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Travel Blogs from Indonesia
Eenie, Meenie, Mienie............Bali!
Happy Valentines Day, We saved the best for last in Thailand and went to Phi Phi Island. This was a fun island full of young travelers with an amazing backdrop. As soon as we arrived I "literally" ran into a friend of mine ...
The Gili Islands – Sun, Surf and Scuba
The Gili Islands are a group of 3 tiny islands, just off t he coast of Lombak, the island to the immediate east of Bali. We've caught an early morning shuttle and ferry from Ubud to take us directly to Gili T – the largest of the 3 islands and the ...
Silly Gili
Simply needed to get out of Kuta, it is like so touristy, like not really Bali at all, I like never go to touristy places, ughh tourists. That's the general flow of conversation between the traveler types, I am smiling, nodding in agreement "hmm ...
Ubud Hospitality
... of water for agriculture throughout Bali. Most interestingly, I got an explanation about the excessive taxes on alcohol on Indonesia and how it has been hurting tourism. This also explained why the vodka we purchased before the Conrad tasted ...
Sweating Buckets
... ...why Bali? I thought she was going to Vietnam, Laos and stuff? Well a couple of reasons. One because the weather is better in Indonesia at this time of year and second...well I guess a kind of personal journey that led me there. Anyway why I got there ...
No Other Stream
"Are you not thirsty?" said the Lion. "I'm dying of thirst,” said Jill. “Then drink,” said the Lion. “May I - could I - would you mind going away while I do?” said Jill. The Lion answered this only by a look and a very ...
Lombok en Bali, Indonesie
De aankomst is Indonesie verliep niet heel georganiseerd. Zoals gepland stonden we om 20.30u op het vliegveld. Al snel hadden we ons visum en een taxi naar Homestay Jeti in Sanur (?) geregeld. Hier zouden we Petra, het nichtje van Anne W, ontmoeten. Zij ...
First Blog of Bali
Well at last we are doing blog. Here is what happened... Got up had toast went to Matt's house, had bacon and egg and say goodbye to Sweetcorn. Matt made sure he got everything he needed in his bag including butternut squash and ...
The town with a funny name ^^
Lewoleba...I'm not sure why we decided to stop here, we just really liked the name ;) Unfortunately the town was very disappointing and when we tried to rent a (very expensive) bike to explore the island they told us that we had to ...
A Walking Zombie I Was In Semarang Airport
Last night after having a long chat and multiple laughs over what transpired over this trip, we did not realise time was flying and finally when we head to be it was already three am. Oh gosh, I knew that this morning was going to be very difficult for ...
Ins Landesinnere nach Ubud
Nach 4 Tagen in Lovina war es an der Zeit, weiter zu ziehen. Kaum aufgestanden, kam auch schon der Besitzer des Gede Homestay`s daher und fragte, wann wir losfahren wollen (wir lassen uns naemlich von seinem Sohn chauffieren). Eigentlich sofort, aber ...
Lombok -> Sanur (Bali)
Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Voila, c'est fait , les souliers a Rejean sont demeure a Lombok, ils ont rendu l'ame hier. Nous avons avons oubllie de vous raconter qu'au Gili ils vendent des champignons magiques. Selon eux c'est ...
Bali, our holiday within a holiday.
So long Singapore, hello Bali! We arrived after a smooth flight and enjoyable flight with AirAsia into a country that was hot and humid. We jumped into a cab towards our first hotel. We plan on staying in three hotels, all of which we booked many weeks ...
Amazing experiences in Bali ( Part 2)
Whilst there are many different ceremonies and processions annually in Bali I was fortunate enough to attend a ceremony one evening (with some new friends) appropriately named Sekka Kecak. One of the locals who we knew participated in this male only ...
Solo et mon pote Budi
Pas mecontente de quitter Jogja… une heure de train plus tard, me voici arrivee a Solo, a la nuit tombee… Enfin une ville a taille humaine… Meme si au premier abord, les statues ne sont pas des plus accueillantes… on y trouve ...
Raja Ampat
... of the photo page of your passport and 3 Copies of the passport page with the Indonesian Visa. Guide Book : Diving Indonesia (a guide to the world's greatest diving), Periplus Action Guide, Kal Muller. More Information about Irian Jaya Dive, contact: ...
Indo rastas, fit surfers and Bali orphans
... Swift and her entourage, and the orphanage itself has sponsors all over the world. Mercy is a chain of orphanages throughout Indonesia; and most of the kids are refugees from past wars in Ambon and Timor, and some of them came from ...
Finding Nemo On Gili Meno
It’s July 22 and we are about to have our 4th night here. The original plan was 3 nights here and then we would move on to the larger island Gili Trawangan, but we have been enjoying it so much we asked for 2 more nights. The past 4 days have been ...
Last day :(
March 31 Today was our last full day in Bali. We still had some souvenir shopping to do so we headed to Kuta where they have a big, new mall right on the beach. We spent a couple hours there and then headed to lunch. We have tried a lot of different ...
Day 24: Just anther day in Ubud
It is easy to see why people say days blur into weeks and weeks into months in Ubud. Breakfast was as it was the day before. Out of the hotel around 10 to the museum in town. We toured some lovely art most of which is incomprehensibly complex with ...
Reflections of Bali
... . but there are still the loyal surfers! But beyond the beach, there seems to be lots to do... not only in bali, but Indonesia itself! In hindsight, its such a shame that I opted for the 7day visa... could easily spend a few weeks here. The weather has ...
Dragon hunting day 2: Volcano Island
Day 2 A combination of alcohol and being rocked like a baby had given me a great night's sleep. The only disturbance, of which I have no recollection, was to be moved off the top bunk and onto the bottom by Leyla who had spotted a cockroach run past her ...
Enter Southern Hemisphere
It was time to hit the skies once again, as we flew from Kuala Lumpur to Bali, Indonesia, and country number six on our trip! For me, it was the first time I had been to the Southern Hemisphere. We decided to stay in Kuta, a short ride away from the ...
One night in Jakarta
After having our daily dose of Starbucks we proceeded to get on the plane where half the staff of Kuala Lumpur Airport had questioned us and double made sure we were actually going to jakarta, we finally boarded the plane. We realised why they were ...
Yogyakarta Day 120 (17th Sept)
... to meet Stu, a guy I briefly met in Jakarta, he too had plans for leaving tommorow for Gunung Bromo, the natural wonder of indonesia, so we said we should get there via public transport the next day. After my internet session I met several of Stu's new ...
Back breaker
... Ijen on the Ijen Plateau. This is yet another of the many volcanoes defining the spine of the island of Java and much of Indonesia but with one small difference - the is a small sulphur vent which is mined manually by local men and carried painstakingly, ...
Return to Kuta
Back to Poppies Lane 1 to Taman Ayu guest house to spend our last few nights in Bali. Jenny departed and shortly Tilly followed!! Then we began our journey to ...
Jungle life
The trek had taken it out of us and so today was to be a very much in the rest category. We got up late and had a long breakfast next to the river without any kind of rush. It was nice to just look back and see a bit of village life. Buwit Lawang, is ...
A rainy day and the Monkey Forest!
Aujourd'hui nous nous sommes réveillés a environ 9h du matin. Sa pleuvait dehors, donc nos plans pour aller au parc d’Éléphant étais annuler. Quand je me suis réveillé, j’ai mangé un repas et je suis allé à la réception pour ...