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Java Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Java, Indonesia
Eat Pray Love and Blabber
... manhood." Pretty strong stuff from the missus. WW fell asleep on a ferry and my curiosity was too great. I read the Indonesia section, about 1/3 of the book. For young, unmarried men who have not yet learned this, women's brains work differently ...
Lost in Jakarta
So I arrived into Jakarta expecting to find a sprawling metropolis which doesn't have much to see and is very hard to navigate. After spending just 1 night and 2 days here I can't say that my expectations weren't correct. Arriving in the ...
A long bus haul
... a meal. The trip was about 8 hours. Interesting ride from one side of the island to the other. We find Java quite different from Bali. The houses here are more like ones you would find in older style houses in Australia (like the ...
goodbyes and Borobodur
... to town, canceling my afternoon pool time. For the night time entertainment I was off to see local dance show again. Big in Indonesia are the traditional dance shows. A ballet where the Queen was kidnapped by a god and taken to his kingdom in the sky ...
Hard act to follow...
... stolen. The city is full of skeletons of half finished skyscrapers, boarded off and left alone after the economic difficulties in Indonesia peaked last decade. Business is going strong her now though, and for every building left unfinished there is a new ...
Visiting The 2nd Largest Hindu Temple In The World
... one of the sites which I feel is the most comprehensive as well as accurate based on my research with the National Archives of Indonesia as well a the first book written on this temple by a French Archaeologist who was the main man involved in ...
Dzien 9 Przylot do Yogyakarty
Lot z Jakarty do Yogya trwa godzine. O 7:00 miejscowe lotnisko wita nas wilgocia i ukropem. Odbieramy bagaze i zaczynamy przeprawe z taksiarzami. W koncu ustalamy cene na 50k IDR i jedziemy szukac hotelu. Okazuje sie to nielatwym, bo to piatek i pelno ...
Brunei and our first few days in Indonesia
... party at mine. (More pictures in follow on facebook) We flew to Surabaya on 9th and caught a 5hr train to Yogyakarta in central Java. The region is dominated by paddy and the trains are fast, clean, cool and efficient (if you travel first class that is!) ...
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 ...
Solo et mon pote Budi
... de bouffees d’air ! Deux jours dans cette ville, bien suffisant mais reposant… etape suivante, le Gunung Bromo, un des volcans encore actif de Java ! Derniere etape javanaise avant Bali et les retrouvailles avec la moitie de la famille ...
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
... base of Kawah 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 ...
A little city time
So after discovering FM7 had a fantastic pool complex & a leisurely morning we braved the traffic to downtown Jakarta; I had read many horror stories about the traffic so we left it until lunchtime & it was OK - 25k in 50'ish minutes & only ...
Mc Donalds For Dinner In Semarang For A Change
... the journey too us 4 hours. This additional delay was contributed by the heavy flow of lorries which it seems in Indonesia, start their journey after 6 pm when it is dark. The interesting thing I observed about heavy lorries here is that unlike ...
In the City
We met Renee in Jakarta, so nice to see her! We went to Plaza Indonesia for a look around the shops, laura and i are completely sick for the cloths we brought with us, so on a mission to find something new haha. Went to the National Monument, it was a ...
Singapore to Bali
Few days ago, i was wondering if i should go home or go to the beach somewhere for a week before heading back to Canada. Surfing all day on the net, i finaly found a cheap flight to Bali for 100 cdn round trip! 2 weeks to enjoy the best that Bali has to ...
plateau de Dieng
Ca y es me voilà parti pour un village paumé à 2000m d'altitude ! Après 10h de transport avec un grand nombre de bus me voilà arrivé dans ce village avec comme consolation de magnifiques paysages en chemin. Petit rencontre avec un guide ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
... wurden wir beim Hotel abgeholt und mit weiteren 6 Touristen ( je 2 aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und England) gings los Richtung Ost-Java. Die Fahrt begann ziemlich ruhig, wir hatten ja schon etwas Zeit uns an den Fahrstil hier zu gewohnen. Wir lernten von ...
Indonesian Adventures
... relief to us. We spent the night in a Singapore Hotel before catching an early morning flight to Jakarta, Indonesia on the island of Central Java. We then spent 6 hours or so in the Jakarta airport before meeting the 4 other SALTers serving ...
Solo
... that they don’t know anything about the people who built it and the style is nothing like any of the other styles used in Indonesia. It definitely had an air of mystery and wonder to it as I wondered through the strange murals up to the foot of what ...
Horseriding on top of a volcano
... y me deje llevar, supongo que porque era mas pequenyito que Bernie, y me enamore, claro de este animal.... De ahi nos fuimos en bus, no me acuerdo, pero supongo todo el dia en autobus hasta la punta este de Java para cruzar a Bali..... Hasta ...
Bodhidharma and The Shaolin Way of Life In Java
... is the Mahaguru that all Kung Fu students around the world pray to in monasteries. I wonder how this teachings spread to Indonesia and when exactly. I wanted to enquire more but the monastery was locked and I was told that the monks usually start ...
Tiring City Life
Nach einer kurzen Nacht (aufstehen um 5.30) in einem maessigen Hotel haben wir denn Zug nach Yogjakarta genommen. Zugfahrt wieder sehr angenehm, aber auch sehr lang (7.5h). Landschaft wieder wahnsinnig schoen! In Yogjakarta dann same procedure as ...