Jakarta
Travel Blogs from Jakarta, Indonesia
Jungle Highs, AC lows thats the way Indonesia goes
... time 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 ...
Days 49-50: Singapore to Yogya
... me on an hour journey to the nearby Indonesian industrial island of Pulau Batam. From here, I'd take a budget AirAsia flight to Jakarta (Indonesia's capital.) Flying within Indonesia was much cheaper than flying to Jakarta directly from Singapore, FYI. On ...
Dirty Ol' Jakarta
... 's no point 2) Don't trust anyone except yourself- turned out I could've gotten a visa on arrival after all. The difference between Indonesia and Malaysia is striking. The first thing that hits you is the crush. There're a lot of people in Indo, and they ...
Kelimutu (Ende to Moni to Bajawa)
... comfortable, with worn out seats and every available space filled with peoples stuff. The ears take a bashing with continuous overloud Indonesia-vision song contest like music blaring out of the stereo. We had a verygood driver and the only dangerous ...
Last day in Jakarta, Heading off to Bali tomorrow
... lag, but not quite. I'm still getting up at 6am and trying to stay awake past 8:30pm, I'm doing a little better every day. Indonesia is exactly 12 hours ahead of Boston/New York. So it's 11:15 AM on Sat the 16th here, and it's 11:15 PM ...
Jakarta Part 2
... violence for 30 years. Further unrest, the 2002 Bali bombing and last years bombing of the Marriot Hotel, mean Indonesia and Jakarta in partcular, have been tainted as terrorism hotspots, leaving the tourist industry shattered. Being aware of all this ...
Swamp City????
... , however due to news reports about flooding I decided to spend more time in Yogya. An over night bus ride and we arrived in Jakarta with no problems, In fact i was so early to the airport I decided to take an earlier flight to Batam. Sometimes dont ...
Jakarta
... and pens 20,100, laundry 20,000, accom 110,000 Insurance claim: Camera 3,900,000 case 90,000 128MB card 331,500 rechargeable batteries 172,000 leatherman 880,000 mag-lite 170,000 rucksack 219,000 lonely planet Indonesia (bible) ...
My every need attended to
... eats with me. This may have something to do with my mangling of their language in my attempt to learn a bit of Bahasa Indonesia. However, Sasha the German shepard is my constant companion. Its awesome to have a big dog like her around to play with. ...
Jakarta - Day 187
A big 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the north-west coast of Java while I was on the train to Jakarta this morning. Apparently a Tsunami warning was issued but later recalled. I was completely oblivious until I received at a text message from my ...
Umm....now where?
Hello world citizens, I'm back in Jakarta for a month to do some research for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies www.csis.or.id I have realized that after August 13th, when Scott goes back to Taiwan after our travels in Thailand and ...
Javanese Madness
After a 7hour flight from Sydney we arrived at the airport in jakarta, Indonesia's capital city. At the airport were huge signs saying "Welcome to Indonesia, death penalty for drug smugglers" and immigration officers who stamped us in for 60 days, no ...
Arrived in the Indonesian Archipelagio
Arrived safe & sound in Jakarta, Indonesia.. Though I can't say the flight from Taipei to Jakarta was as pleasant as the last one into Taipei. It was a madhouse getting on the plane, shoving and pushing, and it only got worse once we were ...
Ex-pat life in the Big City
... in Jakarta, not counting my time in Ujong Kulon. I did quite a bit and these are some of the highlights: Museum of Indonesia: very large collection. Closes very early (1330 sometimes) so be there in the morning. National Monument (Monas): It was ...
The Big Durian
... past. Anyway, a protest can't get away if the square is fenced in, and they seem to have issues with protests in Indonesia. Finally we found the bus to the airport and were soon on our way back to Thailand. Before we left, though, ...
Danau Toba
... doesn't revolve around where we've been, where we're going and what we do for a living. Football hooliganism in Indonesia makes English seem like a tapestry convention. Matches in recent years between Java and Sumatra have resulted in so many ...
Berastagi - Danau Toba
Day 114 - Berastagi - Danau Toba Having spent the night dressed in every item of clothing I had on my person (woolly hat included) near the summit of an active volcano, being buffeted by gale force winds, today promised to be odd. As feared, the ...
Big city, bright lights - Jakarta
... picked up at my wonderful Merdeka home stay and dropped off at the beautifully new Padang airport. In less than 2 hours, I arrived in Jakarta where my servas host Tiur was waiting for me. Tiur lives an hour away from Jakarta in Cicupa Raya. I am ...
Getting lost and penniless in Jakarta
... of plans to build monorails and/or an underground system (they have neither), since the Asia financial crisis which hit Indonesia badly (9 yrs ago I think, or thereabouts). The real people I spoke to in Jakarta maintain that the government have put their ...
Bali
Day 119 - 120 - Sanur The original plan was to spend a couple of days here in Sanur, head to Lombok and then return in time for our flight to Australia. After landing ourselves a gorgeous hotel for next to nothing, moving anywhere seems less likely. ...
AW Air to Jakarta!
... just before lunch and jumped on a bus into town and managed to find an OK guesthouse in no time at all! So the exploration of Indonesia's capital began...and our first real experience of SMOG! Big time! We got a real birds eye view of this from the top of ...
Summary of Asia
Summary of Asia Four months spent travelling through eight of Asia's numerous countries and we've stayed in 41 different hotels and I've read 47 books. We've met plenty of people I'd like to call friends (locals and Westerners) and vey few whose ...
Caught the late morning flight to bali it ...
Caught the late morning flight to Bali. It involved a 4 hour transit stop in Singapore, but that was ok. Singapore airport has the ability to keep even the most impatient passengers occupied. For those that want to venture out can book on a free city ...
Well at last i'm able to upload a selection ...
Well at last i'm able to upload a selection of pictures from Bali, although finding a computer that had software that could crop, and reduce the picture resolution without effecting the overall picture quality was 'mission impossible' ...so you'll have ...
Scuba diving companies in the lovina area ...
... run aground. She lies with her bow pointing North and her stern facing South, at 120m long she is supposed to be Indonesia's best wreck dive. Luckily the weather held out with clear skies, although it was fairly windy, which did reduce the underwater ...
Jakarta
... as she swam were in the next day's paper. It should also have been no surprise to me that security would be an issue in Jakarta. Hera had had her car stolen from inside the compound with a locked gate and security guard. Black magic? I’m not ...
Hindu Happy New Year
Mataram was meant to be a shopping trip only, but, well, it turned out far more interesting. The day we arrived, we went straight to the market to do some last souvenir shopping. In the afternoon, a guy from our hotel invited us to celebrate the Hindu ...
Transit - Bali to Jakarta
... was cancelled and we were put on the 6:30am. There are later flights but today marks the end of a week-long holiday season in Indonesia and the afternoon flights were all booked. We arrived in Jakarta at 7am after a two-hour flight (there is a one hour ...
My arrival in to the third world
Here I was about arrive in Timor, on my own with no familiar faces, and only £350 quid and I had a plan to be in Hongkong by Xmas. I had to take the cheapest route i could and this was it! A few other backpackers were standing bewildered in the arrival ...

