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Indonesia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Indonesia
Feed them meat
This is a top pick! Well, I didn't get to feed anyone to a rampant dragon during our visit which was a real shame - there were plenty of loud and large Americans about yesterday that were perfect candidates for a quick shove resulting in a bloody sacrifice. Unfortunately ...
Reluctant Return to Civilization
This is a top pick! ... . We were dropped at the hotel we'd requested, which was much more expensive than we would have liked (all prices up in Indonesia, after all), but there was nowhere else for us to go and the staff was friendly enough. We settled in. ...
A little dancing, a little protesting
This is a top pick! Yogyakarta is pronounced Jogjakarta, and that's how it's spelled in Indonesia. I have no idea why we spell it with a Y. It's also the cultural capital of Java, and an excellent jumping off point for Borobudur. Our excursions in Yogya ...
Day trip to Jimbaran and Uluwatu Temple
This is a top pick! Today we got a car/driver and headed south to the Uluwatu temple and then on the way back we stopped in Jimbaran Beach for dinner on the beach, literally. There are a couple dozen seafood restaurants in a row, and though they have indoor seating, ...
It's who you know and where you go...
This is a top pick! ... -appreciated place, rich with culture and natural wonder, fantastic people and a progressive attitude not found in the rest of Indonesia. I think it's no wonder that a percentage of Australians from many walks of life have made it our favourite overseas ...
Bali Fever
This is a top pick! ... of my own. It is strange that with all the recent media hype around bird flu we thought very carefully about coming to Indonesia, even though the human impact has so far been very slight. Over 20,00 people have contracted Dengue fever in Indonesia so ...
Christians in Bali
This is a top pick! ... congregation was about 600 strong, remaining steady, if not growing a bit. Marcus also explained the heirarchy of the church Indonesia and how the cathedral had been built in 1959. I was pleasantly surprised when Marcus volunteered to drive me to ...
Our Encounter with the Local Constabulary
This is a top pick! ... They have been friends ever since and Renate flew to Indonesia to meet up with us. She and Elenka wanted to see how Indonesia and its wonderful inhabitants might have changed after almost a quarter of a century. Back then, leaving Kuta for the ...
A lot of new experiences...
This is a top pick! (Attached pics taken around Ubud with a disposable camera and then scanned in.) Introducing a special new Executive Summary feature, for those who are Cash Rich, Time Poor and for those with teeny attention spans... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Paul and I ...
Gili Trawangan - Day 176-179
This is a top pick! ... book something, wouldn't have left the island otherwise. Could have easily stayed here until my visa ran out. The Gili's and Indonesia in general have been invaded by the French. So many French travellers and holiday makers in the country at the ...
Local Beach Day
This is a top pick! One day, the usually empty beaches were full of locals from Aceh on a day trip. It was fun to watch everyone have such a great time, but it was also interesting to see women in traditional Muslim clothing playing in the water. As Westerners, we ...
Diving Pulau Weh
This is a top pick! Diving was a phenomenal experience. I'll come back and write more about it later. For now, I'm just uploading some pics. I don't have an underwater camera, so I got these from a woman on our dive. I hate posting pics that aren't mine, but this is a rare ...
I almost missed this!
This is a top pick! ... Mongolia's 3-0 or not. I guess Mongolia is still in the lead due to the fact that I scored an away win against Indonesia, answers on a postcard! While checking my emails the evening before I was leaving I found an email from Air Asia. Basically they'd ...
USS Liberty
This is a top pick! As someone who has done a few dives over the years, there was one site I really wanted to dive, and this was the USS Liberty. Basically, a supply ship that was torpedoed by the Japanese during WW2 and then beached in Tulamben. It was left there for ...
Off for the Weekend to the beach!
This is a top pick! So my new friend Jenny (originally from NY, but she's been here in Bali since 2002) invited me to go to the beach with her family this weekend. Her husband Harris (pronounced more like Tyrese), her gorgeous 4 year-old son Gabriel, and surprise ...
