Looks like simple skip and jump, right? This week I traveled to West Nusa Tenggara. A small town by Indonesian standards with 150,000 inhabitants, Bima is located right on the coast of the island of Sumbawa.
Indonesia is deceptively big, and it is easy to under-estimate a simple journey. Thanks to the cancelation of my morning flight, I had to fly out late Tuesday evening, stay overnight in an airport hotel in Lombok and get up at 4:30 a.m. for the early morning flight to Bima. Although the travel is not uncomfortable at all, it can be time consuming. I left my home in Jakarta at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday only to arrive in Bima at 7:30 a.m. the next morning. I plowed through almost an entire novel, answered countless emails via blackberry, and was rewarded with a grand welcome, tropical island treasures, and new friends.
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