25 Mei 2012
It's vacation time, this time me and my friends went to Manado!. The distance between Jakarta Manado is about 4 hours, long enough for an air travel, so you should prepare your music player or other gadget to accompany you during the flight.
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| Sam Ratulangi Airport - The distance between Jakarta Manado is about 4 hours, long enough for an air travel so you should prepare your music player or other gadget to accompany you during the flight. |
At 3 pm we arrived at the airport SamRatulangi, it 's one hour earlier than jakarta's time, when we got there we are welcomed by our friends from Manado. and then we went to sea food restourant to have early dinner while waiting for beautiful sea sunset.
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| Having a nice sunset early dinner |
After the day went dark, we were taken to the hotel where we stayed at Arya Duta Hotel. After rest and refresh our bodies we decide to go out to enjoy a night of Manado city by walk till we stopped at a nice roadside coffee shops.
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| Enjoy a night of Manado city by walk till we stopped at a nice roadside coffee shops |
26 Mei 2012
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| a view from 10th floor of Arya Duta Hotel |
Good Morning! We woke up early to get ready to start our adventure at Bunaken Island, an island famous for its beautiful sea garden, of course we also do not want to miss the boat. We already gathered at the Marina port at 7 am. The ship has arrived and ready to take us across the ocean. yaahuuu!
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| This was definitely not our boat, ours was bigger and more modern :)) |
After one hour journey across the sea to Bunaken island, we were treated to the beauty of marine park through translucent glass.
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| we were treated to the beauty of marine park through translucent glass. |
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| Team Jakarta Vs Manado :) |
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| Nasi Kuning and Pisang Goreng cocol sambal |
Finally we arrived at bunaken, after breakfast with yellow rice and fried bananas with sauce -yes sauce!-, now we are getting ready to wear snorkeling equipment and of course the X-Men uniforms. We're back to boat and heading to location of beautiful coral. And after the anchor was down we immediately begin an unforgettable experience. Nemooo here I come!
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| The X-men - Let the fun begin |
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| Captured with my iPhone using Dicapac WaterCase |
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| Great time in progress |
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| Nice clean -and very very salty- water, with lot of beautiful coral and fish. |
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| Big Fish need some air :)) |
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| YES WE HAD A GREAT TIME! :-D |
After satisfied swimming with bunch of little fish, scratch some finger with coral and drink salty water we packed up again and returned to the city of Manado again. the journey continues to a beautiful sulfur lake, named Lake Linaw while enjoying a cup of hot coffee and snacks Manado fried bananas with the sauce again. looks like I started craving to eat fried bananas with the sauce. eeuuu,, but it's tasty!
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| Linaw Lake a.k.a Sulfur lake, the color always changing time by time, the green color was the rarest color we were lucky we seen one. |
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| The beautiful Linaw Lake with the ehem,, the handsome man :-P |
Finished enjoying the beautiful Lake Linaw's view now we heading to buy some souvenir and snack for our loved one. then go back to hotel and get rest.
27 Mei 2012
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| The view that probably we're not able to see everyday, God is great. |
Not much activity during our last day in Manado, we spent the day with swimming at Hotel and waiting for our friend to take us back to airport Sam Ratulangi. feels so sad when leaving Manado, even the sky started to cry as we enter the airport. :(
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| Hei we meet Iwan Fals at Executive lounge Sam Ratulangi Airport :) |
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| Good bye Manado. hope we meet again someday |
Good bye Manado you are such a beautiful city. hope we meet again someday. and thank you for our friend in Manado your are such an excellent host :)
Bunaken is such an incredible region, and the diving here is nothing short of fabulous, had the time of my life exploring Turtle City (https://dive.site/explore/site/lekuan-i-turtle-city-qY3y?), Mandolin Reef and many other cool dive spots!
BalasHapus