We decided to charge on to Lombok, which is an island east of Bali. We took a sloooow ferry (4 hours). The distance you travel is short enough to see land on both sides. We were told to wait at a restaurant and they would tell us when to board the ferry. We were enjoying our coffee when they started yelling, "board, go, go, hurry!" We started running with our big packs on our backs while carrying our smaller bags. As we got closer to the ferry there were locals lined up sitting on the railing also yelling, "run, run, go, go, hurry!" It wasn't until I heard one of them yell, "come on, big finish" that I realized...it was all a big joke to get a laugh out of watching the tourist run. As we
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