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Travel Blogs from Indonesia
Hol dem Nutten ran!
Maaf maaf, komm her jetzt! Enthusiastisch ging es für uns schon früh morgens auf den Weg in den Waterbom Park. Voller Vorfreude auf den bevorstehenden Spaßtag mit seinem Lieblingsmädchen Piepenhoe ist Jimbo mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit vorrausgeheizt. ...
Bye bye Bali
Well its amazing how quickly our time in Bali has gone, however we are both looking forward to moving on, especially Max who will be seeing Ben in Perth in two days time. During the last five days we have made friends - ones that actually ...
Pempek...A Food That Is Synonymous To Palembang
Pempek is a food that is synonymous to Palembang City and no trip to Palembang will be complete if you had not tried this dish. It is made of steamed fish mixed with flour and comes in a few variations. Some are stuffed with eggs and some with ...
Not quite the Channel Crossing...
... for places it would therefore appear, every man for himself! Or not, as the case turned out. It's not by fluke that Indonesia ranks a healthy 4th in the world for corruption, and even this one had been sussed out. As the ship moored onto the dock, ...
Mangroves: it's a dirty business
Our last field site in Indonesia was in North Sulawesi--we'll let the photos tell the story. Sadly our trip to Indonesia is quickly drawing to a close. We have had an amazing time here and have been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of almost ...
Orangutans :)
We waved goodbye to Mizi our new found friend from Banda Aceh and headed south again back to our nemesis, Medan! After a rather uneventful but surprisingly refreshing 12 hour bus journey we arrived into Pining Baris bus terminal in Medan. We braced ...
Active volcano...yes please
6am up AGAIN...not complaining when its to climb an active volcano though!! Plastic bags on my feet, odd socks on top of them, wet trainers and a sesame street teesh later and I'm ready!! Looking hot if I do say so myself too!!ha ha!! Our private car ...
PARADISE FOUND
There are 3 Gili Islands North-West off the coast of Lombok: Gili Air, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan. They are all quite small, The largest being Gili Trawangan, at about 9 km around. They are quite close to the nearest Lombok shore, Gili Trawangan being ...
Rice & Monkeys
A new day dawns not helped by one rooster with its "cock a doodle doo” at some unearthly hour of the pre-early morning. The hotel is down a pathway behind other buildings so we were well away from the traffic noise. A really peaceful and relaxing ...
Bromo Style
I was awoken by a wake up call at 7:38am, fucking twats, I said 10am. Taxi. No mention was made of a fucking wake up call. I politely said thank you and put the phone down. At 8am there was a knock at the door to tell us our taxi was ready, when ...
Climbing Gunung Batur & Beautiful Ubud
We arrived in Bali & headed straight for Ubud a two hour drive into the hills in the centre of the island. We both loved the tiny town, with lots of traditional houses and beautiful Balinese architecture. We stayed at Sama's cottages where ...
White water rafting!!!
Last night, we went to the local shop, bought our litre bottles of beer for £1, and went to sit on the beach and watch the sunset, we're getting used to Bali now haha! And Yes.... You read the title right, today we went white water rafting! ...
Everything Begins the Same Way It Ends
We said goodbye to our Ubud Family and took a shuttle to Kuta, where we waited until it was time to go to the airport for our 2 am flight. It was supposed to be at the more decent hour of 11 pm but back in July we got an email saying that ...
Kicking back on the south coast
... effort though. It stopped seemingly in the middle of nowhere around the estimated time of arrival, so I asked someone with my broken Bahasa Indonesia if we were at Sidareja. Yes, but the platform wasn't long enough for the train, so I had to jump from ...
tagestrip nach danau bratan
d slalom strasse de berg duruf und immer en guete suug abgas ide nase simer nachere stund acho. mir hend glueck gah, es isch grad e zeremonie vo statte gange: d balinesInne hend ihri schoene chleider agah, di kunstvoll dekorierte gabe sind umetreit ...
