Hi everyone,

My partner and I are currently traveling through Indonesia and since we couldn't really find too much info on the ferries between the islands I thought I should put something up, we are only on Bali just now but I will endeavor to update this as we travel along the remainder of our route :-)

From: Sumatra (Bakauheni)
To: Java (Merak)
Frequency: 1 every hour 24 hours a day
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 67000 IRP
Date We Traveled: 24-05-2009

From: Java (Banyuwangi)
To: Bali (Gilimanuk)
Frequency: 1 every half hour 24 hours a day
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: 27000 IRP
Date We Traveled: 31-05-2009

From: Bali (Padang Bai)
To: Lombok (Lembar)
Frequency: We got ours at 12:30 ish and have been told various stories ranging from they only run at 08:30, 12:30 and 16:30 to someone telling us they run every two hours 24 hours a day so good luck!! :-D
Duration: 4 hours (Approx, had some waiting around for a jetty to clear at Lombok)
Cost: 195000 IRP (Charged for big bike)
Date We Traveled: 03-06-2009

From: Lombok (Labuhan Lombok)
To: Sumbawa (Poto Tano)
Frequency: 1 every hour 24 hours a day
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 69000 IRP (Charged for big bike)
Date We Traveled: 05-06-2009

From: Sumbawa (Sape)
To: Flores (Labuhanbajo)
Frequency: 1 a day, at present it is supposed to leave 16:00 on Mondays and then 08:00 Tuesday - Sunday.
Duration: Supposed to be 8 hours but ours left forty minutes late and took 9 hours
Cost: 206000 IRP (Charged for big bike)
Date We Traveled: 10-06-2009

From: Flores (Ende)
To: West Timor (Kupang)
Frequency: Random at best, when we turned up on Flores we asked a few folk and got told different stories each time, the best thing to do is to go to the town you aim to leave from (Aimere, Ende or Larantuka) and ask at the port there and even then make sure you check regularly before the boat leaves (we did it every couple of days) as they are quite often known to change without any prior warning!
Duration: Supposed to be 18 hours ended up being a rather choppy 22
Cost: 215000 IRP (Charged for medium bike)
Date We Traveled: 18-06-2009

P.S. If anyone knows how to put this up in table form can they tell me, would be a lot more useful then I think :-)


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