Pradha Guest House
This is a top pick! So seeing as I have made the Pradha Guesthouse my home for 3 weeks (Feb 18- March 12) and Bali is hurting for tourists, and the staff has become my family, and they asked me nicely everyday to post pictures so that all my friends in America will come to ...
Monkeys everywhere!
This is a top pick! Monkeys on my head, monkeys opening my bag, reaching down my shirt, monkeys sitting on my lap! That was how I spent my day. I went to the Monkey Forest (and I'm going back again tomorrow to do it again because I loved it so much). In ...
Did you see the monkey fish?
This is a top pick! ... to prayer followed by roosters, but we managed alright. Eventually we rolled out of bed for breakfast (which is free in Indonesia - score!): a delicious banana pancake-crepe and cup of coffee. This took about two hours due to the fact that we ...
Not doing much at the moment
This is a top pick! I was up early and away from Kuta at 6am, quite glad to be leaving under the circumstances. It'd take almost 12 hours to get to Gili Trawangan so I thought it best to start the day off by sleeping in the bus as best I could. That was until was rounded a ...
Off to Singapore tomorrow
This is a top pick! Tomorrow I am taking an evening flight up to Singapore. I've been reading up on the city/country/state (who knew it was all three?) today, and I expect that I'll stay there about 5 days. After that I'll head up to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...
Kalabahi madness
This is a top pick! ... , so at least a hangover isn't magnifying the whole sound issue. Why so considering this is a pretty remote and sleepy part of Indonesia? Well, the 4th Alor Expo is happening right now so the population has swelled and a bunch of band and club music has ...
Diving in the Komodos Again
This is a top pick! Sometimes your number comes up, and for me, it finally happened when we won a trip to the Komodo Islands with World Wide Dive and Sail. We had been here before so I am not going to bore you with the details about how we got the trip or an hour by hour ...
Bali Farmers Market
This is a top pick! One morning I got up early and visited the Farmers Market in Ubud, and this is what think I thought I ...
Still chilling in Kuta
This is a top pick! I haven't uploaded pics in 2 weeks, sorry about that. I have some great shots from Lovina Beach, the sunsets there are unreal, and also some cools pics from the EIGHT scuba dives I did there. I even got the disposable underwater camera ...
Last day in Ubud - More Monkeys!
This is a top pick! ... we'll all hang out for Easter weekend in Kuta. After that, who knows? Maybe I'll use my last two weeks in Indonesia to bounce up the islands and head toward Thailand island hopping. It might be cheaper, and more fun!, than a flight up ...
Ceremony in the Ubud Temple
This is a top pick! So, this is not a tourist thing. I was given specific instructions on how to dress and act in order to attend a ceremony in the Village Temple in Ubud. There are ceremonies all the time, I think sort of like how Christians and Jews visit ...
Tourist central!
This is a top pick! I've been here 5 days now, staying at the Contiki Resort- probably the most luxurious place I've stayed in, and makes a welcome change from all the $5 a night guesthouses. I've been mostly relaxing by the beach and pool here, not doing too much ...
Would you like an egg in your coke?
This is a top pick! Denpasar is supposedly the Bali transport hub, but it seems that the only reason to go there is if you can't get a ticket for where you want to go from somewhere else. Transport on the island is a big easy network. But we were about to go to ...
Sandals and strap marks
This is a top pick! ... sudden Andrew wasn’t feeling very well, he decided that it was the garlic mayonnaise this time so we just went to Warung Indonesia again across from the hut and had some rice. We got talking to a lovely guy called Harry from Liverpool who had ...
Missioning Mt Bromo
This is a top pick! Some wise person (probably dad) once said, "All good things come to those that wait." Not long after he probably added the qualifier "nothing ventured, nothing gained". Together they mean patience and hard work will eventually pay dividends. When you ...