Munene, the journey...

The day began with an elaborately laid breakfast at 9am. The camp opposite our own got visited by a famous orangutan, called Jackie and her young. So we went to check them out. Add caption We played in the water for some time, then we crossed the river a couple of times to the waterfall. The waterfall was beautiful, cool, refreshing. At the waterfall, I was crowned the Lord, King Raja himself by one of the guides. He made kingly garb from leaves and vines. We played some more in the water, and then went back to our campsite. We had a fruit snack, lunch and then broke camp. We rafted down the river to our hotel. It was loadsa fun. We competed with the other teams to get to the hotel. Having started last, our raft boat was able to make up for the lost time, and was leading at some time. In the end, we came second after a closely-fought battle with the leading team. We got back to our rooms, and I changed and I am here writing this post. We are supposed to prepare f...

The day began at 9am after breakfast. We rode our boat back to Manado and back to the Aryaduts hotel where we had left the rest of the luggage. I was still feeling nauseous and a bit ill, but I took it in stride. At 1pm, we left for the Coral Triangle Initiative. The presentation was a bit dry, and when we left the 2-hour presentation, we were still confused about what CTI does. By this time, I was starving because I hadn't had lunch and I had not eaten most of my breakfast. We went to a local restaurant close to the hotel, which Zack recommended we try the grilled fish. It was a decent meal, and I left still confused about how big the fish was. It was almost snake-like, with muscle and a lot of flesh. Later, we returned to the hotel to prepare for the following day and catch up on my journal.

Woke up at 7am, and began preparing my bags to check out of the cottage. Once, I had breakfast, I joined the rest of the team to Bali Hot Springs. name says it all fried plantain and ice cream! awesome Mt Batur in the background, an infinity pool The journey there was beautiful as usual. But even more beautiful was Lake Batur from up close, with Mt. Batur in the background. It was amazingly beautiful. The spring pool was really cool. There were elephants spewing hot water. The pool was really warm and nice, and relaxing. Taryn, Andrea and I had 3hours of relaxing pool time, while Julie and Annisah had massages and spa treatments. Later, we bade Bali goodbye as we flew to Manado in North Sulawesi. We stayed at Aryaduts Hotel for the night, in preparation to leave for Bunaken the following day.