Labuan Bajo – Asean summit’s venue is the next Bali

Paradise getaway: Labuan Bajo has been called one of Indonesia’s ‘10 new Balis’, and is the gateway to the Komodo National Park. — The Straits Times/ANN

South-East Asia’s leaders are meeting this week on an enchanting island known as a “gateway to the dragons” and one of Indonesia’s “10 new Balis”.

Labuan Bajo is a once-quiet fishing town nestled in the westernmost part of Flores Island, in east Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara region.