The time had come to leave Kanawa Island ...
After breakfast we packed our bags and loaded them into the boat. The one hour journey back to the mainland went quickly and we arrived back in the main port in Labuan Bajo.
The next challenge was to try and buy our ferry tickets to Sulawesi. A man at the port had told us the Pelni ferry office was too far to walk, so Darryl flagged down a motorcycle taxi and asked the driver to take him to the office. It turns out that the office is not far at all, in fact we walked straight past it when we looked for it a few days ago. There were no signs just a small window selling tickets. No wonder we couldn't find it! Darryl bought 2 tickets (which was a little complex too!) and asked the driver to drop him back at the port.
We needed to find a place to stay as the ferry doesn't eave Flores for 2 days. We decided to go diving in Komodo National Park tomorrow with a friendly lady we had met in Kanawa Island, who owned a dive centre. The dive centre also had a couple of rooms to rent, so that is where we stayed!
On unpacking our bags, we discovered the travel adapter was still on Kanawa. A quick phone call and it was returned to us later that day.
We needed to eat next and had some great food from the street sellers in the main street. We used the Internet to find out some information about Sulawesi before meeting our friends for dinner in the evening.
After breakfast we packed our bags and loaded them into the boat. The one hour journey back to the mainland went quickly and we arrived back in the main port in Labuan Bajo.
The next challenge was to try and buy our ferry tickets to Sulawesi. A man at the port had told us the Pelni ferry office was too far to walk, so Darryl flagged down a motorcycle taxi and asked the driver to take him to the office. It turns out that the office is not far at all, in fact we walked straight past it when we looked for it a few days ago. There were no signs just a small window selling tickets. No wonder we couldn't find it! Darryl bought 2 tickets (which was a little complex too!) and asked the driver to drop him back at the port.
We needed to find a place to stay as the ferry doesn't eave Flores for 2 days. We decided to go diving in Komodo National Park tomorrow with a friendly lady we had met in Kanawa Island, who owned a dive centre. The dive centre also had a couple of rooms to rent, so that is where we stayed!
On unpacking our bags, we discovered the travel adapter was still on Kanawa. A quick phone call and it was returned to us later that day.
We needed to eat next and had some great food from the street sellers in the main street. We used the Internet to find out some information about Sulawesi before meeting our friends for dinner in the evening.
