Site Report: Tomahon

Visits

• 2016-03-14: Luckily, I jumped off the bus at just the right spot to get to the intended hotel. I mostly loafed around on the hotel grounds due to my aching back.
• 2016-03-15: Spent part of the day wandering around in the forest looking for the Scaly-breasted Kingfisher. There was a very unremarkable steaming crater on the top of the hill. From what I heard, the cool volcano was ready to blow, and thus was closed.
• 2016-03-16: Last day in Indonesia, so of course there is always "Scott's Crazy Airport Adventure". This time, I had spent almost all of my money. I figured that I had just enough cash on hand to get to the airport on public transit. Everything started out well as Indonesia is well equipped with public transit. I got into one of the tiny vans (I am a lot taller than most Indonesians, so all the seats seemed very small) Next was squeezing into the bus to Manado. That trip went pretty well. Oddly, I was unable to find a taxi at the bus station. A few people offered to take me by motorcycle, but due to safety concerns, I ended up in another tiny blue van wandering who knows where into the vast traffic nightmare of Manado. I had about an hour left to get to the airport, and it seemed like it was going to take years traveling there in the van. So, I rode around in the van looking out the window for a place likely to have taxis. I finally settled on the Bank of Indonesia where the security was kind enough to call a taxi. At the airport, I had just enough money left over to buy a t-shirt at the gift shop!

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Lifelists

• Asia
• World

Trips

• Indonesia