Indonesia Travel Blogs

Swapping Laos for Indonesia was a master-stroke; Bali is sensational. The beach at Sanur isn't a patch on the Perhentians but the streets and their architecture are a joy to be around. The Balinese people are highly spiritual, going beyond conventional ...

A travel blog entry from Sanur by stephen.j.booth
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The gift of sickness. I think sickness hits us all. Everyone that has gone over seas ends up sick some way or another. I have in every way embraced this malady. The gifts sickness gave me....projectile vomiting and diarrhea simultaneously, mind you! Oh ...

A travel blog entry from Banda Aceh by thewyndilady
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Hey guyz, guess what? I learned to drive today in a foreign land. Everything is on the opposite side. Everything is opposite from what I've learned. I now sit where my passenger once sat. The gear shifter is now on my left side, I now drive on the ...

A travel blog entry from Banda Aceh by thewyndilady
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Winter, Rini, Nurel, Winter, Elijah, Rance, Richo, Judi, Derrick, Randy, myself and a few other Acehnese guys all went to the Peter Pan concert. Peter Pan is a very popular band here in Southeast Asia and I'm huge fan as well. Yes, I know, Wyndi a huge ...

A travel blog entry from Banda Aceh by thewyndilady
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Hey All! I'm home.. joy is bursting from every fiber of my being. I pray it overflows. I'm EXACTLY where I'm supposed to be at the very moment I'm supposed to be here. What an incredible feeling... My job here will be running the guesthouse/ ...

A travel blog entry from Banda Aceh by thewyndilady
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I hadn't played golf since Derek and I played in Koh Samui a year ago. That course was gorgeous, but I think 115 or something abysmal. This time, we played 3 rounds on two different courses, and the final round was the best of my life. The view was ...

A travel blog entry from Bintan by dane
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The route to the Gili islands is long and dangerous. We've read stories on the net of people traveling through the port of Bangsal and being harassed, soaked in seawater, pinched, punched and spat on, probably because of the downturn in Lombok tourism due ...

A travel blog entry from Gili Trawangan by stephen.j.booth
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Travel always has inherent challenges. Often these come in form of language or infrastructure, but Singapore showed me that even in a modern, English-speaking country, things don't always come smoothly. In fact, it's probably because Singapore seems so ...

A travel blog entry from Tanjungpinang by dane
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It's hard to describe how nice Ubud is without sounding smug, but it really is that nice. I guess it's because here you find a spectacular fusion of tradition and modernity in a friendly (and cheap) atmosphere. I can't believe how nice it is to sleep ...

A travel blog entry from Ubud by stephen.j.booth
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... to do any kind of proper research in Singapore, added to the fact that it was very much a last-minute decision, we entered Indonesia with little clue about where we were going or what to expect. Sometimes this has worked for us - Chennai was a last-minute ...

A travel blog entry from Jakarta by tomandcharlie
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WARNING: The following blog is medical and, in some parts, pretty disgusting and/or factual (i.e. boring!). Please do not read if you are sitting down for your morning cornflakes - kill a few minutes on Facebook and come back later. Believe me, when you ...

A travel blog entry from Legian by tomandcharlie
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... Law. Went to swimming class with Peter, Luke and Winter...was asked to help coordinate Aceh Water Sports by the National Surfing Champion of Indonesia. He wants to teach me to surf and windsurf. He thinks I could be the next big thing! I thought that was ...

A travel blog entry from Banda Aceh by thewyndilady
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From Ubud Sarah and I decided to head up to Lovina on the north coast of Bali. It is a somewhat touristy area with nice black sand beaches. We stayed there for three nights at a nice place called the "Astina Cottages" which was near the beach. It had a ...

A travel blog entry from Padangbai, Bali by philthy
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... a week in Kuta recuperating was a real setback. Still, we managed to have a fantastic time staying in the party capital of Indonesia although I didn't always feel up to the full-on party. We also hired a scooter which meant that I managed to get a ...

A travel blog entry from Kuta, Bali by laurenandkris
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Happy Birthday to my Mum back in England. Lots of love from Tom, Charlie, Percy and my afternoon Kindergarten 2 class xxx

A travel blog entry from Medan by tomandcharlie
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... of Bali as the mass of Gunung Rinjani (3700m) on Lombok loomed ever closer. We were forever beseiged with Indonesia's favorite question, "Hello, where are you going?". Unfortunately most Indonesians don't speak much more English than this and our Bahasa ...

