Day 191

Day 191

Merry Christmas! Today we’ll be the strangest Christmas ever. It is around 30 degrees, far from home and we’ll not get the typical fest with our families! However we miss our loved ones, it feels supecool to spend Christmas in Indonesia!!!

Maria has a lot to learn still, so she will spend the morning at the school. Meanwhile we will hang out searching for a plan for the next days. We want to see the Komodo Monsters so we need to get a safe boat. On our way to an small agency we are surprised by a siren. It’s constant, getting louder and it’s frightening us (tsunami?). When we get to see what’s going on we can’t help smiling. It’s some kind of Christmas parade!!!! The locals are trying to celebrate Christmas in “our way” (USA way) even if they are muslims! Everyone with a car or a bike is outside in the parade kind of dressed like Santa Claus, honking and cheering to the people in the street. Amazing!

After our investigations to get to Komodo we don’t have good news. We have been speaking with Dorothy and Isa from Neren Diving School about it, an they recommend to us to avoid using any local agency. It’s just too dangerous. During the last month some boats sank, the last one just some days ago and they could not find everybody. Thinking about what to do next we go to have our Christmas’ lunch with Maria. It’s a special day so we’ll have a special menu! I can’t rememeber the last time we ate so good.

Instead of our typical “turrón” we’ll get some exotic deserts!

Afterwards we walk a bit around the village ‘til we see the sunset.