Ciputat 109 Boarding House Jakarta

... the lonely planet says and we're not really interested in going to see monuments or museums so there not many options left if you're trying to do things on the cheap. It's difficult to get round without getting a taxi (which aren't that expensive to be fair) and lots of the malls and other thing seem to be a good few miles away from where we're staying. Thats why on our last day, as I'm typing this, we're sat in Starbucks in an air-conditioned shopping mall ...

... Then we always go with friends to Cafe Batavia, a colonial restaurant / cafe in the Kota (it's in every guide book) and it is okay, reasonable food, not el cheapo, but worth going to get the feeling of old colonial times. A small square with all kinds of small museums etc. Further on is Kelapa Sunda, interesting boats. a nice little trip is to take a small boat around and go to the fish market (pasar ikan), The kampong is an interesting ...

... road to the hotel was a twisted road lined with very rough looking characters, mostly with motorcycles. I was so hungry that I was ready to venture on to these streets to locate some food, but Lisa pleaded that this was insane, so we went to bed hungry. Lisa said that the prayers went on through loud speakers until around 4 AM, but I managed to sleep through it without waking up once. Once we got up though, Lisa went looking for some breakfast and was ...

We left our Jakarta's Apt after breakfast time, about 9.00 AM. Since it was a Saturday, the Ciawi-Sukabumi road was pretty congested, and it was just whoever got the guts to drive on the wrong lane was the one who got to overpass the traffic jam, and we were one of them. We took a lunch break near Lido Sukabumi, this was our second time to eat in this restaurant, in the middle of paddy field, called Bumbu Desa. The food & ambience is good & I especially ...

Bogor - i. Kebun Raya - U can see the beauty of plants and Indonesian Presidential Palace from there too. ii. Gunung Salak - it is an volcano. But i got no chance to go to the hill top to see lava (6 hours hiking, too late for me to hike because reaching there at 3pm). Got waterfall at this mountain, but it is a disappointingly small waterfall (maybe due to dried season currently ...

... him to cut it out he let me in We were gladly surprised, the city is very modern, fairly clean, even that it is mainly Muslim, the people are very friendly and open minded, big change from Malaysia. We tour around for a while and took the flight to Bali, this time the people of Air Asia were not very aggressive as far as their policy goes so it went smoothly

... you can't use the standard screwdrivers in OT... Hmm... I thought, quite a problem to remove plates then. I had been very interested to buy on behalf of Mercy. Additionally, I was told that he doesn't sell the implants rather donates to the public. He muttered Amal Jariah. Allah bless him! We then went to the seminar room to discuss 3 tumour cases. We were then asked to present ours but due to some computer malfunction, they couldn't open our files.... Hooray... consultant says let's ...

Out of the need of getting rid from hectic life in the office jungle, me and Ruth escaped to Bali. We invited Dede who currently stay in Perth to join us. With a Karimun and very nice driver, we visited many places which had never been touched in our previous visits to Bali. We visited Dreamland Beach, GWK, Ubud, etc. Enjoy sea food candle light dinner ...

... from their aurborial skyscrapers. I was surprised to find that so many of the plants I had worked with in my years as an interior horticulturalist grew wild and untamed here. All those tropical plants trapped languishing in small pots in dark office corners or marbled boardrooms grow in massive abundance here--I found the shiny dark leaves of the Janet Craig, the tufted heads of marginatas, the fanned leaves of the raphis palm, the yellow ...

Blah, blah, Jakarta. Perhaps it's because I've been in FOUR countries in the past week (including two other huge cities - Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur) but I don't want to be here.

With the addition of daily prayers being blasted throughout the city, I could be anywhere and I want OUT! So, I've already booked a ticket to Yogyakarta in Central Java. I leave tomorrow after ...