A travel blog entry from Gili Meno, Lombok by laurenandkris
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C... Hello, I am back into the land of the living after joining the Dengue Fever club. They call it break bone fever too, which is not very surprising. The past few weeks have been a bit of a blur, the Bali pace can be quite tough at first especially ...

A travel blog entry from Lovina, Bali by ad_n_caz
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We had been told great things about Lake Toba the last time we were in Sumatra, so this time around we put it on the 'must-do' list. Our first impressions of the Lake was that this was a peaceful atmospheric place where relaxation was hard to avoid. ...

A travel blog entry from Tuk Tuk, Lake Toba by tomandcharlie
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So, now in Kuta. Talk about Magaluf or Costa del sol!!! This is one place that has been ruined by tourism! My flight from Singapore was delayed. We boarded the plane on time, at which point, whilst settling in and checking out the inflight movies, ...

A travel blog entry from Kuta by jeffs
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Our last travelogue was written toward the end of our journey back in Thailand, six months after leaving home and less than ten days after L's family had left us at the airport in Langkawi. She's back to missing them like crazy and we're back to our ...

A travel blog entry from Kuta, Bali by wanderers
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After securing a 4 dive 3 day scuba course whilst still in Kuta, i packed up my bags and left my new group of mates there whilst i went off to tackle and tame Bali's waters. The group i'd met were, although a good bunch of people, quite boring and happy ...

A travel blog entry from Turamben by jeffs
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I arrived in Bali absolutely stuffed- it had been 19 hours on the bus from Yogya. I didn't get any sleep though. The reason I had been racing to Bali was Bek, who had come up for a holiday with her best friends Beck and Lou. My four days were a haze and I ...

A travel blog entry from Bali by zee
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... Apa Kabar touris?, Mau ke mana?" (How are you, tourist? Where are you going?) two questions that you will be asked throughout Indonesia, although usually in English and it just doesn't sound nice that way! Not all were as glad to see us though, one little ...

A travel blog entry from Rote, West Timor by laurenandkris
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We caught the hotel taxi (more expensive than it should have been it turns out!) to Ubud in the centre of the island of Bali. The journey was, once again, a heady mixture of dodging mopeds, cars and wild dogs whilst driving about 1 foot away from the ...

A travel blog entry from Ubud by gonetilwhenever
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... -night with her 'siren' songs) and headed out on the Pelni ship to Bali. Pelni is the government run shipping company of Indonesia and serves a wide variety of customers. For us this would be the first, and most probably last, time we could afford to ...

A travel blog entry from Kadidiri, Togean islands, Sulawesi by laurenandkris
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LOCATION SUMMARY - Indonesia Location: Bali, Indonesia Duration: 13 days Sights 6 People 8 Food 7 Accommodation 7 Ease of Travel / Communication 5 Value for money 9 Weather 8 Safety 8 Adrenaline factor 2 ...

A travel blog entry from Location Summary by gonetilwhenever
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Our next flight we depart the plane outside, which is always the first indication we are in another land. As I step off the plane I am overwhelmed by all the familiar aromas of this place....cigarettes, incencse and body odor. Awwwwhhhh...I love this ...

A travel blog entry from Medan by thewyndilady
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... pass on the offer for our possibly last chance of such luxury for a very long time. A... On the April 5th Indonesia will be holding their first ever free presidential elections, and campaigning is pretty well under way here. It's pretty hard ...

A travel blog entry from Yogyakarta, Java by ad_n_caz
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Bali continues to amaze...We left Ubud, the "artist capital" of Bali in favor of Lovina, famous for black sand beaches and dolphin watching. It was a needed relief from the constant hot of Ubud, and the breeze from the water reached our bungalow's porch ...

A travel blog entry from Padangbai by sarah
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21st September - Set Sail at last! All through the night the cranes were loading containers into the boat. In the morning I got a good video of one going right past my window! At 1pm I sensed we were moving and we had finally set sail. Initially ...

A travel blog entry from Somewhere in the Sea by poolman99
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