Sten Lodge eco Homestay and Dapur Tara Flores Restaurant
Accommodation and restaurant near Labuan Bajo, on the beautiful Flores island in Indonesia
Sten Lodge eco Homestay
Eco friendly accommodation
Sten Lodge eco Homestay is located just outside of Labuan Bajo, 30 min from Labuan Bajo Komodo airport. The homestay offers eco friendly accommodation in traditional Bamboo huts. You will experience fresh air, birds singing and pure water from Mbeliling mountain during your stay here. The accommodation is ideal for winding down from the daily rush. You can read, walk, meditate or whatever interests you during your stay.
Sten Lodge eco Homestay offer three types of packages:
-Accommodation only
-Accommodation with a delicious breakfast
-Accommodation with a delicious breakfast and dinner
(If you book accommodation only, you are welcome to order breakfast and dinner later)
The breakfast always includes Coffee Manggarai or Herbal Tea and fresh fruits. Added to that, are breakfast daily specials. The dinner can be either with chicken or tofu/tempeh as vegetarian alternative.
Dapur Tara Flores Restaurant
Flores food prepared over open fire
Dapur Tara Flores Restaurant is located within the Sten Lodge eco Homestay area. We are a community based traditional Flores restaurant that specializes in traditional Flores food. The ingredients come mainly from our organic gardens or from our surrounding farmers.
Everything is prepared over wood fire with Love and Smile. You can enjoy Dapur Taras Lunch in our garden or in the dining area.
If you just passing by, visit us anytime for a Manggarai coffee, Herbal coffee or Herbal tea
We invite small or big groups to enjoy our amazing traditional Flores food in the peaceful surroundings of Pesari Valley.
If you want to come and enjoy are delicious lunch with smoked chicken and bamboo rice we need your reservation and a deposit of 50% latest 6pm the day before you want to enjoy the lunch
Sten Lodge eco Homestay
Accommodation
The bamboo huts are equipped with mosquito nets for peaceful nights. The balcony gives you a beautiful mountain and garden view. Choose between double bed or twin beds. Nights are cool, which give you a pleasant sleep.
Natural Environment
The area within Sten Lodge has organic gardens with vegetables and fruits. You are surrounded by fruit trees and medicinal herbs wherever you walk. The air is pure and everywhere you can hear and watch beautiful birds. You can enjoy your breakfast and dinner outside or in the dining area. During your stay, you can walk around in our organic gardens, relax in one of the hammocks, or in one of the Bale-Bales.
Walking barefoot as healing therapy
How often do you send love to your feet? These precious feet that always support you and carry you through the entire life. Give them the love they deserve by walking around in the natural gardens of Sten Lodge and Dapur Tara Flores.
Wearing shoes every day has made our feet sensitive. Our feet love to be massaged, walking barefoot touching mother earth now and then. Feet are also maps of the human body. Acupressure points in the feet correspond to glands, organs and muscles in our body. Thus, soreness in specific points of the feet reflects imbalance in the corresponding organ, gland or structure of the body.
Walking barefoot on mother earth is a beautiful way to reconnect with the earth element of the natures five elements, earth, water, fire, air and space, and thereby heal us. It is a cure for our disconnection from mother earth. It is like hugging our mother. Barefoot walking is also a good therapy for knee pain, stiffness in the joints, back pain. In addition to that, digestion improves drastically by the acupressure effect of barefoot walking.
At Sten Lodge and Dapur Tara Flores you have the possibility to reconnect to mother earth. Give love and natural massage to your feet. Everything is built with natural materials, stone, bamboo, grass and wood. The paths in the gardens are made with flat stones from our land. The floors in the bamboo huts are made from bamboo. It’s a perfect place for walking barefoot to heal and reconnect to mother nature.
Water is precious – water is healing
At Sten Lodge and Dapur Tara Flores we are privileged regarding water. We have pure water in abundance from Mount Mbeliling. Furthermore, we have two small rivers flowing through our land.
Without water there is no life. The human body contains 60-65% of water, so we should be closely connected with the water element, but are we connected with ourselves? It can help us get to know and feel ourselves better, if we are more connected with water
Many of us, take water for granted, and we use water, without reflecting on how precious it is. Water has so many wonderful properties. In Ayurveda, water is belongs to Kapha dosha. Kapha associates with love and compassion.
In Yoga, water belongs to the second of the seven chakras (energy centres) in the spine. Through this chakra, we connect to the water element, and the aspects of flow, change and sexuality. If we are disconnected from this chakra, we may experience jealousy and guilt. We might also feel shame of our body or sexuality. In addition to that, water is connected with wisdom and intuition.
A pleasant way you can connect to the water element is to sit in silence by water. It can be a waterfall, a lake or a river. Furthermore you can take a mindful shower. Close your eyes and feel how water flows over your body. Then, imagine how it washes away stress and anything that no longer serves you.
At Sten Lodge and Dapur Tara Flores, you have plenty of time to connect with the water element. First you take a mindful shower in the morning. After the shower drink a cup of herbal tea. Eat some juicy fruits from our gardens, and sit by the small river and feel the flow of water.
Dapur Tara Flores Restaurant
Dapur Tara Flores lunch menu
-Smoked chicken
-Bamboo rice
-Crispy Papaya
-Lomak
-Pineapple sambal
-Coffee or Tea
Social projects
Under the name Anak Alam Flores, Sten Lodge and Dapur Tara Flores runs several initiatives to increase the education level of primary school children in Flores.
Sten Lodge eco Homestay and Dapur Tara Flores have received the Indonesian certification of CHSE (Cleanliness, Health, Safety, Environment)
info( @ )stenlodge.com
info( @ )dapurtara.com
Phone: +62 823 4004 5561
WhatsApp: +62 813 3722 9724
Melo, Liang Ndara, Labuan Bajo
West Manggarai Regency, Flores
Nusa Tenggara Timur
86754 Indonesia