Bogor Palace

... at all if it is the bus I want or need to take!!!  No AC. and rickety looking like most regular public buses in Indonesia!!! Again, I have to just hope that I am being directed on the right bus and that I will end up somewhere in Jakarta where I will ...

... like the Rafflesia gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.   Next was the orchid arboretum which was nothing exciting I reckoned - only half it was flowering. The lawns around the palace were filled with hundreds of deer - and I mean, a lot!

Bogor - i. Kebun Raya - U can see the beauty of plants and Indonesian Presidential Palace from there too. ii. Gunung Salak - it is an volcano. But i got no chance to go to the hill top to see lava (6 hours hiking, too late for me to hike because ...

... . Next mistake although it was not my choice, was puting me up with the driver in the front seat. Very bad idea. Driving in Indonesia is like many other places in the world: terrifying, and anyone who has been lucky enough to have me as a passenger, may ...