Finally I’m feeling better and have a day off to cruise around the island by myself with the scooter that I’ve rented. I really needed a peaceful day just by myself. I woke up early this morning and went off to the local market downtown. On my way I stopped by Black Rock. It’s a nice look out place over the ocean, with a lot of as the name says it already black rocks. I grabbed my tripod and took some pictures at this wonderful place.
There are a lot of street dogs at the island but they are all very kind and friendly.
During my photoshoot one of them joined me and kept me some company.
I headed further to downtown to be on time for the market. It was pretty busy when I arrived. There were a lot of little shops with food, flowers, music and clothes. I went straight ahead to the… yeah you will properly guess it right.. to the toilet. After that I quickly went to the stage cause at 10.30 am they have live music and traditional dancing! Well I didn’t want to miss that! It was amazing! The beats were so fast and the hips of those girls moved even faster! It was really impressive!
My belly told me it was time for lunch! So I took my scooter and drove a bit looking for a nice place to have some food.
There it was!! A nice little restaurant on the side of the road that looks out over the ocean! I stopped and looked at the menu card. HHMM Thai chicken, that sound great! I ordered it and the funny part was when they served it.. I found out it was a Thai chicken PIZZA haha! It was the best surprise of the day and very delicious and tasty!
Okay its time to continue the trip.. Helmet check, sunglasses check, scooter check! Let’s gooo……
Did I already told you they drive here on the left side of the road?? I have never done that before so that’s already an big adventure haha! Lucky for me they basically have just one main road, no traffic lights or whatever. So its pretty easy and a good island to learn driving on the left side.
I really wanted to explore more of the green mountains here! I just took one of the side roads hoping to get closer! And YES! I got the right road straight away! I came close to such an amazing jungle view! And then I saw the buggy tour passing by! Oh YEAH I just gonna follow their route! It was so cool to drive on the off-road ways through dirty and mud straight through the jungle! Hoping that the scooter will survive it with all the rocks haha. YEAH the scooter and I are still alive and are having such a great time. I was a bit over excited, and lost the way back to the main road. I crossed the buggy tour again and the tour guide helped me to get back on the right track. Woehoeee this was so amazing!
After that I drove by the Wave church. They were running a kids camp. When I arrived, the big kids went off to kill two pigs for the big church party the next day. So I hung out with the younger kids and made some nice flower bouquets, had some lovely talks on the picnic blanket, and laughed with each other.
I continued to cruise around the island and stopped on each wonderful spot to take some nice photos. I arrived back at the YWAM base around 5 pm. Took a nice shower, grabbed some food and watched a movie at Pam’s house. It was a good and peaceful day!
Thank you Jesus for your promises!
