Indonesia
Travel Blogs from Indonesia, Indonesia
update of last couple days
Day 3/4- On the first day of our diving we did our navigation test and it went pretty good, even though we were supposed to dive again at 2:30 we canceled because Jackie was having trouble with her ears and it's not a good idea to dive if your ears are ...
Cycling the Island
Woken by both the cry for prayer and the terrible voice of the young local girl who resides in the building just over my bungalow, I was up early. I spent the first half of the day at Gili Café, enjoying breakfast on the beach and internet access. I ...
Surf and Turf
Our final day of diving was to Haji's Wall which was quite beautiful, followed by an excursion to Moyo Waterfall. Upon arrival to the humble seaside Muslim town, Jeremy disappeared to a second level bungalow to negotiate with the locals before we were ...
Lake Maninjau
There wasn't much to do here, but we weren't looking for lots of excitement. We had a nice view and were the only people at the resort (I use that word lightly) most of the time. We were right on the water and saw people fishing and working in the ...
Ferry to Pulau Bintan
Travel always has inherent challenges. Often these come in form of language or infrastructure, but Singapore showed me that even in a modern, English-speaking country, things don't always come smoothly. In fact, it's probably because ...
Day 54: Gunung Bromo & Bus to Bali
... in that much pain from that many different ailments before. The Mt Bromo sunrise was not only one of the main reasons I'd chosen Indonesia over Vietnam though, but also the main reason I came to urban industrial Java at all as opposed to going straight to ...
Day 55: Ubud, Beach Bumming & the Memorial
Ahh, what a good night's sleep, and in a great budget hotel too. The Indonesia section of the LP book scores again. After devouring a banana pancake, I headed out to the beach. Kuta is basically a larger, busier Asian clone of Rosarito, so anyone who's ...
South Africans on dragon safari
Early on Thursday morning, 8 September, we made our escape from crazy Kuta and boarded a Merpati flight to Labuanbajo on the eastern island of Flores. For the duration of the two-hour flight we enjoyed excellent views of the string of islands to the east ...
Flores - Labuanbajo and Komodo National Park
Mon 16 Aug - Day 106 Woken from sound sleep at 4am by a nearby cockerel, who set off a cockerel chain reaction. No idea what they're playing at as it doesn't start getting light until 5.30am. Labuanbajo is a small fishing community with a busy port ...
Bill, Ben and Bali......
... we were taxied back to his villa at Nusa Dua. Kish is a friend from north London we actually met on our last trip to Indonesia, in Borneo. After a somewhat faulting start in borneo(we thought he was trying to hustle us) we got on famously, united in our ...
Settling in on Pulau Weh
This was an email I wrote while on the island. Now it'll be my travel blog with a little reflection at the end. We've been here a week. Our bungalow is perched on the side of a hill overlooking the reef. The water is a swirl of turquoise and ...
Do you want any leeches for that?
We had all had an unsettled night's sleep and hadn’t got much between us all. The rocks under the camping mats were to blame and every time you turned over it was painful. Still we all knew this wasn’t going to be the Ritz but as ...
Exploring the Town
Our plan was to go to Sumatra and Sulawesi over the course of 2 months, but Air Asia stopped their flights to Sulawesi. So we settled on just spending 6 weeks in Sumatra. We started in Aceh before making our way south toward Padang to fly back to KL then ...
Unplanned bonus time on Bali!
On Monday afternoon (26 September), after a great day's motorbiking among the volcanoes and paddy fields of eastern Bali, we sped back to Padang Bai to catch the shuttle bus to the airport. We arrived at about 8.30pm with plenty of time to spare - our ...
Bandung & Tangkuban Parahu Volcano - Day 185-186
Day 185 - 24/08/08 A 9 hour train journey today to Bandung from Yogyakarta. Bandung is surrounded on three sides by beautiful volcanic peaks and is a little off beaten track for most travellers, it should be an interesting place to visit, especially ...
Chapter 23: The Komodo Debacle
... idea because we ended up coated in soot. At least we met some chatty young local guys. One was studying economics (in Indonesia?! Poor guy...) and was interested in becoming pen-pals or something. Another kept calling me "handsome," which was funny. ...
A beach haven and a wreck dive
... a bemo together and sat around chatting while we waited for the plane (which ended up leaving an hour late). Goodbye, Flores and Lembata! We'd been absolutely enchanted by the friendly people and dramatic scenery of this far eastern corner of ...
Bali
Bali: beautiful. Indonesians: wonderfully friendly. Weather: oh my God I am in an oven (at least I am assuming an oven gets hot; poor Phil, I have never actually USED one...). I love hot weather. Loveitloveitloveit. Can't get enough of MICHIGAN in ...
Tyre-d of call to prayer so relax at Gili Air!
... and the policemen who drove around looking for fit young girls to chat to and perv over! One of the problems of traveling in Indonesia is that you can only get a one-month visa if you buy on arrival which, for such a huge country is nothing really. ...
Motorbike Ride through the North
This was a great trip. I love the countryside. And even after 4 years in Southeast Asia, I still love rice paddies. The terracing and the unending fields of green just mesmerize me. HD Video. Watch it in 720. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjxjL0nUVmQ ...
Deutschlanders and dragons
We arrived at the port of Labuan Lombok slightly before sunset after a day being bundled around in a tiny van from one place to the next. We'd met our fellow passengers, twelve Germans, three Swedes, an Irishman and a Polish girl. Should make for an ...
Island fever
After another morning of banana pancakes we decide to spend another day in Gili doing a walking tour of the tiny island. We book our transport to our next destination, Ubud back in Bali. We than head north along the beach stopping to swim, snorkel, ...
Day 162
23rd September - Sailing the Indian Ocean Today I watched some movies. Oscar winning "The Departed" was the pick. While going up the stairs I crossed the Chief Officer. He's second in command and the crew had told me he was the most ...
Labujuan Bajo
Another early morning rise and diving by 7:07AM today we started with a site called The Passage. This was a straight off the boat entry into a fairly shallow dive of 12m the majority of the hour that we were down. Crossing paths with a turtle, at least ...
Liveaboard Komodo Cruise
The daily routine on the live aboard didn't deviate too much. Each morning we woke to a beautiful sunrise and depending on location we either dove first thing or started the morning with a delicious meal cooked by Nassir. Nassir couldn’t have been ...
Welcom to Komodo
Today was a full packed day starting at 7:00AM we took a dingy over to the park entrance for an hour stroll to see the Komodo dragons. Upon arrival we were greeted by the monkeys and our guides. These young kids were going to be our protectors against ...
Couchsurfing Bali
... get ready for the night out. We did a little pre-partying at our villa, drinking “arak” cocktails, a drink native to Indonesia similar to soju. A few played drinking games while the rest of us viewed the day’s photos on my laptop. A few ...
Damn chickens! and dive pictures
The entire trip we had been plagued by the sound of chickens. I thought those F'ing things started at sunrise but noooo, they like to get going around 3 a.m. We've had a bunch of them living near our bungalow and they've been keeping me up every night. ...
Bloody Mary? Bloody hell!
... can tell where you are in the world just by popping in to a shop and looking what flavours of Lays they stock. Here in Indonesia it is Salmon Teriyaki or Nori Seaweed, in India it was Massala, China had Hot and Spicy and Malaysia was all about the ...
The best cinema in the world
It was our last full day on the Gili's and we couldn’t decide what to do. We were still a bit sore from our extreme sunbathing two days ago so weren’t overly interested in burning it in even more so we decided to go and hire a film hut on the ...
