The Sula Islands are about half-way between Ternate and Ambon, and I have been stuck on them for a week. A delightful week, but a week nonetheless. How did I end up here? Well, it all seemed rather straight forward when, after leaving Morotai and sitting in my hotel room in Tobelo on Halmahera, I realised it was time to start making my way down to Ambon… If I wanted to actually be there in time for my flight out. Make my way down to Ambon in a leisurely pace that is, with a week or so to spare on Ambon itself. I would be taking boats. There are direct boats from Ternate to Ambon, but I didn’t want to spend two and a half days on a boat. So I looked at a map. I
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