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**kotamarudu** · #1 27 Nov 2020

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Badas Port. Twelve km west of Sumbawa Besar city.

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Port workers. These blokes spend all day raking out loose corn from trucks.

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Trucks waiting to unload

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Corn ready for the crane to haul aloft.

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The ship is the “Simfoni Sejati”

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Sinfoni Sejati means “Loyal Symphony”

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My KLX Sejati!

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And again

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And again

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Badas Port exports a lot of corn to Java where a lot of food processing plants are located. Indonesia manufactures a huge amount of snack food.

Don’t know why some photos uploaded upside down. Don’t know how to fix. Sorry.

**Grant Johnson** · #2 27 Nov 2020

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Originally Posted by kotamarudu

Don’t know why some photos uploaded upside down. Don’t know how to fix. Sorry.

Best I can figure when I see this is the phone orientation is somehow "fixed" in the image, so the orientation is messed up. Rotating it in your computer SOMETIMES solves it, other times not, all you can do is try, sorry.

**kotamarudu** · #3 4 Dec 2020

Kupang (population 435K, 2019) is the largest city between Bali and Darwin. As such it is a busy transport hub. Cargo ships and PELNI liners dock at Tenau Harbour whereas ASDP ferries and smaller craft use the port ofBolok about 7km to the west of Tenau.

As you can from the impressive Port Departures and Arrivals Board there are connections to Rote, Sabu (also called Savu), Waingapu on Sumba, Ende, Larantuka and Aimere on Flores, Kalabahi on Alor and Lewoleba on Lembata. Currently there is a volcano, Ile Api or Lewotolo, which is erupting on Lembata. I was able to climb it in 2008. The crater is very spectacular.

From Kalabahi and Lewoleba on Lembata you can also reach Baranusa on Pantar. Pantar has an interesting volcano called Sirung.

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Don't pay too much attention to the schedule. Always ask first as weather, breakdowns and any number of factors can intervene.

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Pantar is seldom visited.

**kotamarudu** · #4 4 Dec 2020

In late 2016 my mate Daryl Roinson and me arrived in Kupang at 3.00am. We'd just completed a 15 hr ferry trip from Kalabahi on Alor. I made some enquires about shipping heading west. My visa was running out so I had to move quickly. I was told the ferry to Sumba via Savu left at 3pm. Good. We found a hotel - Hotel on the Rock - checked in and crashed.

Around 7.30 we had a great breakfast on this deck overlooking the bluest of blue seas - seiously beautiful way to start the day.

Around 9am I decided to head out to the port and buy a ticket. I got there after a leisurely ride that saw me head to Tenau first (wrong port) before finally getting to Bolok. Bought the ticket and the guy says, "Ferry's over there, it leaves at 11."

My God! I was told 3.00pm! Crazy, crazy ride back to the Rock, pack my gear snd another crazy speed-fest. I was the last bike on the ferry which was packed to the gunnels. Every bar of soap, every can of drink, every hairpin sold on Savu comes from Kupang.