在科莫多国家公园（Komodo National Park）花了5个月的时间巡游后，曼特拉（Mantra）留给了她位于南苏拉威西（South Sulawesi）比拉（Bira）的家庭港口。又进行了安排的维护和安装新设备的一个月，我们准备再次航行。

The guests landed in Makassar airport on the morning of 24^Th11月，并于当天下午到达比拉。只是准时在比拉海滩（Bira Beach）喝一杯美味的日落饮料，并在咒语上晚餐。

11月25日

Morning, we visited the nearby town of Tanah Beru, where hundreds of wooden boats are built on the beach following few century old tradition. One of the big vessels was launched, and the guests could see how two dozen people, by mean of chain blocks and physical strength, manage to move a 150 ton boat, 40 meter long, 10 meter wide, and 4 meter high ...amazing! Afternoon, we enjoyed snorkeling in the crystal clear waters surrounding Bira, although we could have gone diving, but we opted for a more relaxed snorkeling session.

26^Th十一月

Morning, we sat sail toward Kabaena Island in east Sulawesi, spend the day relaxing and dreaming about our trip. Enjoying breeze and landscape, several times we even saw dolphins jumping in front of Mantra’s bow. Our First sunset at sea was celebrated by one of the best gin tonic I ever had.

27^Th十一月

早晨，我们在卡巴纳（Kabaena）醒来，我们去了一个早晨潜水，然后搬到了附近的一个小环礁，当地村庄的所有孩1zplay子都带着巨大的微笑欢迎我们。我们在那里度过了一段美好的时光，他们很高兴向我们展示他们的村庄，向我们讲述他们的生活，像印度尼西亚的成千上万的岛屿，在距离上如此近，到目前为止，人们过着生活自然而然地与大自然接触，这使我们思考很多...

晚上晚餐后，我们开始前往Tukan Besi群岛（也称为Wakatobi）的旅程。

Wakatobi -史密斯原来的名字的意思是铁main resource of income of the islands in the past. The modern name is an acronim given by the first two letters of the names of the four main islands Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomea, Binongko. For People that love the sea this is simply paradise. The reefs are pristine, thanks also to the effort of a local resort that worked decades together with local communities, to preserve this beauty.

28^Th-30th of November

We spend 3 days hopping from one reef to another, I was personally in the area a few years previously, and I was so happy to see that the environment is still healthy and gorgeous. I was sure that our guests wouldn’t mind to spend one more week snorkeling and diving in this area. But, as we had a long journey to undertake, following the spice trade route, we were heading toward Maluku islands, Bandaneira...Ambon...All names that remind us a not so long ago of a struggle for the control of the spice trade, a time where the world powers, did not fight yet each other for oil, but for nutmegs!

1^st-2^ndof December

We sailed straight across the Banda Sea toward Ambon, two days and two nights of absolute flat sea, unreal… like a lake. We stopped on the way, to have a quick dip in the deep blue water, no land in sight, depth below us of four thousand meters, no wind, no current at all and we manage to play with an inflatable mattress ...just...Incredible.

很长一段时间后，没有发现任何土地，我们可以在雷达屏幕上看到布鲁群岛的海岸，确认我们正在步入正轨。

3^rdof December

早晨：借助第一个灯光，我们可以在目的地看到目的地，我们在马卢库（Maluku）。我们只是想买一些新鲜的蔬菜，我们只是快速停下来，并有一位来宾加入我们去班达之旅。到中午，我们再次航行，这次旅行将把我们直接带到班达（Banda）的Run Island村前。

4^Th– 6th of December

Run Island - This small volcanic islands in the middle of the deep Banda sea, where for centuries the main world producers of nut meg and clove, the Portuguese, the Duch, and the English armadas sailed the long way from Europe to get this precious spices. Not to mention Chines, Arabs and Indian traders, that ventured there centuries before the Europeans. Today the island economy still relay on the spice trade, but tourism income is slowly taking over. You can still find the original forts build at the time. On the streets there are still some old bronze cannon, everything looks like the time has stopped. The diving is world class, mainly walls that drop hundreds meters straight down. We spent a few days in this area, and even we hit some rain, our experience will be in our minds forever.

Time doesn’t stop just because we were having fun; it was the time to sail back to Ambon.

7^Thof December

Weather was improving, so we started our final leg of the trip, knowing that the flat sea we had before was think of the past.

一路上我们有一些粗大的大海。我们的标题完全违反了风和电流，我们正在猛击。我们越接近我们的最终目的地，我们就会越多。当我们进入安伯庇护所的庇护湾时，我们可以理解过去的水手的感觉 - 经过数月的旅程，只依靠帆，指南针和星星...

在我们的旅行总共持续了两个星期中，我们中没有人会忘记的经历。

8^Thof December

我们在几个小时的时间里乘坐麦卡萨尔（Makassar）乘坐狮子飞往巴厘岛的狮子航班，回到我们的生活，准备考虑我们的下一次咒语旅行……她去了Sorong，她将在接下来的赛季中航行we can’t wait to be on board again.

I would like to thank all the crew of Mantra, for their wonderful job and their constant effort to make all guests feel at home, see you soon Mantra.