Cartimor Homestay Jember

... eat it again.<br><br>The next day we were on our journey to the Ijen Plateau. We hired an expensive private car to take us there as it was really our only option. We left at 4 a.m. and arrived at 7 a.m. We didn't think that the distance should take 3 hours, but we were surely wrong. The roads were the worst that we had ever seen. If we had the endurance, we could have walked faster than the car was moving. Needless to say, we had stiff necks before our hike ...

... and ended up spending two. We found a clean, good value hotel with a great little restaurant half a block away. But, best of all, we spent a day in your average, mid-sized Indonesian town, full of friendly people and a window into the daily life of the Indonesians who call this place home.<br><br>Enjoy!<br><br>Until next time,<br>Jon and Liz<br>

The next several hours were spent in transit. We went back to Probolinggo, and then took a bus with the same company to Ijen. The road for most of the journey was dire; the road was littered with pot holes for the parts that had tarmac, and those that didn't were even worse! The hotel was very nice considering what have stayed in so far in Indonesia, and came with something ...

We took the bus for an entire day (about 10 hours) to Gunung Bromo. We arrived at about 8pm after driving in the dark up lots of wiggly mountain roads for about an hour and a half. We had some amazing views of the stars. Because it was dark, we couldn't see, but we knew we must be pretty high up because it was cold, so on arrival we put on all our jackets and jumpers that we hardly wear these days. We went for dinner and actually saw Mulled Wine on the menu ...

Hullo my darlings, Sorry have been absent for awhile but have been a busy, little, bee. I traveled to Java for a quick weekend to check out the conditions for a camp being run in the next couple of weeks. It was amazing... You wouldn't think that such a tiny gap of water could affect such a transformation, but then again France and the UK... Java is clearly poorer, there is less extravagance and the people are a little less friendly. There are almost no temples anywhere, (the ...

Java - Mt Bromo Java rests along a portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and is endowed with the wonder and fury of volcanoes, earthquakes and hydrothermal activity. Take a peek at our photographs attached to get a feel for Mount Bromo and surrounding peaks. Indonesians put a lot of faith and superstition into their volcanoes, to the extent that heads of state will travel to renowned peaks to ask for a rosy future. Maybe that is what Liverpool FC ...

Dean checked out a day before me to go to stay in a hostel near the buddist monument, Borabodur, I stayed in our lovely hostel and watched DVDs while Dean slept in a dorm with rats! Still his photos are worth it cos he had all day there and I did a tour and only got 2 hrs to see it all. Next stop Solo where we went on a cool bike tour which was the best thing we did on Java, we cycled round all the villages outside the ...

After an 11-hour minibus trek across the paddy fields of East Java, Julie and I are based at the Cemora Indah Hotel, a shabby place conveniently perched on the edge of the Tengger caldera. The view from here stretches across a 10km-wide crater to the collapsed, smouldering volcano, Bromo,(2392m) and minor volcanic peaks, Kursi (2581m) and Batok (2440m). Beyond, yet out of view is Java's highest mountain and one its mist active ...

On quitte Jogja avec un tour organise, histoire pour une fois d'economiser du temps et de l'argent. Longue journee de bus jusqu'au mont Bromo, d'ou l'on peut voir parait-il un epoustouflant lever de soleil. Vu qu'il pleut depuis 3 jours non-stop, on est peu confiants de voir quelque chose... On arrive vers 22h00 a un petit village a 5km environ du mont. Un gars tente deseperement ...

A short bus ride this morning and we arrived in Ubud. After lunch we all decided to have a quiet afternoon and just lounged in the pool before going for a walk up the main road to see what the local shops had to offer. That night we had an early dinner so that we could go and watch a Balinese dancing performance. After that we headed to a local bar and we met ...