20190807-D1 : Surabaya- Banyuwangi - LEFT BEHIND?

[Our Hotel:  Ketapang Indah Cottages, Bangyuwangi- a place filled with many coconut trees with a view of Bali]

7/8/19 : The arduous road journey from Surabaya to Bangyuwangi...only 290km but we took more than 7 hours from point to point excluding a lunch stop and rest stops of another hour!

Day1:

7:50am - Flight from T2 Changi Airport - Surabaya (about 2 hours flight time)

• We almost missed our boarding at Gate D42! Why??? Because we checked in from T2 but we had to walk to T1 Jewel for this gate! Took us 20min to walk from Customs clearing point with the help of travellators to Board this plane! (Why did they not warn us about the gate at T1 earlier? Huh!)
• And our friend E, did miss her plane! Not surprising if she had arrived at 7:15! As the airport was first of all crowded due to the long National Day weekend holidays.......having to walk 20 min thereabout to board the plane was the "mission impossible" :( unless one is Superman.

9am (Indonesian time) - 1 hour behind Spore - Arrival at Surabaya.

• Almost left behind again - John's jacket was left on the plane in haste:(  But thank God we managed to retrieve it back from the Lost and Found Counter at the airport.

Late lunch midway after driving more than 4 hours!

On route to this town called Bangyuwangi - facing Bali : We saw

• Padi fields
• Onion fields
• Tobacco fields....
• and we found out later that it is also well known for their apples and small oranges plantations...

Memorable Reflection

When Yoyo, our guide explained that the above scene about the poor gleaning the leftover onions by the owner in that field, my heart lept for joy! Ruth - one of the books in the Bible suddenly came alive for me! This practice of old farming practice and kindness to the poor for gleaning is seemingly a live practice even in our modern today's world.  At least in this town in Indonesia. And reminded me of Boaz - the Kinsman Redeemer.  And this was an honorable ancestral lineage where Jesus came to later.

P/s : Poor E was resourceful and resolute.  Despite missing her SQ flight, she managed to take another Garuda flight to Jakarta, then unto Lion flight to Surabaya.  Cos the SQ flights were full. She managed to arrive at about 6pm at the airport and then finally arrived at Bangyuwangi hotel at 2am.  

But at a cost of course! Additional flight cost $290 plus another road trip $100.

Well.....Better late than never! And not left behind afterall.