We manage to get tickets for the ship that was sailing over to Sulawesi which only comes once a month so was lucky to get it. Also we got allocated a cabin number so thought great we will have somewhere to sleep.

So on the day the ship was about 2 hours late but eventually arrived, it was huge the size of a cruise liner.

The port was packed with people it was utter chaos. There were people waiting for family member's, at the same time porters taking off stock and people around collecting that and then passengers getting off the ship, there was no room to move.

Getting on was just another story people pushing to get on, shoes, bags, packaging's falling off the stairs and landing on peoples head below, children getting crushed, it was awful.

I ended up getting the attention of an official guy and got him to push two small children on. Then he let me on, but getting on was just horrendous, people pushing from behind and getting pulled at the same time, with a rucksack not good and then the stairs were curved so no wonder people were losing things.

Then once on released that it was first come first basis for beds, however the state was awful felt like being an immigrant that was being transported and no room to walk with people everywhere.

So found a place to sit and sat there for 20 hours and didn't help that I had a swollen ankle that seemed to get worse, need to remember not to walk into a bed…:D
So 20 hours on a night ship, packed in like sardines nowhere to sleep, was horrendous! Never again.
But was an experience I suppose.