Today was a more relaxed day, starting with breakfast outside and catching up on our blog posts.

The main activity today was going to see Cirque du Soleil’s KURIOS show. What a spectacular, mesmerizing, and memorable event!

The performance featured amazing feats of strength, precision, skill, story telling and humour. The show captivates you and takes you into a magical, surreal world where the impossible is make possible. One act started with performers sitting at a table and building a tower of chairs at least 8m high and one of the performers then climbing this tower while a second tower was assembled downwards from the ceiling of the tent in an almost mirror-like way.

One of the cutest and most comical acts featured an audience member sitting on a sofa on stage while the “suitor”, tried to impress her while taking on the roles of a bird and cat, communicating solely through gestures, sounds, and movements.

Acrobats performed gravity defying feats that really must be seen to be believed. The precision was astounding! Imagine being launched, flipping backwards and landing on the shoulders of team-mate who himself is standing on the shoulders of two others.

The show, like every other Cirque du Soleil show we’ve experienced, is definitely worth seeing.

After the show we scurried down to the ferry terminal to make it home before the dark skies above opened and released buckets of water. We didn’t quite make it, but were able to take refuge under a tent at the pier. When we arrived at the other side half an hour later, the rain had mostly stopped.

Later in the evening we heard explosions and went out to investigate. There was a massive fireworks display on an island nearby. We had a great view from the shoreline.

No map for today.