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Indonesia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Indonesia
Superb diving and unexpected surprises
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE Day : 143 Temperature : 33 degrees Weather : Sunny Diving in Asia, and particular in Lembeh has been great for several reasons. The first is that it is completely unlike any diving we have done before and there are so many wonderfully ...
Tsunami Memories
This is a top pick! ... itself didn't seem to have many visual scars from that fateful day and, in fact, looked like any other town in Indonesia (outside of the roads which will have to deteriorate greatly before matching the chaotic mess in the rest of the country)- we ...
Bali, continued
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Waterfalls, Gibbons, and Planting Rice
This is a top pick! The Harau Valley is a must-see. Like much of Sumatra, it seems like it’s always the low season and you’ll have the place pretty much to yourself. We only saw a couple of other travelers in the entire valley over the ...
Indonesia - Bali
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Day 160
This is a top pick! 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. ...
Time to stuff the sausage please
This is a top pick! Slept in until the afternoon dive time, the gods were with us as the electricity stayed on so we had air con and the roosters were relatively quiet. We dove Meno Bounty, which is a sunken former floating restaurant. We called it tire point due to all the ...
Ahhh Bali
This is a top pick! Where to begin... Singapore ended up being a very upscale, clean, easy to get around city. Which I guess is what we expected. I have never seen a city with so much ongoing constuction of highrises. Due to some severe jet lag we headed back to the ...
Mount Merapi & Yogyakarta - Day 184
This is a top pick! ... Rinjani (Lombok) is an easy hike. I can really feel my fitness improving after all the trekking I've done in Malaysia and Indonesia, although I'm still pretty far from where I want to be. Not a finely tuned mountain goat just yet. I didn't feel ...
Indonesia - Location Summary
This is a top pick! LOCATION SUMMARY - Indonesia Location: Bali, Indonesia Duration: 13 days Sights 6 People 8 Food 7 Accommodation 7 Ease of Travel ...
3 Rounds of Golf
This is a top pick! 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. ...
Motorbike Ride near Aceh
This is a top pick! We had plenty of time, so I was glad we took a day to see the area around Aceh. You can tell not a lot of foreigners head out that way. Although, we did meet a lot of people very interested in us. They love to practice their English and show visitors ...
Minangkabau Tour
This is a top pick! This is one of the several day-trips offered from Bukittinggi, and it's probably the one I most highly recommend. I think we paid $30 or so to have a driver for the day and a guide who spoke English. Our guide was great, the vehicle was nice, and as you ...
Singapore to Bali via Hong Kong....
This is a top pick! On Sunday 4 September, we flew from Kota Kinabalu back to Johor Bahru on mainland Malaysia. We had woken up that morning in Mount Kinabalu Park, taken a bas mini into the city and spent the day emailing, shopping and doing admin before flying in the ...
Bored of bartering in Bali
This is a top pick! We woke up to find that the WIFI had been turned off in the night so the downloading hadn't got as far as we had liked. Andrew wasn’t too happy (he’s become a bit obsessed with the whole downloading things, I often find him just staring at ...
Welcome to the Southern Hemisphere
This is a top pick! Or is it Australia???? The rain woke us up at 7.45am coming down in torrents against the windows. We got up and showered before anybody else woke up even Qian Ying. We had some of Siong's mum’s steamed chocolate cake for breakfast with ...
No room at the inn...
This is a top pick! After an unforgettable two days cruising Komodo and Rinca aboard 'Mitra Bajo' in the company of two fellow South Africans, we docked back at Labuanbajo in the mid-afternoon of Saturday 10 September. Though we were considering doing a dive or two in the ...
Critters, critters everywhere
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 141 Temperature : 33 degrees Weather : Sunny So here we are on Pulau Lembeh, on the north west tip of Sulawesi. We have come here for the world famous "muck diving" of the Lembeh Straits. Welcome to an alien world ...
Diving and motorbiking on the east coast
This is a top pick! And so it was goodbye Flores... we'd seen and experienced some unique and traditional ways of life, revelled in the vast, sparsely populated landscapes dotted with volcanoes, and loved the people. We arrived in Denpasar at about sunset on Thursday 22 ...
Lombok to Surabaya
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Little Australia
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door...
This is a top pick! He Said: Bali is sort of an anomaly. Indonesia currently is the world's largest Muslim nation (there are more Muslims here than the entire Middle East) but the small island of Bali is the last remaining pocket of what was once a vast Buddhist and Hindu ...
Fire dancing
This is a top pick! We packed up our bags in the morning and after breakfast we headed for the bus that would take us to Ubud (thankfully all the water in the alleys had drained away so it was a dry walk). After an hour and half bus ride we arrived in Ubud and was ...
Bajawa to Labuanbajo
This is a top pick! Sun 15 Aug - Day 105 after a breakfast of two thick pieces of toast and a hard boiled egg, we're n the bus by 7am. We're travelling to Labuanbajo on the west coast of Flores, a journey of 9 hours. The mountainousterain on Flores means the road ...
Day1-2 on Terawangan
This is a top pick! On the day we were scheduled to leave for the Gilli's we had to be at the bus stop by 6:45 so we ate a quick breakfast then left. The bus ride was OK, then we got onto a boat and it turned out the trip was quicker than they told us which was nice. After ...
what is Bali?
This is a top pick! Describe Bali? This is a start.... Stone carvings decorating houses, temples, street corners...everywhere. Gods, goddesses, indescribable creatures...well taken care of ...all wearing cloth sarongs and waist sashes and most with a parasol ...
Train Ride and Good Advice
This is a top pick! ... often mean unlimited opportunities. As a result, I have a responsibility to take advantage of that. In this case, we were in Indonesia, and there was a train that ran once a week from outside of Bukittinggi to an old coal-mining town a few hours away. ...
Surabaya to Nunukan to Tawau
This is a top pick! Mon 23 August - Day 113 Having already experienced life aboard a Pelni Ship we know what to expect from the ships cook. Not a lot. So with this in mind, we decide to raid a local supermarket in search of inbetween meal snacks. We do good, real good and ...
Togean Islands
This is a top pick! ... onto the bus. This brings me to an interesting point about personal space, a concept which is clearly non-existant in Indonesia. Let’s create the picture. Imagine your typical rickety old Indonesian bus. I am in the window seat, Kevin is in ...
the end of a life....
This is a top pick! June 12 Crack of dawn on a spider boat out to visit with the dolphins and then some snorkeling on the reef.......all sounds great except that last night was a night of hellacious hot....the hotel is great....even has a swimming pool and, with ...