Surabaya is the second largest city in Indonesia. It’s symbol is the shark attacking the croc. Supposedly both died in the attack and the city was built over the two bodies. Even though it is a large city built right in the ocean with millions of people, there is no swimming. It has the most crocs anywhere in the world.
We were greeted at the dock with music and dancing. Actually there has been music in every port in Indonesia. These dancers were a bit unusual so I took some pictures.
So we took a fairly simple excursion to the market. Traffic. Everyone drives a motor bike. In and out of cars and buses. It was crazy.
And then we walked through the outdoor market in the blasting heat and humidity. It was very crowded. The flies were more numerous than the people. It was really great fun even though we couldn’t buy anything.
It also seemed like everywhere we went there were beautiful flowers. I took photos of orchids just growing on the side of trees. This thing whatever it was. And there were many bushes with yellow flowers. Again I have no idea what they were.
We got back to the ship at 4:30. The rain came down in buckets at 5. Lucky for us.
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