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Kupang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kupang, Indonesia
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Mr Thomas and friends
This is a top pick! ... "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 ...
Booming bemos and Bintangs on board
This is a top pick! ... of Wednesday, which was probably fortunate as we were all enormously tired from the all-nighter logged to navigate through the Kupang Strait. Got to dodge those unlit fishing boats and lobster pots. Town officials were conscious that we weren't spending ...
JONNY!!
Back to Kupang and very excited!! Day one and day two...waiting for the time to pass! Day three: Put up birthday decorations in the room. At 9pm Jonny arrived ^^ Day four: Happy Birthday Jonny! It took me ages, but I managed to organize a trip to Monkey ...
Großes Treffen aller Volontäre in Kupang
[Montag 23.02. 19:15 - Welcome to Kupang] Versuch gerade verzweifelt seit 5 Minuten mir meine rechte Kontaktlinse aus dem Auge zu pulen - ohne Erfolg. Das Auge ist rot und tut weh und irgendwie ist das voll Scheiße. Also hab ich beschlossen kurz Pause ...
Kupang - Indonesia
... to another bus which took us back to Kupang where another argument ensued with Don. This we all thought was the start of Indonesia, so we didn't have a pleasant experience dealing with this character. We reported him to the staff of Ted's Bar as Don ...
Komodo Dragon
... dragon is an endangered species (appx. there are 6000) and is found on the IUCN Red List. Komodo National Park in Indonesia includes three larger islands Komodo, Rinca and Padar. The islands are of volcanic origin. Within its area there are living ...
Clandestino
... . Io non posso fare niente, ma quando arrivi al confine probabilmente ti chiederanno venti dollari per ogni giorno trascorso illegalmente in Indonesia, anche se non c'e' niente di ufficiale e dipende da chi ti trovi di fronte". Sono gia' un tantino piu' ...
Flying Day.
... Kupang, except flights via Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Singapore, Bangkok or Hong Kong, is to fly via Dili. Other connections within Indonesia were difficult and unclear so I bought the one flight only, in blind, and will try to find something when got ...
Timor Leste Consulate in Kupang
Early morning I rode to Timor Leste consulate. I had my application filled out and was prepared to talk to some one, who understand my problem and help me to obtain necessary letter quickly, so I can go to the border same day. I talk to them over phone ...
West Timor
... thinking there is nothing to do, beware of the following series of events which may sneak up on you: You meet some off duty Indonesia Police Officers in the lobby of your run down hotel for which you are paying $6.50 per night because the $4.00 per night ...
Pelni boat from hell
... where people were gathering. Still there's no ferry in sight. We had no idea what the program was and being our first day in Indonesia we only knew a couple words of the language. We remember someone telling us to get to the front of the crowd to get a ...
Waiting for ship with bike.
Luckily airport was not far from my hotel, just a few hundred metres. I walked this distance at the morning - it's good to have no traffic to get there and no stress to be late. Entering airport is like entering somebody's garden, I almost stepped on ...
Timor Leste, attempt to enter.
... ła ich kasa i nie było szans na załatwienie sprawy na granicy. Zadzwoniłem więc do konsulatu Timor Leste w Kupang, pytając, co mam zrobić, żeby dostać ten durny list od ręki. Odpowiedzieli mi, że ...
Kupang
... schoenes) und mieten uns im Hotel Maliana ein (75.000,- DZ mit Ventilator u. Bad, inkl. Nachmittagskaffee und Fruehstueck). Kupang ist eine mittelgrosse Hafenstadt mit entspannter Atmosphaere. Karl und ich fuehlen uns auf Anhieb wohl, wir machen am ...
Timor to Lombok
... trying to find a map so that you can see the wonderful islands we visited - well worth a trip before the crowds find them... Indonesia has really been fantastic, the people here have the best sense of humour, if Thailand is the land of smiles then this is ...
Indo!
... greener. These only became more apparent as we screamed along the hilly, windy and narrow road for the next 5 hours into Kupang. Bustling with motor-scooters, mini-van taxis and people, yet Kupang has nothing of special tourist interest, apart from my ...
Goodbye Dili, hello Kupang
... men had been hacked to death with machetes and their homes burned down. Jan. 23, 2007 Tuesday, Maya Beach Hotel, Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia [GPS 10 09.408S 123 35.121E] From Dili we took a Paradise Tours bus across the Indonesian border to ...
Hrana v Indoneziji
Ker naju vsi sprasujete kako je tu s hrano, vam jo na kratko opiseva. Res je, da nama, vsaj v zacetku, prebavne tezave niso bile tuje. In res je tudi, da mocno pogresava domaco kuhinjo, gogoburger, cadrski sir... :) Kljub vsemu je tu hrana dobra, ...
Roti
Roti ist die suedlichste Insel Indonesiens, bin somit schon fast wieder in Australien unten angekommen. Es ist noch frueh in der Saison und erst ein paar Leute haben den Weg nach Nembrala in Angriff genommen. Dementsprechend wenige Surfer tummeln sich ...
Thanks and good bye Indonesia
... sick of it all, that writing about all our experiences would leave a horribly bad taste. So let me finish by saying that Indonesia is a country of stunning natural beauty. I might feel different about it had I not strained from the tourist track. And I ...
We're on our way again
... more time to clear. Finally we were ready and on our way only 50 mins later than flight-planned. We set course for Kupang, Indonesia – a 3.5 hr journey if all went well. Just after half way we had to pick our way around the increasing cloud ...
Reaching Kupang
... only a little help from the Government. He had plans to plant a forest on his home island of Lembata Island, Indonesia with 6million trees (he has more support from the Government for this particular project). He is also instrumental in raising donations ...
Holding Pattern
... our journey along the Indonesian Archipelago. A long cigar-shaped island, it is divided in two, the western half belonging to Indonesia, the east a separate, independent country, Timor Leste (East Timor). The word Timor (Timur) itself is Malay for ...
Everybody Needs Some Time Alone
... concrete buildings rose from the darkness, empty widows staring out into the night; structures more suited to Lebanon than Indonesia. As I came around a corner, a pair of hobo fires burning in empty oil barrels marked the entrance to Night's Kitchen. ...
Indo Hustle, A Critique
There's something I want to get off my chest here, because my quest for even-temperedness and balance denies me an outlet in the real world. So allow me to bend your ears, my delicious little narwhals, for I have something to say to some of the people ...
1. Stardate: Long Forgotten - Cabin Boy's Log...
... magazines for his collection of boat photos?...Magazines for a machine gun?...] And so it came to pass that our passage through Indonesia was secured by two "female art" DVDs that the skipper "happened to have" onboard. The passports would be magically ...
Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia
To get from Flores to Java, you have to fly via Kupang on West Timor, where we enjoyed a awesome night dive and our first dive in natural fresh water cave. Thanks to Donovan from ...
Settling down in Kupang
... at the end of the beautiful acapella song, I motioned that they had given me goosebumps. 80% of the people here in Kupang are Catholic and the church figures largely in day-to-day life. Large convents and seminaries are scattered throughout the ...
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