Sumbawa

December 14, 2022
Meet new friends and tell each other about our journey & Good Friends activities in Sumba.
After spending the night at Anak Alam Learning House’s homebase, we continued our journey to the East in the morning.

Our target today is to arrive at Sape Port to catch the ferry crossing to Labuan Bajo. Asphalt roads on the island of Sumbawa are very long, as you can see on the map, the distance between ports that we have to travel is 387 km.

Enjoying the trip on the island of Sumbawa we stopped several times to rest, to snack on local fruits on the side of the road. Meeting new friends and telling each other about our journey and activities on Sumba.

New friends, Comrades Reno and Fiar who both work at the Public Works and Spatial Planning Office of West Nusa Tenggara.

Both of them are active in social activities with the community in Sumbawa Besar. They really like their current job because they are close to the community and like to share positive things through their work.

After passing through Sumbawa Besar we entered Bima district. At around 8 pm we arrived at kec. Dompu and spend the night at the inn and continue Bima’s journey to Sape harbor for 4 hours of travel the next day.

We stopped by to meet a friend who was at the port of Sape, Mr. Citra. For the past 2 years, he has often helped us provide information regarding the crossing schedule from Sape to Waingapu if we travel overland by car. But this time the destination to Waingapu is not operating.

The schedule for crossing Sape to Bajo is every day at 10 pm. While waiting for the ship to dock we said goodbye to visit other friends in Sape.

Mrs. Erna and Mr. Surya, they invited us to rest at their homebase at Villa Lariti to bathe, eat and relax for a moment on the hill of Sape harbor.

Mr. Surya is a retired PUPR employee in the NTB province. In the field of drilling and detecting springs, he is an expert. We talked about our activities in East Sumba and the problem of access to clean water there. He gave several suggestions for collaboration between provinces in Eastern Indonesia. Hearing what happened in Sumba, he was moved to want to be involved in activities with us.

Other friends who were also visiting there at the time, some who work as dentists and entrepreneurs were also enthusiastic to offer the help we needed. Until it arrived at 7 pm we also had to return to the port to queue to enter the ferry.

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