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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Labuan Bajo - delayed


This boat was right next to us when we came ashore
 by dinghy. Fish is drying for dinner already.
 (Delayed due to coverage) Labuan Bajo Anchorage 08 29 South and 119 52 East Mangagarai Barat District and it’s 162 small islands.


We decided to miss Nagekeo Anchorage go right trough to see Komodo Dragons for couple of days North Lombok ahead of time and all the other boats and than into Bali for some civilization which we needed. As soon as we arrived in Labuan Bajo we were innandated with tour operators wanting to take us to visit Komodo dragons. A “NO”as an answer is not what they want to hear. They come before the boat is anchored which is not an a good time. Anchoring is important a lot depends on it. Well than there is the waiting game and this one lasted for hours like 5-7 hours in hot sun was nothing for them to wait.

Challenging and not what you need after a long trip.

The city itself was smallish and dirty. We did find one good restaurant which we had no pleasure in dining in ages. The prices were high and the food and ambience great.

The next destination now Komodo National Park.

A beautiful old lady selling dry fish.Can you get used to that smell...don't know
truly


Seems that 3 things are always present wherever we go - rubbish and the smell
( what you see here is very organised rubbish)dry fish and the smell
and really looooongand really loud muslim prayers
even in 90% Christian areas.

Labuan Bajo -the city. Truly hoping that 162 islands will be different than this.







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