Horrible bus journey... but with arrack

This morning we woke up at 5:40am and caught the bus we had booked to go to Labuan Bajo. Things didn’t start off great as the bus was over ½ an hour late, which annoyed us as we had gotten up so early!

On the bus

Once on the bus, 5km down the road the bus parked up and we sat and waited for almost 2 hours before the driver finally decided to leave! He said to us, that he would not go until the bus was completely full!

Chris and the bus conductor

We were so angry as we knew it would take 10 hours anyway! Eventually though we all persuaded him to go and it really was the bus journey from hell! (Well for me anyway as the boys really enjoyed themselves though as they started drinking arrack, which is a local spirit at 9am with the bus conductor!)

Isa and Chris looking exhausted!

But I have the stinkiest of colds and was feeling really sick, so just after half way I ran off the bus to throw up in small forest. Yuck. The journey was so bumpy and up and down mountains and on a small bus seriously uncomfortable!

Waiting for the road to clear

We finally arrived at Labuan Bajo at around 7pm to then start to look for accommodation and there were loads to choose from thankfully.

Chris with bintang!

But here is nowhere like the rest of Flores as it is so touristy and many people hassle you to book tours with them and from around 30 companies to choose from we didn’t know where to start so decided to leave it until morning and finally got left alone.

written by

chrischarly on June 16, 2011 from Labuan Bajo, Indonesia

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

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