After our brief run through Kelimutu we were back to the beach and found ourselves in Maumere this time.
Maumere is a small fishing town and it is still developing itself as tourism seems to be seeping in. Aina and I probably added to the 20 or so total tourists in town it would seem. Maurmereans ( sounds odd, but don't know what they call themselves ) are also bewildered by our appearance in their small beautiful area. It felt similar to West Timor with the people, but the fauna was much richer and more like a jungle than the dryness of West Timor.
The bar area where we stayed was really nice and the best place for wifi. We did a lot of business from there or reading news / looking at Instagram. By the way Aina has an instagram account check it out!
Local children walking home from school and having some fun with us silly bules.
Maumere is a small fishing town and it is still developing itself as tourism seems to be seeping in. Aina and I probably added to the 20 or so total tourists in town it would seem. Maurmereans ( sounds odd, but don't know what they call themselves ) are also bewildered by our appearance in their small beautiful area. It felt similar to West Timor with the people, but the fauna was much richer and more like a jungle than the dryness of West Timor.
This would be our relaxing and snorkeling destination for next few days.
Our first day was focused on getting ourselves supplies and clean laundry. We learned quickly that bules (tourists) weren't passing through there often as the pharmacy only had one small bottle of suncream with a tagline of "skin whitener". We asked for other bottles, even though they were expensive, but they wouldn't have any until another few days. So we purchased some flesh tone colored face cream with spf also and headed out to see the fish market that would be closed. While walking to find a restaurant that we wouldn't eat at we found a small little shop run by a Chinese lady and they had skin creams with 20 spf. In business we were. We bought three bottles of the ctram, shampoo and conditioner, toothpaste, and a large water for about 3 euros. These were the prices we knew existed in places, but not in any tourist town. I think we were a bit shocked at the price as usually we would have gotten the bule mark up, but the kind lady just seemed happy we were there to buy from her.
We spoiled ourselves a bit here and enjoyed a break from the fast paced week we had completed going Jogyakarta > Surabaya > Soe > Labuan Bajo > Moni > Maurmere.
We ate good seafood and ate more of the local cuisine too.
Gado-gado
Beef rendang
The bar area where we stayed was really nice and the best place for wifi. We did a lot of business from there or reading news / looking at Instagram. By the way Aina has an instagram account check it out!
Local children walking home from school and having some fun with us silly bules.
From Maurmere we would head to Bali and a visit to rural family home.
Until the next time :).
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