Munene, the journey...

We began the day at 9 after breakfast. After the usual logistics, we took the boat to a snorkeling spot. The water was incredibly clear and beautiful. Unfortunately, due to a hangover from the previous night's drinking, I was feeling mildly nauseous and uncomfortable with the whole water and boating business. Once we got to the snorkeling area, Adriane and Daniela did diving, while the rest of the crew did snorkeling. I had my life vest on, and was excited to try out snorkeling. Once I jumped in the water, I knew I had made a mistake. I panicked, held my breath and was terribly scared of being in the open sea with nothing to hold on to. I have never been so terrified in my life. For some reason, my whole body refused to relax, even though I was not sinking, I could not breath. I flailed my arms around and screamed for help from those around. Andrea tried encouraging me to just relax, but I was in flight mode. One of the guides held me and motioned for the boat to come...

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 ...