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Java Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Java, Indonesia
Bromo
The four of us took a bus to to Mount Bromo (ignore the city description at the top of this entry, Bromo isn't on the map!?) and what a terrifying ride that was! All started off well, with great scenic views but as we ascended higher up the mountain, ...
Jakarta
Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous sommes maintenant a Yogyakarta. Nous avons prit l'avion comme prevue. Un vol o.k. mais comme toujours je mordais le banc d'en face. Rejean comme toujours dormait ou etait poigne dans son livre. 2h15 ...
Lodging Review-Metro Guest House
... at 12:15, followed by a cannon ball contest and feigned loud arguing. It is good that an emerging middle class in Indonesia can afford leisure travel and accommodation at this price. WM would not stay at Metro Guest House again because, at this ...
Borobudur et ses environs
Suite logique de la visite, je m'attaque maintenant à l’un des plus importants temples bouddhistes du sud-ouest asiatique. 2 millions de blocs de pierres composent Borobudur ! Le tout encerclé de rizière, de montagne et de quelques ...
A couple of days in Jo
... back to narrow, pot-holed, two lanes, even though the traffice is very heavy. Because there are very few train lines in Indonesia, most transport of goods is by road, so there is a lot of traffic and lots of trucks. The main load seems ...
Rice Paddies galore
March 24 Today we woke up early and had breakfast at the hotel before heading to the train station. We had an 8:45am train to Yogyakarta that would take about 8 hours. We are flying in between all our other cities so Dan wanted to make sure we had a ...
Facebook, Justin beiber & the Indonesian youth
My first day at Yudi's saw myself and Nick explore the local recycling plant (Yudi's brother runs the operation, one of many across indonesian that recycles plastics) and then head on the back of our motorbike escorts to one of the local schools where ...
Bye Bye sweet Bali / fotos :)
Al fin hemos dado con una buena conexion a internet para poder compartir algunas imagenes de Bali con ustedes, veran las hermosas plantaciones de arroz en terrazas (en el pueblito de Sidemen y tambien de los alrededores de Tirta Gangga), las plantaciones ...
A bit of the family past
Heading for Indonesia today! After getting up and packing our stuff we headed for the tube back to Changi Airport. After checking in Stu fancied some dim sum so had some lunch before our flight. On the way to the gate we saw the free foot massage machines ...
Bubbling Geysers and Volcano Craters!
... to Lesley (she headed back to the U.S.) and took a three-hour train ride to Bandung, a relatively large city in Java. The train snaked its way through mountains filled with cascading rice paddies reminiscent of northern Vietnam and past little villages ...
Moto to Beach Today
Rented a moto for 50,000 rp today. Manual was 30,000, but I splurged for the simplicity of a motorized bicycle. Surf was wild--warning signs "Unsafe to Swim" everywhere. I know my friend Randy Dominic will call this little Honda a ...
Jeans Street
We can no longer afford to be in the Savoy but we still need to be in Bandung so we are moving to a hostel across town. It's not cheap but in comparison to here it's pence. You often hear conflicting opinions about cities/countrys but with Jakarta all ...
Jogja !
Apres des heures de train interminables par une chaleur et une moiteur qui m’ont fait dormir les 3/4 du trajet… me voici enfin a Yogyajakarta, enfin, Jogja comme on dit ici. Lorsqu’on arrive a depacer la Malioboro Street, artere ...
Rice, Tea & Cheese & Chocolate Pancakes...
Our ever-expanding little group of backpackers now includes an American couple, Owen and Jenai and a young german girl, Helena. The last few days have been a cramming session of Bahasa Indonesian, with our teacher Jamal (an adorably cute & ...
Semarang
... other for free in their private homes. I first tried this sort of hospitality in Semarang, a mayor city on the north coast of Java where Sony, a couch surf activist upon my travel ad had repeatedly invited me to stay with him for a few days at his ...
lies and general dishonesty
... industry people of the world that are just complete assholes. heres my list of worst tourist industry countries. no specific order Guatemala costa rica Peru Indonesia Thailand Now just to repeat i love the locals, Hate the tourist ...
Indonesia 2 - 0 The Philippines
... a tall concrete tower and not much else! The high court and palace were close by. In the evening we watched some football. Indonesia were playing the 2nd leg of the Asian Cup Semi-Final against The Philippines. There quite a lot of people on the street ...
Yogyakarta Day 118 (Sept 15th)
... and just to have a wonder and maybe learn something, become cultured (yeah right!). Here I met Carlos (from Chile) and Rolly (from Indonesia), both spoke good english and invited me to join them to go to the large market. So I said yes. After walking ...
Jakarta, baby, Jakarta
... Mall is no ordinary mall (Sade should write a song about it). It is gargantuan and honestly, a Vegas style attraction, where Indonesia's wealthy (in Ferraris, Bimmers, Benz's, Bentleys, etc.) came to be seen and be awed. Eight floors of retail ...
And so it begins...
Well, we made it to Indonesia! Only took us 17 hours in the air, 3 in the dismal Taipei airport, 1 excruciating long hour in the immigration line and to top it off, another hour spent in a "taxi" with a lying, cheating and sneaky driver, who ...
And now, around Jogja
Day 3 in Yogya: Had a good day today, seeing the sights of the city of Yogya. We went to the Sultan's Palace, which is now used official ceremonies. They still have a Sultan, number 11, and he has five daughters. When he dies, the younger ...
Temples and trees
... 20000 orchid species ? Me neither ! There was also a cool zoological museum with most of the animals you can see in Indonesia. They were all very dead but it was nice to see a little komodo dragon again (« varan »), monkeys, ...
Der Ausbruch des Merapi
Jetzt wurde es richtig heiss! Am Tag der Abreise brach der Vulkan Merapi aus! So etwas einmal Live und nicht im Fernsehen zu erleben, war eine etwas andere Erfahrung. In Gefahr war ich aber zum Glueck nie! Der Ascheregen auf Yogyakarta kam erste einige ...
Bali
... the best though, because it was really cloudy anyway, and the visibility would have been terrible. Instead, i left a day early towards East Java. I did a tour of Mt. Bromo instead. By chance, there is a major ceremony once a year - for only one day - ...
Journey across Java - first stop Gunung Bromo
So the next morning we were picked up at 8am as we were starting our travel across Java. We arrived at the bus first and gradually the rest of the group arrived and we all piled in. Within about a minute we all realised that our air-con bus wasn't so ...
Indonesia, boleh!
... slightly, and he began to pass cars, bikes and other buses more and more frequently. Let me divulge that all roads in Indonesia have one lane coming, one lane going, and three vehicles and a family of 4 on a motorbike abreast of each other at any ...
Java, the land of volcanoes and nothing else!
... off on what turned out to be a 13 hour bus and boat journey all of the way to Bali. Despite loving the volcanoes in Java there wasn't’t really much more to like about the place, and as we waved the island farewell we both agreed that we ...