So far
Managed to get away in the end up after 'aw the snaw'! Left Heathrow early doors on Wed 4th Feb with Singapore Airlines. Didn't want to get off the plane in Singapore, good food, 1000 film, tv and music channels (i'm used to cooncil telly an an ...
Tamer version of Kuta
Seminyak is a little quieter than Kuta Beach (with all the night clubs). Our hotel was a very long walk from the beach, so we rented a motorcycle again for our stay, and drove to Kuta Beach, which is a long ride for us; and I rented a surfboard to try ...
end of the road
boo. we are at the end. so, so not ready to leave! So we have spent our last days in a hotel with hot water in Semnyak, Bali . I cant say we love this place. For the most part it is dirty, busy and loud. We checked out kuta as well - and to some up ...
Not much to write home about...
Well the bus here wasnt too bad, managed to get a bit of sleep and eventually found a hotel when we arrived (more exoensive and not as nice as the one in bali) spent yesterday wandering round and went to the cinema in this big shopping mall, then today ...
quiet life
Monday was a quite day. A little rain came in through breakfast, and the sun never quite made it out all day. Despite the dark clouds, we still sat and read by the ocean for most of the day. Gary got a $5.00 massage by one of the ...
watch your step
Saturday was another relaxing day here in Ubud. I had the inspiration to reread the part of "Eat, Pray, Love" where the author spent her time here in Ubud but I did not load the book on my Kindle. I bought a device call Kindle which is ...
Lazy Days at Lake Toba
So after spending an absolutely amazing time in Bukittinggi, it's no surprise that the next place I visited just couldn't compare. I've had absolutely no regrets on where I went on this trip, I wouldn't have done it any other way...except maybe I should ...
Empieza la aventura
Después de una semana de penurias nos largamos de Senggigi en un viaje por el Mar de Flores de 5 días!! Menos mal. Creemos q existe una ley divina q impide disfrutar de 5 semanas seguidas sin contratiempos. De ahí el superresfriado de Meritxell,mi ...
Empieza la aventura...por fin
Después de una semana de penurias nos largamos de Senggigi en un viaje por el Mar de Flores de 5 días!! Menos mal. Creemos q existe una ley divina q impide disfrutar de 5 semanas seguidas sin contratiempos. De ahí el superresfriado de Meritxell,mi ...
Propositioned on Penida
... ; Fortunately I had a sarong with me in my pack, so wrapped that around me (a sarong is mandatory to go into temples in Indonesia). I thought I would be able to sneak in and watch from the back – but no! The gamelan stopped playing, and ...
A full moon and an early morning
... promise of getting there in time for the England game, which was broken about 2 hours later, when they made us change buses (to a local non-aircon one). Of course, we're still in Indonesia, we should've known, plus I'm known for my bad transport mojo. ...
Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta
This stately national mosque, Southeast Asia's largest, is positioned on the northeast corner of Merdeka Square. About 90 percent of the Indonesian people are Muslims. Amplified chanting from the Istiqlal minaret, echoed by the hundreds of other smaller ...
Bali
I flew into Denpasar about midday and paid the $25 for the 30 day visa. There are no public bus sevices into the airport so the taxis have a monopoly. You have to walk out of the airport complex to the main road and catch a bus from ...
If I was Brad Pitt I would be jealous...
As breakfast was rather expensive at the hotel, we got a taxi in the morning back into central Jakarta where we found Cinnamon and Coffee. We were starving when we got there so had hot chocolate croissants which were delicious. We then looked ...
Sonnenaufgang beim Mt. Bromo
Nachdem wir am 4. Juli morgens per Minibus von Yogyakarta in Richtung Mt. Bromo losfuhren, hatten wir noch keine Ahnung das wir die naechsten 2 Tage viel Geduld aufbringen muessen.... :) Aber der Reihe nach.... Um 8 Uhr wurden wir beim Hotel abgeholt und ...