Day 7 29/5/26

It seems that this trip isn’t meant to be. I hope by the end of this blog that everything‘s gone to plan.

My pre booked taxi driver is meant to pick me up at 4 am. He just messaged to say he’s waiting for me at the airport I’m like no you need to pick me up at the hotel and take me to the airport, which is an hour and 10 minutes away.
He misread the message from his Company and said he will be 45 minutes oh dear am I gonna miss my flight?
Yay he made it to me in 45 mins and back to the airport in an hour. I made the flight woo hoo ! He did drive like he’d stolen it but that’s pretty much the norm here. Yeah I’ll over take the lorry , the bikes and cars coming towards me will move over 😂
My luggage was overweight as expected as when I had to change flight my allowance went from 20kg to 15kg. I managed to put quite a lot in my backpack which broke my back but still had to pay. All is good and I’m here. Transferred my backpack contents back into my suitcase and waiting to be picked up. Taxi arrived 09:30 I was waiting from 08:15 and keep getting asked if I wanted a taxi by the same people 😂 then it was what hotel are you staying at. I ended up with a shake of my head each time lol
Arrived at the port and waited in the immense inside heat for about two hours finally we boarded the boat.
There’s quite a few of us I think they’re nearly all Korean. and one French man and one Dutch man who are 2gether and me on my own which is good because that means I’ll get my own room. It is a really nice little cabin. I’m looking forward to sleeping in there tonight so tired I could fall asleep now.
I sorted out my suitcase and the room to my liking and I’m now sitting on the top deck enjoying the sun waiting to start the long itinerary. Wish I could remember it but for the life of me i can’t lol. I will take it as it comes and just enjoy the moments
After sitting around the boat, we had a nice lunch and then got into a small boat and went to
Kelor island to do some hiking and to see some baby sharks.
We started to hike up the steep hilly mountain, about halfway up. I decided this wasn’t for me and came back down. I know when enough is enough and I didn’t need to climb up to prove anything.
After my incident in the bat cave in Cambodia I learned my lesson !

So whilst the others struggled to climb up, I went for a nice swim looking for the baby sharks. I didn’t see any. I saw lots of nice fish and finally got to sit on a beach. I am so tired I could just go to sleep.

Back on small boat back to big boat only to be told we was going snorkelling again. So after a while we got back in the small boat went 1 minute away and snorkelled. Lots of lovely coloured fish to see. Back on boat shower and chill time.
We watched the sunset and the 1000’s of birds fly across the sky such a magical moment
Had dinner and finally I got to go to bed at 8pmRead more