It came so suddenly this year - my first time to go to Indonesia. I didn't prepare as much and took things as they came. Without direct flights from Manila on a Tuesday, I took 2 flights through Malaysia Airlines (MNL-KUL-DPS), with a stop over and window shopping at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport before I arrived in Denpasar's Ngurah Rai International Airport (Bali airport). I like flying on a weekday and doing this for many more years. A normal direct flight from MNL-DPS (Philippine Airlines, soon Cebu Pacific) would take only around 4 hours but local airlines from the Philippines don't have daily schedules to Bali. I am nuts enough to travel from 6:50 a.m. in the morning to arrive at 3:25 p.m. (6 hours and 45 minutes total flight time) just to get to my final destination haha. Of course, the trip was worth it and hopefully, you'll see why below =) We also stayed the night in Bali then headed out for another flight the next day to Labuan Bajo (where the dragons are!) for this trip.
