Welcome to the jungle!!!

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Dear all,
I am now back in Manado...the main town in North Sulawesi. I spent nine days diving with Lumbalumba and it was amazing! The day before yesterday I left all my friends there and got dropped off on Bunaken Island. This is a small island...mostly made up of jungle and surrounded by mangrove.
Anyway the first room that I had booked was full of insects so I moved on to somewhere else. The rooms on the island are quite open air and anything can come in so you have to sleep under a net. I shared my room with three huge crickets, ( about 15cm!!!) mosquitos and the occasional bat. I was lucky though as some people said that it was common for crabs to end up in your room!!
Yesterday I got the boat back to the mainland. We stopped off and had an impromptu tour of a local school and all of the children were very eager to test out their English skills. I am now staying in town and basically looking into where to head to next as my flight out of here is not for another two weeks.
Take care,
Wendy
xxx

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