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A Week in Manado - Part 4

The 4th day is a big day for us, Manado finally gave us her sunshine and it's beach time! This day, we went to Lihaga Island. The trip starts via land from Manado to Port Serai via Likupang. Beware, it was not really marked properly on Google Maps so you have to make sure that you are going the right direction. The drive was about 90 minutes long.

I just had to take a picture of this :)
Along the road near Likupang, they had rows and rows of cloves drying on the street and garden. You can even smell it from inside the car.

Cloves drying
When we arrived at the port, guess what the locals have for pets...!!


Piglets

More piglet
From the port, we took a chartered boat for about 20 minutes. It was short and relatively calm, nothing like the waves we faced in December going to and from Derawan Islands. And this time, I got smarter and I brought a Personal Floating Device (PFD) for Miss Kiki and I. I knew the boat wouldn't have ones our size.





Lihaga Island had the most amazing sand I've ever seen. It was literally white, and clean, with super fine grains. The water was blue and green and clear. When we snorkelled around, we felt some really warm water, and some regular cool water on different spots about a meter apart. It was really strange.

My mom really did jump, but I had bad timing. Oops!

My aunt and uncle brought manado yellow rice for everyone.


The rice was wrapped in palm leaves



















See how clear the water is






We also tried to visit Gangga Island Resort about 5 minutes boat ride from Lihaga, but the security said that we had to make reservations to enter. As you can see here, the beach was not as nice nor as clean as Lihaga. So we went back.




Gangga Island

Gangga Island

Gangga Island
And... we were back at Lihaga Island.


















We arrived back in Manado late afternoon, and went to Kios Es Tjie Mei. They are famous for their ice drinks, like the Manadonese Red Bean Ice (Es Kacang).



This place is situated just a few metres down from Rumah Kopi Tikala. So of course, DH and my mom went over for some coffee...


That evening for dinner we went to RM Rajawali for their famous Ikan Mas Bakar Rica. It was spicy and oh so good!! Sorry, we forgot to take pictures we were so hungry!

Coming up next: another day in Manado


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