Mantas?

The boat trip ended in Labuan Bajo, Flores. A small harbor city that lives on tourism and has more Italian restaurants than an average Italian village. Tourists come here for two things; komodo dragons and manta rays. The last ones being the reason why there is one business that tops the amount of Italian restaurants; diving. With so many dive shops it's difficult to choose. Going for the one closest to the hotel seemed to be easiest.

Running into our American and Canadian friends we made on our boat trip made them decide to join us for another day on a boat together. The diving day we had great fun together but the diving was the worst we ever had. Although the shop looked nice and organized the boat was the opposite. But a crappy boat was not going to give us a bad experience. Our dive guide did! It was an angry man without the necessary experience for diving in those waters. Which resulted in chaotic and for some moments even a bit unsafe dives. Besides that, diving at Komodo national park was amazing.

The next day we changed to another dive company and had a great time. The dive sites were superb and challenging. The main attraction for this day was manta point. The chance to see manta rays there is about 90%, unfortunately we were part of the other 10%. Unpredictable nature. But we have something to console us with, we saw some of the creators on the surface, which was already really amazing. And don’t forget the sharks and dolphins...

The day we left we took two motorbike taxis to bring us to the airport. Which we found out is just at the end of the street. The airport of Labuan Bajo is like a bus station or actually more like a bus stop. It's so small it's just funny. The plane we had to catch landed in front of us and opened the doors. We could hop on to discover it was already half full. It turned out to be coming from another part of Flores and only came for a few extra passengers to fly together to Bali.