Darwin, 11 February 2025

Disembarkation day. So we were up at 6am packing the final things before breakfast at 6.30am, as they wanted us out of the cabins as soon as possible. Then we read, and listened to a talk, in the lounge until we shuffled to the buses at 9am. They drove for a while and Sorong is clearly a good sized city.

We were taken to a hotel for the morning. At one point I went off to look for the local shops but I couldn't find anything and it was dirty, loud and hot so I gave up pretty quickly and went back to the shelter of the hotel lobby. So this was going to be one of those transit days, the days you have to write off when traveling as boring but necessary. 

In due course we had a pleasant buffet lunch, then were bussed the short distance to the airport to wait another couple of hours.

Frustratingly, the first leg took us north west to Manado because Sorong isn't an international airport. It was only an hour and a bit, then we had to get off and go through emigration, then wait to get back onto the same plane. 

Fortunately it was an uneventful flight and less than 3 hours to Darwin.