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Travel Blogs from Java, Indonesia
Berastagi - Danau Toba
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Another Volcano - smelt like eggs!
This is a top pick! ... . I had intended to go to see a volcano and some hot springs, but as I have many days to kill as the west of java isn't exactly packed with activities, here I am in the equivalent of somewhere pretty dull like derby (the dullest place in England I've ever ...
Another Day, Another Plan
This is a top pick! Ticket booked to Bandung in the morning, PLans made for hostels to stay in over next few weeks. Banks checked to make sure I have enough money to last until my return. Return date aiming for - 12th of December - reason - the friends I made ...
Chilli con Rain
This is a top pick! 10:35 Once again I slept late. I just feel like I've lost all my energy recently and I'm not sure why. Perhaps I'll have a new lease of life when I get to Singapore and Malaysia, I really hope so. I had some tea and bread and read my book, I think Tami ...
On Top of the World
This is a top pick! Tonight I had already booked a midnight hike to Mount Merapi, the local active volcano. The van filled with seven others arrived at 10:30PM and drove an hour and up into the mountains. Not a smooth drive to say the least. Our fee was sold to us as ...
Chill Time
This is a top pick! Today was another relaxing day. I woke for the 9:00am yoga class, had breakfast and a shower before catching a becak. I didn't mention before but a becak is the local transport, taxi substitute which is a cart attached to a bicycle that they guys line ...
Ready for Asia
This is a top pick! ... was as blatant as can be between the efficient operating system in Dubai to the inevitably delayed and confusing functionality in Indonesia. For example the flight I booked upon arrival in Jakarta to get me to Yogyakarta was scheduled to depart at ...
FOREVER on a bus
This is a top pick! 14:33 Having spent the morning not doing very much at all, i had some lunch with the lovely folk of MaenBola next door and a chat, and was given a ride to the bus station which was quite some distance and the traffic was just awful. It was quite ...
Bogor Botanical Gardens
This is a top pick! ... and pouring out fumes that made m cough and squint my eyes, it was a hullabaloo, and I didn't like it one bit. The problem with java in particular is the traffic, wall to wall, dirty, smelly, sit-in-it-for-hours, noisy, run-you-over traffic. The worst I ...
Big city, bright lights - Jakarta
This is a top pick! After a rather unsuccessful attempt in taking a 28 hour bus to Jakarta, I opted to fly as the price was the same as the bus ticket and i got picked up at my wonderful Merdeka home stay and dropped off at the beautifully new Padang airport. In less than ...
A day of let downs
This is a top pick! ... and if you smile then they look at you suspiciously. What could be more unfriendly than that. 16:35 Moved to Hotel Indonesia only 70,000, that's much more like the cost I was expecting. Donnie finally got in touch and said he was coming on ...
Getting lost and penniless in Jakarta
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Off to Java Boats, Trains and Buses
This is a top pick! ... . It was about 7, I didn't have dinner, I just went to bed, to sleep. Best: being on the go somewhere else! Worst: getting up at 3am Beautiful: watching the java countryside pass by in continuous bright blue skies, acid green fields and endless palm ...
Volcanic Bromo Sunrise then Yogyakarta
This is a top pick! 08:31 We were woken at 2am by knocking, this was an hour earlier than expected but we went out and got on a pretty crappy bus with all the seat foam missing and ripped leather. It rather appeared as if a wild animal had been shut in, gone into a rage and ...
Another Day on the Back of a Moped
This is a top pick! Now that I had access to someone with a scooter, Agoes and I arranged for him to escort me around to all the major sites today. Again for a fee. Original meeting time was scheduled for 9:30 but I chose to sleep in. First stop we went directly to the ...
Bali
This is a top pick! 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!
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Borobodur
This is a top pick! 10:15 Clearly I'm tired, I slept till 9, through hammering, aircraft landing, people talking and traffic noise. I turned on my phone. Nothing, if Donnie had come today like he said then he would have text. Now we see him for the con man he is. It was ...
Sleeping Sleeping
This is a top pick! 11:01 I slept in a bit this morning, Tami went to work, so I was left in the house with the housekeeper who is a young girl. I got up and wet down to the shop and bought some bread and milk and supernoodles so I can feed myself for the day. I boiled the ...
Jakarta is just too big...
This is a top pick! ... looked online for a gym nearby, turned out there was one posh looking one about fifteen minutes walk away in the plaza Indonesia, called celebrity fitness, equivalent to one of our chain gums at home, with 25 locations throughout Indonesia and soon to he ...
The View Across Bandung...
This is a top pick! Day 239 ; So after the hectic night last night we decided to move back towards the town and as the prices of the rooms don't seem to change if you are in the town or miles away we moved back to the very first hotel we went into when we first arrived ...
Prambanan Temple
This is a top pick! 09:14 Woke before 7 and had tea outside our room, then went for breakfast, then got the bus down to the sultans palace for a look around. I didn't know this, but there still is a sultan here who lives in the palace. 13:46 Got my passport with visa! ...
Rambles
This is a top pick! Day 244 Seeing as how we don't have a lot to say about today, we're just going to tell you a little about how are experience with the Poncowinatan hotel where we stayed, because they kind of made our stay, and hopefully anyone in the budget end of ...
Dirty Dirty Hot Hot
This is a top pick! Day 245; 10th After the bus journey from hell we arrived in Malang it was about 5am it was pretty quiet and after one bloke having a bit of a joke with the price he wanted to take us to the hotel we walked out to the main road and got one of the ...
Hello friendly indonesia!!!
This is a top pick! Day 235 ; Crazily early start but surprisingly all quite cheery, as soon as we were up we were out the door, walked to the end of the road and got a taxi to the airport, only had to tell the driver which airline and he knew which terminal, Budget ...
Caught the late morning flight to bali it ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Tempes at sunrise!
This is a top pick! ... smaller scale) - which is amazing when you think how far they are away and is the biggest Hindu temple complex in Java! We headed round the complex backwards (not literally!) and therefore managed to miss all the hawkers which completely baffled them!! ...