Sunday, February 01, 2015

Back on the road again .... soon

In 4 weeks from today, I will once again get back to Singapore. Which I guess is my most visited city and country in Asia, I like it, but the main reason for my yearly return is that it is the cheapest place I can fly into in SE Asia. It is also a good place to get adjusted to the time zone, some good shopping options, good food and a good place to meet up with some people on Couchsurfing.com, since it almost daily is some meeting going on in Singapore.

On this years trip will I be revisiting places that I have been to before, almost entirely, the only new place that I will be going to is Coron, North Palawan in the Philippines. But that is on the second half of my trip, and before I go there I will have been some other places.

After a couple of days in Singapore, I will be flying to Indonesia - Bali, again, and go straight out to Nusa Lembongan, that I visited for the first time last year. It is just outside Bali, but a lot more relaxing, and they have great diving option. I will stay at Secret garden and dive with Big Fish diving. Good corrals, good fish life and also my favourite big fish, Manta Rays.


From Nusa Lembongen, after a night on Bali, will I once again fly to Labuan Bajo, Flores for more diving in Komodo National park, as always staing at Golo Hilltop. I will be doing day dives with Dive Komodo, and hopefully a 5 days dive safari with Current Junkies. I got a place on the boat, but they need more divers on the boat than me for it to happened. Fingers crossed for that, if the safari get cancelled, I have to figure out something else to do. No problem.

If all things goes as planned in Flores, I will be flying back to Bali for 2 nights before I continue to the Philippines. I have on purpose a 2 day buffer on Bali before I continue to the Philippines, since I got stranded on Flores last year when my flight got cancelled, and I had to buy some new plane tickets to got out of Flores and to continue to Kuala Lumpur. I lost some money on that, and forgot to claime it from the incurance company after I came home. To late now.


In Philippines will I join a sail trip from Coron to El Nido, and I am really looking foreward to it, it looks great. After the sailtrip will I be staying for a week in El Nido, been there before, and I liked it. Quite little town in the north of Palawan, will do some more diving, swim, kayak maybe.. see when I get there, just chill out.

I will then fly back to Singapore from Palawan, and finnish the trip of the year with 3 days in Singapore, as normal. :)

As I usually do a plan the trip before I go, flights and accomodations are booked. Was thinking about just to go with the flow, but I did not manage that. Counting down, and looking foreward to be on the way for new experiences and fun.