Day 190

Day 190

We have to wake up really early in the morning as our flight departs at 8:00, luckily we just have a short walk til the airport.

It’s a short flight in an old, small airplane, but it doesn’t move at all during the trip! It’s comforting because we are flying with Lion Air. The same company that had a plane crash last October during a domestic flight near Jakarta. Even if it’s really noisy, we spend the flight talking, it has been so long just with messages.

Once in Labuanbajo we decide to walk to the hotel, the heat is killing us. What it should have been a short walk becomes a half an hour (without shadows, but with amazing views) tour. Every few minutes a minibus stops asking if we want a drive.

When we finally reach the village we are a bit in shock. We were not expecting it to be so “less developed”. We cannot find our hotel, and the worst, we don’t see any proper building that could be a hotel. The houses are small wood shacks. Finally we find it, it’s the last building of the village! It’s small, but it faces the sea and it’s clean enough. Those are the views from the terrace:

We have something important to do, we must book the Open Water course for Maria! She will learn how to dive in one of the best spots in the world, and then, we’ll dive all together! However first she needs to take some teoretical lessons starting today.