Cruises from Pulau Moyo National Park
Pulau Mayo is a 30km long island lying just east of Bali and Lombok, and north of Sumbawa island in Indonesia, in the West Nusa Tenggara province. It lies under the shadow of Mt Tambora (2851m) to the east, which exploded in 1815. The eruption was one of the most powerful in recorded history, ejecting 10 billion tonnes of rock, and led to Europe’s Year Without a Summer in 1816. The island is mostly uninhabited, the few thousands there living by farming and fishing. Read more
In 1986 a Pulau Moyo National Park was proclaimed to conserve and protect the extraordinary vegetation, its uniqueness and the many animal species: 86 species of birds, 21 bat species, long tail macaques, wild pigs, deer, barking deer, monitor lizards, wild oxen, and wild boars).