INDONESIA

The traditional village Buggies that exotic in Maumere Flores

The traditional village Doka 20 km from the city of Maumere, can be taken with four wheels vehicle or two wheels. If you go to the village, Doka during the journey will be served by the with the green hill scenery and also the upcoming turns. To the condition of the road to the location is classified as good but is not too wide, therefore trip using four wheels not particularly can accelerate quickly, especially if other lorry as public transportation that usually toward the village Doka.

This area is popular with the community that has expertise made traditionally woven with colors and patterns are typical. By the government, Doka became one of the villages that developed and built for tourism village that is on the island of Flores as some other villages. This commences from the help Kornelis Djawa, a originators tourism. Since 1997 happened the development in the village of Doka, various art culture continuously displayed as a form of tourism promotion and the knowledge of indigenous peoples local culture. Since 2010, children from Kornelis Djawa named Cletus Lopez continue the struggle of his father to continue to develop the village Dako, now many people know and come to this village. Usually every tourists who come will be greeted with traditional dance and can directly see the beauty of woven cloth made by the villagers Doka. Life in the village of Doka is currently a little mixed with modernity but in this tradition, they still defended.

Every visitor who came to the village Doka can feel the warmth and hospitality community, this is reflected from each of the welcoming residents to tourists in the form of a Welcoming dance, typical food and drink dishes and also show the making of cloth girdle that become Doka Village.

Dancing Tuare Tala'u

It has become customary village Doka citizens to welcome the guests who came with a welcoming dance. Dancing Tuare Tala'u is dances are usually done as a form of welcoming. Initially, the first dance Tuare Tala'u only carried out to welcome the soldiers who returned from the war in the state of the win, but now the dance performed to welcome the coming of the guests.

The dance is done by some people five people holding a wedge of bamboo then some women around it while dancing while mengepit wood blade tied with the tail feathers of horses and colorful cloth, on the fingers in them there are a series of flowers and sweeping the brandishing 'according to traditional music and the hornets played drum. At the time of bamboo enforced, a soldier will ride the bamboo, he then rotating the roll dance. While the other, underpins bamboo to be established. Each of the dancers using the black belt cloth.

The Traditional Belt cloth

Other attraction in the village of Doka is a cloth girdle made local people especially women using natural colors and patterns are typical. Each of the creation process can be seen here, ranging from shuttle, thread, coloration to weave. All done with the traditional way. Natural coloring for the fabric using natural materials such as pure Noni juice, acid, greedy, indigo, etc. all this material is derived from the forest in the hills around the Village Doka.

The fabric of the cloth girdle that has been completed will be displayed siting a bamboo bars extending in special rooms, tourists can view and select directly if interested to buy. The offered prices vary depending on the fabric type and size, price ranges between 250 thousand - 2 million, the price enough suitable, see how complicated and long process of making from the thread to become a cloth.