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It's the custom in Ngada villages like this one to sacrifice an animal for dinner when guests arrive. And as we were staying with this family for the night they got hold of a chicken. After prayers were said and entrails were read our host cooked it in a pot on the fire. We sat on the floor along with the family and had a dinner of rice, vegetables, sambal, (which accompanies everything in Indonesia) a chicken/coconut soup, and of course the chicken itself.

Flores is not that big but there are 5 ethnic groups and 5 different languages spoken on the island. And I don't mean different dialects - I mean completely different languages. But everyone knows Bahasa Indonesia as well as their local language so that makes communication a lot easier.