LAST DAY IN BORNEO

So, our last day in Borneo has finally arrived. Our routine pretty much stayed the same as it has been over the last few days. There was however, one thing I definitely wanted to do and that was find a t-shirt for my daughter and myself. Had luck for my daughter, but the pickings were slim for a size large...their large is like our medium (or smaller). Tom wanted to take a last walk around the town. In particular to listen to the sounds coming from the Swallow houses. He said he was mesmerized by them and he felt like he was in a trance (he did get lost once 'cause all the buildings look the same)

After dinner, (at our favourite restaurant) we got ready for the next day as our flight was to leave at 10:00 a.m. Good! There was time for breakfast. I had booked the flight many months before we left Toronto. It was difficult to book this flight because most airlines in Indonesia do not take our credit cards (they have their own). The exception for this was Air Asia. Through my research, I learned that I could use a company called Nusa Trips to book our flight, and they would take Visa, which is exactly what I did. I remember trying to create an account for their websitefrom home, but was unable to do so because as I recall the form did not take my whole name and my birthdate (leap year) was a problem. I assumed I could do this from Indonesia, but didn't have any luck while there either. But since the company had my email address and it mentioned on their website that if there were any changes they would contact me by email.

We had decided to not go in one day to Vietnam but to do a 2 day layover in Jakarta (but not right in Jakarta). We had no desire to stay in Jakarta or go into town. We just wanted to chill. We were going to spend 2 nights at the Ibis Airport Jakarta and then after that we would be using Air Asia to fly from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur and then onto Da Nang Vietnam.

Good-bye Borneo! I have learned so much. I hope my children and their children will live to see the Orang-utans will no longer be a critically endangered species.