That's excellent news. When we passed through Flores in 2007 we were told the ferry to Makassar only went once/month. Please keep us updated.

Good luck.

Hi Tim,

When you get to Bira it is worth staying there for a few days, we stayed at Salassa Guest House Eriq and his wife both speak English, the place is basic but cheap but we as made to feel very welcome.

Ann

So here we go:

Ferry from Bira:

leaves Sundays at midnight. They allow you to board after around 9pm. Not before that. Tickets are bought right in front of the boat, no advance ticket possible. Boat takes around 29 hours.

I paid 280.000 Rp. for me+bike. Officially no rooms are available, but you can get one from the crew, though they ask for 300.000 for that. The boats stopped 2 times on the way, one time in southern Selayar Island one more time on Jampea Island. Boat arrives at 4.30 am in Labuanbajo. The boat is rather small, so if you got a weak stomach you'll have a not-so-great trip...

I paid for a small bike, a big one is 50.000 more. They didn't give me any contact data, but if you call up the guesthouses in either Bira or Labuanbajo, they all know the schedule.

I think we should put Larantukan - Kupang into the first post as well, just to make it easier and so no one else, yes I did, has to wait 4 days in Larantukan cause they manage to show up right after one of the boats.

So here:

From: Flores (Larantuka)
To: West Timor (Kupang)
Frequency: officially 2 times per week, Monday and Friday (12:00 noon)
Duration: officially 15 hours, mine was 30 minutes faster (something must be wrong :P)
Cost: 172000 IRP (Charged for medium bike, Big Bike: 200.000)
Date I Traveled: 25-03-2011


Show up early in the morning to buy the ticket (both opens at 8:00) and be ready to load at 9, the latest, better earlier Boat "opens" for loading around 8:15. Cause after 9:00 the people start loading and overloading everything with all kinds of stuff. Bananas where THE thing this time. If you come after you have no chance to get close to the wall to secure your bike, and on my trip 4 scooters crashed, one on a person sleeping. good luck

I agree that this needs a table and so I have spent a little time creating a Google spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...ZzWkE&hl=en_GB

I have entered the first 6. Does anyone want to do the rest? The form is here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/view...bG9iYjZzWkE6MQ

Ferry to Australia
 

Hi Everyone,

I'm planning a trip from Europe trough Asia to Australia. Has someone got any info if it's possible to get into Australia from Timor, or some of the indonesian islands with ferry or boat ?

regards

Ákosh

Hi Akosh,

:welcome: to HUBB!

The info you seek is already in these pages. On your left look for the box entitled 'Forums'. Click 'Search HUBB' and enter something like 'Dili Shipping', without the quotes, of course.

You will find the info for the boat that goes about once a week.

Ship from Sumbawa or Flores to Sulawesi
 

Hi All

We are currently in Sumbawa and wanted to know if there were car ferry's to Sulawesi from either Sumbawa or Flores ?

Many thanks

Martin

For Sumbawa you are in a better position to find this out for yourself: roll up in the port and ask around.

For Flores the answer is 3 posts up... :rolleyes2:

From: Flores (Labuanbajo)
To: Sulawesi (Bira)
Frequency: Once a week, Thursdays
Duration: Been told 24hours, leaves at 2pm, boards 12 noon, Tickets available from 9am.
Cost: 1,800,00 IRP (4x4)
Date I Traveled: 14/07/2011

Thanks Mart,

I have entered your info into the database.

So, is there a a ferry from Sulawesi or not?

Ferry Sulawesi
 

:mchappy:Hi fellas I know there is from Makassar to Surabaya I did it return and the karaoke is loud and early 7.00am start. Another from Pagimana to Gorontalo that I tried an overnighter. I slept with one eye open but just a little paranoid I think ... people would not stop touching the bike.
Rick an Femmy

Rick and Femmy,

Could you please put details about these two connections into the database? Thanks.

You are great guys! Thx for that great Thread, a month ago when the idea came to our mind to cross from BKK to AU by land I thought we are the only ones :oops2: yep, there are a bunch of crazy folks arround, and everyone seems to be on a bike going arround that very same planet at the very same time at the same route. :thumbup1:

keep riding, keep sharing, stay safe!

see you arroud, we start in 79 days! :scooter: (why there is only a scooter as a smilie? yes there are people who did the RTW by scooter, but not many I guess)


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RTWbyBIKE

We thought our Indonesian Adventure was coming to an end…. having travelled 1000's of miles, been on enough ferries for a life time, through Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Sumbawa, and Sulawesi.

We went to board the 27h ferry from Bira, Sulawesi to Flores, the second to last Island before leaving for Australia, to find the service had been cancelled for the next month, we the last last ferry leaving just a few days before. We had two choices, 1) wait in Sulawesi for one month 2) take another ferry all the way back to Java, and repeat our entire trip throughout Indonesia!

We decided to get the 36h ferry to Java on Monday and do it all again!

Some updated ferry info below:

From: Gorontalo
To: Wakai
Frequency: Twice a week, Tuesday and Friday evenings 8pm,
Duration: 13hours,
Cost: 964,000IRP (4x4)
Date I Travelled: 02/08/2011

From: Wakai
To: Ampana
Frequency: Twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday mornings 9am,
Duration: 6hours,
Cost: 400,000 IRP (4x4)
Dates I Travelled: 06/08/2011

Timing for the opposite direction:
Ampana – Wakai: Sunday & Thursday 10 am
Wakai to Gorontalo: Sunday & Thursday 5pm


From: Sulawesi (Makassar)
To: Java (Surabaya)
Frequency: Monday & Friday
Duration: 36hours, Monday boards 6am leaves at 8am, Friday boards 5leaves at 7am,
Cost: 2,675,000 IRP (4x4)
Date I Travelled: 15/08/2011