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Day 9: To Bunaken, Night 1 Karaoke

We took a boat from Manado to Bunaken Sea Garden Resort. Once we got there and had lunch, we were free to explore the area. We spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach, and pier. We had a couple of Bintang beers while at the pier.
The calm beautiful sea

beautiful macaw


We also saw a couple of very beautiful and showy lovebirds and macaws.
Later, we had dinner and we went around to explore the bar scene by night.
We happened upon The Shack, where we drank some cheap local palm wine in copious amounts.
In a bad mood, get some vitamin sea

A local band was playing and we joined them in singing karaoke. They had a lyrics book from which we could suggest songs. We sang Hey Jude, Yellow, Fix You and other songs.

We started with Coldplay's Fix You and moved progressively to Lemonade Tree, Hey Jude, Iris and many other songs. This was while we drank many many shots of the incredibly sweet, but terrible palm wine mix. It was made by mixing two palm wine bottles with a coca cola.

The singing went on till about 11 in the night, when we had to leave. At this time, we were all quite drunk from the shots of devil's wine. The group was composed of Jess, Zack, Jake, Noah, Wardah, Andrea and I. before leaving, Zack, the Raja Bule aka king of Bules in Indonesia, promised the bar owner that he would bring a bigger crowd the following day. It began raining just as we left the bar, and we literally had to run home. What a night!
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Location: Bunaken, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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