Smooth traveling with Bastianos Transport: Bunaken to Manado by boat,
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| Bunaken village with mosque and church |
Manado is a dirty old town
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| at Manado Pier |
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| the typical Manado bus |
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| School's out |
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| North Sulawesi, christian land |
Minibus from Manado to Bitung on the East Coast,
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| the road |
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| outskirts of Bitung |
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| Bitung port |
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| Bitung port |
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| Bitung port |
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| road to Bitung port |
I arrive more or less at lunch time.
A group of Spanish is already there. I have lunch with the two Singaporians Elyne and Charlton, who I know from Bunaken already. They arrived yesterday, Elyne is „upset“, there is no beach at Lembeh Resort ;-) , but great muck diving.
Since I don’t dive today, I have an early Bintang and a lazy afternoon. Later, Gemma arrives. She organizes the tour to Raja Ampat and is the cruise director, together with Eduardo, who will arrive late at night, due to missing a flight in Kuala Lumpur (this sounds familiar to me, somehow…;-))
Thomas, the swiss Resort Manager gives Gemma and me a resort briefing.
WiFi is slightly better than at Bunaken. Good, I want to finish that Sipadan blogpost!
I check into my room, luckily made an upgrade to AC, so I get room number 8 with beautiful view from my balcony over the Lembeh Strait.
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| The Lembeh Straits as seen from my room |
For dinner I join the spanish group, who will be my travel companions for the next ten days. It is hard for me to follow the conversation, my spanish got a bit rusty, covered by the many different flavors of English I hear during the last weeks.
So many new faces and names to memorize…
Set up Equipment and to bed early. Start diving tomorrow. This guy will wake me up:
See you under water
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