Riung, Indonesia - Blogabond

Snorkelling in Riung...

We got up at 7am to have breakfast, before walking to the harbour to go on our snorkelling trip, stopping off at 3 places along the way to pick up snorkelling gear that we had reserved with different people. Unfortunately, the other 4 travellers we were going with took all the best...

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chrischarly on June 14, 2011 from Riung, Indonesia

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

Impossible Riung...

It felt like today we were just banging our heads up against a wall. Trying to book or get anything sorted here in Riung feels like it’s impossible! We wanted to go on a snorkelling trip for tomorrow but it was so difficult to organise! We met 4 other travellers yesterday who also wanted to...

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chrischarly on June 13, 2011 from Riung, Indonesia

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

Helpful local information

Well we were really achy this morning. It was such a struggle to get up and out of bed, but we had no choice as we still had to find out times for the bus to Riung as we couldn’t face getting up for the 6am bus. The locals all told us different times:- ‘There is only 1 bus and it is at 6am’...

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chrischarly on June 12, 2011 from Riung, Indonesia

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

Never to be Forgotten!

In the morning as we woke up, Lenaic alerted me to the second of two large spiders that we had seen the night before. I acted swiftly to remove the danger with a flip-flop and we could breathe again, Lenaic has a phobia of spiders and "small beasts" you see. Drama over, we walked to the small...

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Lenameets50 on January 17, 2010 from Riung, Indonesia

from the travel blog: Indonesia & Malaysia et al 2010

Kelimutu to Riung

The second day started much the same way as the first but with an earlier wake-up call. At 7am we were on our way up to the three lakes of Kelimutu to see the most famous natural phenomena on Flores. Steeped in legend, it is a spiritual home for the people where sacrifices have long been madein...

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Lenameets50 on January 16, 2010 from Riung, Indonesia

from the travel blog: Indonesia & Malaysia et al 2010

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