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Java Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Java, Indonesia
Mount Bromo and a hideous voyage
I got up bleary-eyed and rather light-headed after just over three hours' sleep at 1am. I threw on my clothes and went to wait in the lobby to be picked up by the tour mini bus. At 1.45am, 30 minutes late, a guy arrived from the company and I got into ...
Safe in Bandung
Friends, I arrived in Bandung last night (about 4 hours outside of Jakarta) in a blur of excitment, anxiety and sweat! The man who drove me from Jakarta to Bandung spoke no English, but was very kind. After running out of hand gestures, he looked at ...
A great big steaming hole
Another bus journey brush with death landed us in Probollingo for the night as it arrived too late to go to the foot of the volcano. Honestly, these bus journey's are unlike any we have ever taken. We actually braced ourselves to crash this time and ...
Bahasa Indonesia
... e outros peões. Na Indonésia existem cerca de 700 linguagens, locais, tribais, mas a linguagem “geral”, bahasa indonesia (que, traduzido significa literalmente “linguagem indonésia”) é falada por todos. Não há tons, não ...
So this is where all the tourists are...
So in the space of a few days we've had a 10 hour train journey, a 4.30am start, and now a 10 hour bus journey followed bt a 3.00am start!! (And we're supposed to be on holiday...!) But, my word, it was worth it...... Arrived at night so couldn't see ...
Day 123: Dieng Plateau and Borobudur
... . Rice farmers wade thigh-deep into waterlogged paddy fields to replant rice grass. Dieng Plateau is the Cameron Highlands of Java, a cool retreat at higher altitude, with tea plantations and market gardens, growing mostly potatoes and cabbage, but with ...
It's pronounced 'Jogja'
... ' fear and so we were forced to whip out the laptop at the check-in counter and book the first ticket out of Indonesia we could find. Suddenly being in Jakarta in two weeks time was on our agenda. We checked into Prambanan guesthouse, a ...
good weather, 99% certain, he said
... get up there sort of grumbling at each other and finding it hard to understand how the muslim community get up at 4.30am every day (Java is something like 75% muslim), it was pretty good -despite the clouds. We are destined to not see the sun rise or set ...
Premier jour a Jakarta
Bon ben comme j'ai pas dormi, que je suis malade comme un chien et que j'ai la chiasse, qu'il pleut dehors, ben je fais rien! Rien de rien. J'ecris un peu mon blog, je lis Lonely Planet, je mate des series, je sais je devrais etudier mon encyclopedie ...