Surabaya, Indonesia Travel Blogs

*Day 53: Ary's Hospitality
Jul 14, 2008 (18 photos)

... first stop was Surabaya's Chinese mosque. Strangely, it was a Chinese explorer from the Ming dynasty who spread Islam across Indonesia and there are several monuments to him scattered throughout the city. The mosque itself wasn't more than a small recently ...

Lombok to Surabaya
Sep 2, 2004

... 3 hours earlier than we were led to believe. The bus station clock says 5am and we reaslise that in the travel timewarp that is Indonesia we're back in a GMT + 7 zone. A metred taxi drops us outside Paviljoen Hotel in Central Surabaya where we stayed 2 ...

Jakarta to Surabaya
Aug 20, 2004

... used their coins and he doesn't fare so well. Surabaya, with a population of 2.4 million is the second largest city in Indonesia, and the capital of East Java. It also has an enormous port and is home to the Indonesia Navy. Near the harbour there ...

From Bromo to Surabaya to Pontianak
Mar 22, 2006 (11 photos)

... between Indonesia and the USA. Both of their children studied and live in the US and have no intention of returning to Indonesia. I liked Henny and Djoko's house as it reminded me very much of Frank Lloyd Wright. Lots of open space and the incorporation ...

Not much to write home about...
Sep 12, 2006

Well the bus here wasnt too bad, managed to get a bit of sleep and eventually found a hotel when we arrived (more exoensive and not as nice as the one in bali) spent yesterday wandering round and went to the cinema in this big shopping mall, then today we ...

What a long day
May 22, 2008 (2 photos)

... , we have since realised that any time of the day is rush hour traffic. For some reason, I never really thought of Indonesia as being heavily populated. I was absolutely dumbfounded to realise that the island of Java alone has a population of nearly 130 ...

Gogyakarta -> Mt. Bromo
Jan 2, 2009 (5 photos)

Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien (ma phrase favorite) Nous devons vous faire un resume de notre disparition vers le Mont-Bromo. (pas d'internet bien entendu les volcans font sans doute des signaux de fumee donc pas besoin d'internet. hihi) ...

Road to Yogya: Top Moments in SE Asia
Feb 23, 2009

... and Monkey Forest, where a felled tree was chainsawed away to allow us passage. 19)  Gili Air, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia:  Getting Engaged on a Tropical Island:  Enjoying our last dive on Gili Air seeing some unique fish, Mary and I ...

Last Post of the year: Holiday treats!
Dec 19, 2008

... go through the program with you on this one.  But, I keep leaving the program behind.  So, there is Surabaya Symphony Orchestra who holds an quarterly concert.  The concerts are about 4 hours long with 20 different songs by different groups ...

7 piece French F1
Jul 2, 2007

... was the order of the day after a good nights rest and we proceeded to spend a 'very pleasant' 5 hours shopping in Surabaya Mall. I 'really enjoyed it'. We purchased a selection of ladies things which were placed in a designer bag and we also bought a ...

Surabaya
May 21, 2007

this is surabaya

Mind If I Climb Into This Smoking Crater?
Oct 17, 2000

... part of town. We learned soon after that, from what we saw, there was nothing but rough parts of town in Surabaya (2.4 million people) with one exception, that great western haven of comfort and capitalism........the mall! Yep, I'm ashamed to say that we ...

Mount Bromo
Aug 13, 2008 (10 photos)

The first volcanoe I visited.    We began our journey around midnight with sleepy eyes but energetic heart. It took 3 hours to reach the first stop to change our vehicle to Jeep. The older style Jeep like the ones we see in the Indiana ...

Sattelschlepper quer / Truck across
Jun 17, 2007 (3 photos)

... block all lanes because the ***(zensored)*** truckdriver feels like to U-Turn his long vehicle there's little chance to avoid a sliding fall. Fortunately not much happened. In Surabaya there will be everything prepared to move on (read the entry after).

Marche au Mt. Bromo
Jan 3, 2009 (54 photos)

Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien (ma phrase favorite) Nous devons vous faire un resume de notre disparition vers le Mont-Bromo. (pas d'internet bien entendu les volcans font sans doute des signaux de fumee donc pas besoin d'internet. hihi) ...

View point no1 (Mt Bromo)
Jan 4, 2009 (11 photos)

Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien (ma phrase favorite) Nous devons vous faire un resume de notre disparition vers le Mont-Bromo. (pas d'internet bien entendu les volcans font sans doute des signaux de fumee donc pas besoin d'internet. hihi) ...

Crossing into Java
Mar 3, 2006

... . Everyone has a wave and a "Hello Mister" for you as you walk down the street. After Jakarta, Surabaya is the second biggest city in Indonesia. Imagine massive congested roads, smog filled air, open sewers, and a dirty river and you could almost be ...

The scariest place in the world
Sep 20, 2008

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Have visa will travel...
Dec 4, 2008

Let me start to blog with saying this, I can't believe its December and tomorrow I leave to go to Cambodia.  I never would have thought that I would travel to Cambodia.  I feel so lucky to have this chance.   Its funny traveling over here.& ...

Bye bye Bali
Feb 23, 2007 (4 photos)

... nbsp; You don't want to be wearing a silk shirt when you smoke these.  The odor of clove cigarettes is distinctive to Indonesia and we've smelled them on the buses and streets since we got here.  The patriarch started the company after the turn ...

Mt. Bromo
Feb 28, 2007 (19 photos)

Feb. 27, 2007 Tuesday Chris and Endang knocked off work today to drive us to Mt. Bromo.  [07 56.409S 112 57.162E]  We took off early at 7 AM because there was a good likelihood we'd get delayed around where a mud volcano has buried several ...

Welcome to Surabaya International School
Aug 1, 2008 (12 photos)

Here are some pictures of my school! :)

Fairy Tales in Indonesia
Nov 28, 2008

On Friday, the expatriate women's association of Surabaya held their annual christmas ball at the Sheraton.   I had planned to go to this event since I first knew about it.   Firstly, who can say no to a ball.   I didn't worry ...

Surabaya - spet na Javi
Jul 16, 2006 (5 photos)

... ! Zadnjic sva se oglasila s S Sulawesija, sedaj pa se nahajava ze na vzhodnem delu otoka Java, v 7-milijonskem mestu Surabaya. No, vmes sva na Sulawesiju obiskala nacionalni park Tangkoko, kjer sva imela moznost videti nekaj endemicnih zivalskih vrst - ...

Through the dry lands
Jul 29, 2004

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Surabaya
Mar 25, 2009 (4 photos)

Surabaya presented Indonesia as its most modern, even more so that Jakarta. I was planning to spend a day or so there but I don't know if I was just feeling city wary but I did not bond with the place. Maybe I was not staying in the right part I don't know ...

Festival Of Nations
Nov 15, 2008 (61 photos)

... How this is exactly what I wanted.  I started to feel the happy tears well up in my eyes.   I do complain about Surabaya and some days I am very homesick.  But, I am so grateful for this experience and feel like this was exactly what I ...

Luxury on the cheap
May 23, 2007 (1 photos)

... as being available from 72 US dollars per night.  Tim got all husbandly and made the executive decision that, since I was finding Indonesia quite hard and since it was such a good deal, if we could really get it for that price we should stay there ...

Surabaya
Jan 16, 2007

Just a stopover ater a train ride from Yogyakarta!! Big, but boring city

Across Java
Sep 30, 2006 (8 photos)

... of very poor english movies, interrupted by commercials and indonesian songs, which I have to qualify as quite poor too. Arrived in Surabaya at 6am. The sunrise during the last hour in the train was glorious. A white mist was covering the country side, ...