheritance UNESCO. Komodo has savanna vegetation, sugar palms; you can meet water buffalo or see the richness of bird world.
Bali has been inhabited since early prehistoric times firstly by descendants of a prehistoric race who migrated through mainland Asia to the Indonesian archipelago, thought to have first settled in Bali around 3000 BC. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west.
The First European contact with Bali is thought to have been when Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585. Dutch rule over Bali came later, was more aggressively fought for, and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku.
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