We spent the last night at Gearsons place on Sunday. The plan was to sleep well, for the previous night spent at the beach (although amazing) was rather tiring, and the next days were to be dedicated for travelling. Sitting still by the way is surprisingly energy consuming. However in the evening we were accompanied by a Canadian couple and ended up hanging out with them till midnight. Gearson was as drunk as ever, and his stories get crazier with each shot of sopi he drowned. The wakeup was at 3:30, so our series of sleepless nights rounded up to two. The following morning we flew from Kei to Ambon, Ambon to Makassar and Makassar to Manado.
Manado seemed like a nice place. People were different too, in a way that they looked you in the eye, smiled and said their hellomisters in a soft tone. The typical Indonesian way is to go haywire, jump around and shout as loud as you can until you’re noticed. From Manado we wanted to take a bus to Gorontalo, and as our hotel staff knew there would be only one bus a day leaving at 6:00 from a far away terminal we ended up having a third night with little sleep. In the morning we found out that there was approximately 5 buses leaving every 5 minutes, but as we already were at the station we decided to go on anyway.
The bus trip took nine hours. We somehow got off at the wrong station 30 km before Gorontalo and had to take an ojek (aka tuk tuk / rickshaw) to town. After about one and a half hours of driving we found our guesthouse and decided to sign in and finally get a good nights sleep. We wanted to take a boat to the Togean-islands, and the boat was to set sail on Wednesday. Somehow the schedule had changed and the boat was to leave in two hours. Good thing having vague or no plans is that changing them is really easy. So we decided to take the boat (12 hours) and spent an extra 10 euros each to get a cabin for the night.
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| View from Tuna Tomini |
It’s now 7 o’clock and I’m wide-awake. I had a good 10 hours of sleep in our clean and air-conditioned cabin. We’re supposed to dock in Wakai in about three hours, from which we’ll take a smaller boat to the Kadidiri-island. More from there
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