Lembeh Resort Bitung

Ok so this is where the travel stories get a bit more interesting......<br><br>So after a great night out with Nitya, which ended at a decent hour (1am), I headed to my hotel and had a great night sleep and seemed to have recovered from any kind of minor jet lag I might have had from Mumbai.  My excitement about the "snorkelling holiday" (since I couldnt dive) was somewhat hampered however when Neet my diving instructor called me and asked where I was on the Sat morning.....I was still ...

Our last field site in Indonesia was in North Sulawesi--we'll let the photos tell the story. Sadly our trip to Indonesia is quickly drawing to a close. We have had an amazing time here and have been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of almost every ...

Some cities make no sense and Manado definitely is one of them. In just a few weeks they are having a World Conference for the Coral Triangle and the whole city is getting ready to receive around 20 to 50 thousand tourists . Nevertheless you can only find 2 o 3 travel agencies and they only sell local trips, don't ask me why but that is the way it is. For this situation I had to waste a night in this ugly place, well what can you expect out of a place where they sell ...

Last day of diving! It has been an absolutely amazing time diving in the muck here in the Lembeh Straight. The amount of creatures we've seen, ranging from cute to just plain bizarre, was unbelievable. What it lacked in bottom features compared to Bunaken, it more than made up for in sea life. Diving the old familiar silty bottom of Puget Sound won't be quite ...

Frog fish heaven! Abner knew we wanted to see more frog fish, and man did he ever deliver today. These are some of the funniest looking fish ever! Lucas and company had to steal some of their Star Wars creature ideas from these guys. They totally look like they could have been in the famous cantina ...

" I am writing about ten magical days of diving aboard a brand new diving vessel: Paradise Dancer, part of the Peter Hughes organization - http://www.peterhughes.com/destination/ northsulawesi As luck would have it, we were one of the very first groups aboard, and even though it is designed to carry 18 passengers - THERE WERE ONLY SIX!!!! Paradise ...

Experience la plus decevante possible en terme d'animaux sauvages, dans un parc national pourtant celebrissime du fait de la presence de tarsiers, le plus petit singe du monde. Franchement, suivre un "guide", ne prononcant pas un mot mais neanmoins obligatoire, le long d'un "sentier" (piste de 4x4 boueuses) parfaitement marque traversant la "foret" (oui c'est vrai il y a des arbres, so what?) a la "decouverte" des ...

... the best diving in Indonesia. There are pristine coral reefs with lots of sea life all around. We each dove for 5 days and used the other 5 days to relax (mostly - there was the one day we had to make a day trip into Manado to use internet and see a travel agent). During diving days we went out at 9, returned for lunch and then went on a second dive at 2. Although we saw many sea creatures our favorite was the ...