Maumere Of Flores tourism: April 2012

Wuring Fisherman Village

Wuring village

The village located at 8 km west of Maumere town this is one of the unique villages in Maumere with the entire house like build on the sea water. The character of the building is the make from bamboo and wood. With the name fisherman village; of course most of the people there are fisherman and a go they comes from Bugis and Bajo ethnic (south of Sulawesi Island). And most of the people are Muslim, they were sailed to another island to search the fish and build their house for stayed. In Flores Island they were stayed in near on the beach. In Wuring village you can find the way of life from the people when with their houses on the sea water. In there also you can see the how to make the sailing boat from the wood. And there you can joint with another peoples there to take fishing in around of the beach and of course you can bring at home the fish if you lucky. It easy to get that village you can take a Bemo from Bemo station or take by motorcycle Maumere town to there.

Watubala the Unique Village

Sarong Maumere

Ikat weaving produced

Watubala village is located in Flores island the east of Maumere town at Sikka Regency. It is 28 km by the road to Larantuka town. There are has traditional village and friendly local people with their daily activities. It is the traditional weaving it is local called “Utan” or Sarong (Indonesia). About the weaving is very different than other kinds of sarong in Indonesia it is about how to make, the tools and the motive. With the unique motive like a bird, dragon, ant, horse and another like show it their uniqueness. In their daily, the sarong usually used in the local ceremony, it used in traditional dances, weeding and almost in their activities because a time ago the local people only used the sarong as their clouds before they find the another clouds like now, and then the girls must can make the sarong before they see their husband because that is the one point in weeding ceremony they will give the sarong to their husbands family. You can buy it for gift with many kinds of type like clouds from sarong with beautiful motive and the many kinds of bags. In there also you can find the local craft the name is “Seneng” Sikka local language. It’s one of the traditional craft in Flores Island and you can just find in Maumere that’s the beautiful handicrafts for me because it make from traditional things and from unique types. The peoples use it for put the foods, money, put the anything it likes a bag, and they used at the traditional ceremony and you can buy also for the gift to your country.