INDONESIA - SULAWESI - MANADO - LAST STOP - 4 AUGUST 2018

3 AUGUST 2018

Back at Manado, we disembarked and I found a taxi straight away. We stayed at Swiss-Bel via booking.com for 800 000R. The room was smaller but it didn't matter.

We hung around the pool, had KFC across the road and dinner at the hotel. On our previous stay the meal was small so we order more this time and this time the meals came out big. Haha!

4 AUGUST 2018

We woke at 5am, jumped in our taxi at 5:15am and was at the airport in 20 minutes. The ride is usually 45 minutes but the taxi driver was on a mission for some reason. 

Our Lion Air flight left at 6:45am and we reached Denpasar, Bali by 10:30am. On the flight we met Ruben,from Holland, who had just finished his first ever project in Makassar building at island. A great story he told.

SULAWESI, MANADO - PLANES, RAIN AND WALK - 5 JULY 2017

Nyoman picked us up for drop off at the domestic airport at 4:45am - 150 000r.

The Lion Air flight was from Denpasar to Manado with a transit in Surabaya -  flight JT 929 at 07:00 to 11:45 with 20kg luggage.

At Manado there was a fixed taxi rate to hotel of 100 000 r. Once out of the terminal the taxi representative organized the taxi and away we went. The weather was very humid and shortly after we started the rain teemed down.

We checked into our hotel, Swiss Bel. The hotel looked excellent with a majestic looking foyer and a pleasant room with a view over part of the city. The area around the hotel looked a little run down but adventurous. We settled into our room, had lunch and decided on a walk and then the rains came down again in a deluge.

We waited and waited and towards dusk decided to walk anyway. Naturally, we got wet and spent a great deal of time avoiding puddles and traffic.

We finally, reached the Megamall and wandered around until we were dry. We had the worse cappuccino ever but the guy tried so hard to make it proper that we couldn't say anything except good. He smiled and at least someone was happy. :)

At the back of the Mega Mall was a taxi stand where we caught a taxi back to the hotel and slept.