Monday. I slept badly again - and even though I had to get up at 6 clock. With my 2 little loud travel alarm clocks, but it worked.
shortly before 7 clock I went away to the elevated train station, 700 or 800 meters from the hotel. The climate was so early still good enough to go on foot - I decided spontaneously. With the elevated train, I drove to Changi Airport. You check in, etc. - everything went smoothly.
The SilkAir pilots flew three and a half hours away just to the east over Borneo and 13 clock time he landed in Manado, on the northern tip of Sulawesi's. I dozed around only on the plane, too tired to read.
"Visa on Arrival" - lasted, it costs 25 U.S. dollars. Remarkably, many Western tourists were by the way the plane. They are usually good for Iceland Bunaken, a popular diving destination in the very near. Today, the officials do here at the airport immediately scan all 10 fingers - and a webcam photo of the face too. The technique is somewhat sedate here - it lasted.
Well, I was anyway something at the airport, cola drink, smoke, change money. The latter worked quite well, even with the smooth by Visa ATMs.
I then took a taxi to the Hotel Celebes, in the city, right on the harbor, with superb views from the restaurant 6th Floor - it had selected spontaneously in the Lonely Planet. 7 - 8 EUR I paid for the 13 km long taxi ride endless - endless, because the roads blocked in Manado are chaotic. Many potholes, large puddles on the road. The trip was certainly 45 minutes. Ca. 14 EUR cost me the room - aircon would have been great and it is.
I was then up inside - until the room was ready. The view over the small harbor and the city is already really nice.
Then it started to rain soon poured it just yet. I was once out to necessarily a big water bottle buy - but basically you could not go out and the puddles were sometimes 10 meters high and 10 cm deep, it was dark, all poorly lit, not all about in a city like this, where frequently missing manhole covers, etc. Well , the water I bought, but then it was over with the "outing" - despite umbrella and aquatic shoes I was pretty wet. Since I was pretty tired anyway, I slept the night long and extensive. Before I ate Mee Goreng Hotel-Restaurant still (not so good as in Singapore), but although there are here also beer (Bintang ie here), I was not in the mood.
today in any case is here with me all week - and so far still without rain. I ran a little around in the city, next to money was exchanged, at the Kentucky Fried Chicken, took a long time to find this Internet Cafe (The Gateway) - it is quite hidden in a shopping complex. Have the feeling that the time is the Internet cafe at the end, Twitter, and mobile Internet, they will probably replace the medium term.
shortly before 7 clock I went away to the elevated train station, 700 or 800 meters from the hotel. The climate was so early still good enough to go on foot - I decided spontaneously. With the elevated train, I drove to Changi Airport. You check in, etc. - everything went smoothly.
The SilkAir pilots flew three and a half hours away just to the east over Borneo and 13 clock time he landed in Manado, on the northern tip of Sulawesi's. I dozed around only on the plane, too tired to read.
"Visa on Arrival" - lasted, it costs 25 U.S. dollars. Remarkably, many Western tourists were by the way the plane. They are usually good for Iceland Bunaken, a popular diving destination in the very near. Today, the officials do here at the airport immediately scan all 10 fingers - and a webcam photo of the face too. The technique is somewhat sedate here - it lasted.
Well, I was anyway something at the airport, cola drink, smoke, change money. The latter worked quite well, even with the smooth by Visa ATMs.
I then took a taxi to the Hotel Celebes, in the city, right on the harbor, with superb views from the restaurant 6th Floor - it had selected spontaneously in the Lonely Planet. 7 - 8 EUR I paid for the 13 km long taxi ride endless - endless, because the roads blocked in Manado are chaotic. Many potholes, large puddles on the road. The trip was certainly 45 minutes. Ca. 14 EUR cost me the room - aircon would have been great and it is.
I was then up inside - until the room was ready. The view over the small harbor and the city is already really nice.
Then it started to rain soon poured it just yet. I was once out to necessarily a big water bottle buy - but basically you could not go out and the puddles were sometimes 10 meters high and 10 cm deep, it was dark, all poorly lit, not all about in a city like this, where frequently missing manhole covers, etc. Well , the water I bought, but then it was over with the "outing" - despite umbrella and aquatic shoes I was pretty wet. Since I was pretty tired anyway, I slept the night long and extensive. Before I ate Mee Goreng Hotel-Restaurant still (not so good as in Singapore), but although there are here also beer (Bintang ie here), I was not in the mood.
today in any case is here with me all week - and so far still without rain. I ran a little around in the city, next to money was exchanged, at the Kentucky Fried Chicken, took a long time to find this Internet Cafe (The Gateway) - it is quite hidden in a shopping complex. Have the feeling that the time is the Internet cafe at the end, Twitter, and mobile Internet, they will probably replace the medium term.
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