Flores itself has long enchanted visitors. The Portuguese first sent traders and friars to this small Indonesian island back in the 1500’s. The Dutch eventually followed, buying Flores for 200,000 Florins from the Portuguese around 1850. The Japanese stepped in just before World War II broke out. And finally, as if these invasions weren’t enough, Flores dominated world headlines in the early 1990’s when a huge earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale killed over 2,500 people

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