Komodo Trip, Indonesia

Two days before Christmas we got on a boat that was going to take us from Lombok on a four-day "sailing trip" with the island of Flores as our final destination. The sailing turned out to be a quite loud engine, the trip turned out to be three nights instead of the promised four, the all inclusive didn't include visiting all the stops along the way and food was only until we reached the destination although we had paid for a little more... However, during these four days we got to see so much beautiful nature, enjoy the sun and ocean from the deck of a boat and had great company. We were 13 people on the boat of different ages and from different parts of the world and we had a lot of fun! We stopped to swim in beautiful waterfalls in the middle of the jungle, visited a salt water lake (which looked suspiciously much like a regular fresh water lake but no...) had rice or noodles, climbed little mountains in the middle of nowhere with views of surrounding islands and bays, stopped at desolate beaches to swim and snorkel in clear, turquoise water with parrotfish, clownfish, rays etc, visited  Komodo and Rinca Islands with it's famous Komodos; giant lizzards who live mainly on waterbuffalos, can get up to 3 meters long or more and only exist in this very part of the world. They were pretty fascinating to see, but as their hunting technique is just to lay around and wait for someone to get close enough to eat, they're not that exciting... The islands were gorgeous though, and we enjoyed it very much. Every scenery was just stunning, stunning, stunning. In the nighttime we played cards on deck, drank beers, had more rice or noodles, pondered at the beautiful sunset and starfilled nightskies and just relaxed. We spotted dolphins several times and one of the nights, they came swimming with our boat but because of the darkness all we could see of them was the shining rays moving under us in the water as they made the plankton fluorescent. Soo beautiful!
For Christmas dinner we had deep fried chicken, vegetables and.... noodles! We had fun though and the imported gingerbreadcookies gave the swedish population of the boat some joy... We arrived in Labuhan Bajo a day early and as that was the end of it we all went out for a dinner togheter before saying goodbye. So, even though if we didn't get much christmas feelings, at least it's one that we enjoyed very much and will remember for a long time!