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Indonesia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Indonesia
Day 52: A New Friend
This is a top pick! A 4:30 am wakeup call got me up just in time to catch the first bus to Borobudur, the nearby ancient Buddhist temple ruin, largest Buddhist complex in the world & hyped as one of SE Asia's truly great monuments. It lived up to the hype, but was very ...
Jungle Highs, AC lows thats the way Indonesia goes
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Time for the buddy check
This is a top pick! ... along the beach dead in their tracks. The whole night we talked about how lucky all of us are to be in the Gilis in Indonesia for this experience. Not sure what time we finally made it to bed. Travelers note: When picking a room on Gili be aware ...
A scorpion sting makes Bali bor-ing!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Sponsored by Roxy
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Clear water cool breezes
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Tracking wild Orang-Utans in the Sumatran Jungle
This is a top pick! ... of course was a bit braver and managed perfectly well on his own! We met up with David from London who was travelling in Indonesia for a month between jobs. Funnily enough we'd bumped into him in a round-about kind of way in Pulau Weh a week previously, ...
Another day at the beach
This is a top pick! Jon and I were up again early, we really are old people. After breakfast we looked into options to get to the Gili Islands. The tour guide guy told us to be careful when changing money as it is a common scam to use a slip of the hand trick and drop ...
Woke up this morning and got myself a Bintang
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
monkeying around...
This is a top pick! Up to Ubud. I'm expecting a small town in the mountains...a little cooler, with lots of artists...also lots of ex-pats...plus a monkey sanctuary. Well, small it is not. Apparently Ubud has grown and grown and now has more shops ...
Day 51, Pt.2: Mister Chah'Ching
This is a top pick! ... that's been fighting for independence for the better part of a decade. I asked them if they'd ever traveled outside Indonesia, and while Assif hadn't, Ryan mentioned having spent time studying for a bit in a Saudi Arabian religious institution. My racist ...
Coffee Plantations and Sulphur Lakes
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE : Day : 114 Temperature : 24 degrees Weather : Cloudy, intermittent rain, some sunshine We left Bromo at 6am on Sunday morning and made our way back to Probolinggo. After catching an extremely busy, hot and overloaded public bus ...
Days 49-50: Singapore to Yogya
This is a top pick! ... . A 5,000 rupiah (50 cents) bribe was required to rescue the rucksack from the ferry baggage claim Nazis. PS: I'm now entering Indonesia day 3, and it's quickly rising to the title of "favorite country I've traveled to." More thoughts on this next time, ...
Finding Gili Meno
This is a top pick! ... peaks 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 ...
Pulau Weh
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 87 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Overcast Indonesia!!! It's so great to be here. This country is immensly vast and has so much to offer with thousands of different islands each with their own different cultures, landscapes and ...
Tiny Tarsiers and Black Crested Macaques
This is a top pick! /DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 140 Temperature : 33 degrees Weather : Overcast With our ear infections being treated with antibiotics and a few days to kill until we could go diving again we decided to head to the Tangkoko National Park to see some wildlife. ...
Lounging by the lake & smiling til our jaws ache!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
*Day 61: Homesick :-(
This is a top pick! In the Himalayas, trekking alone with a private guide had its drawbacks, mainly loneliness. This morning the drawbacks of having company on such an adventure surfaced, with five people including me to wake-up, we didn't get going until ...
Yogyakarta
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE : Day : 106 Temperature : 34 degrees Weather : Sunny, humid and very hot OK people, panic over!!!! Thank you for all your concerns and comments, and sorry to have caused you all to worry. Although it was a horrible, horrible experience we ...
Costa del Kuta
This is a top pick! 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, ...
The last leg of our Asia tour - Singapore and Bali
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Kamakazie scuba
This is a top pick! 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 ...
cooling down in sparkling water...
This is a top pick! Been feeling generally overheated since getting here...like I'm constantly sweating and sticky...I swear, even the bath water is sticky. But today my core temperature is cooled down. I grab snorkel gear and head over to what's called The Blue ...
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 ...
What were we thinking?
This is a top pick! Today is the day we climb to the top of Mt. Batur to se the sunrise. I wake up around 12 am with incredibly painful stomach cramps. I have some of the worst traveler's diarrhea I've ever had. Cramping, expelling demons, 10 minutes of sleep, and ...
there's a market for everything...
This is a top pick! June 18 What an amazing adventure I had this evening...unexpected as they usually are. Yogyakarta, (promounced joeg-ja-karta), which is a city in Java, has a bird market right in the middle of town, near the Sultan's palace. I thought I'd ...
Marlin's alive captain!
This is a top pick! ... -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 ...
The Banda Brothers
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Our first motorbike crash........SMASH!!!!!
This is a top pick! I finished yesterday with the words "If I ever go near another motorbike please shoot me". Maybe its Karma, maybe its chance or maybe things do come in threes. I woke and the ribs were still not back up to scratch so there is still no surfing. We leave ...
What is below the trapdoor
This is a top pick! ... weight" I’ve still got it where it matters. We managed to go higher than any of the tubsters from Australia or Indonesia and for a scary moment thought we were going over the top to certain death. Next we tried the Superbowl which again was ...