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Jakarta and out
... makes you think about what you have.
We caught a train and passed through the constant suburbs before arriving in the hectic market centre of Bogor. It is so different to the commercialism and cleanliness of Singapore! It had started to rain but as we had taken a train for an hour we headed for the Botanical Garden anyway but before long a huge thunder storm hit. It didn't just rain ...
Jakarta – Indonesien lässt grüßen!!!
... nächsten Tag fuhren wir für 25.000IDR mit einem Banjaj (motorisierte Rikscha) zur Gambir Stasiun & holten unsere Zugtickets für den nächsten Morgen nach Yogyakarta (510.000IDR für 2 Personen, 1.Klasse). Auf der Fahrt mit dem Banjaj bestätigte sich das, was wir bei Nacht schon feststellten: Jakarta ist mit Abstand die bisher dreckigste, versmogteste, überbevölkerteste Stadt in Asien, die wir bisher gesehen haben! Hier investiert die Regierung scheinbar gar ...
Smog, Colourful Shadow Puppets and a Quite Drink
... than the train station. Ended up getting dropped off fairly close but took me a while to orient myself from where I was dropped off. Seems like this street has lots of shops and lots of people selling things on the street.
At one point had someone come up to me, say sorry mister and act as if they were wiping something off my leg. Rather than stop I kept walking and ignored them since I was pretty sure it was just an attempt to distract me in order for them or a ...
Home Sweet Home
... as they embrace me. I smile gladly at them as I return their hugs. I check in my luggage and head through immigration and wave the last time to my grandparents. I walk to my gate and wait patiently forr my flight to be called. I'm finally going home!!!
Oh...there it is....Perth here I ...
First day in dirty Jakarta
... of my pocket. The worrying thing was that I didn’t even beep going through the metal detector, so it got me wondering if it was even working. Ah well.
The flight took off and I enjoyed my last Lion Air flight in the comfort of an exit row seat. It really made a world of difference because the last Lion flight were some of the smallest seats I’d ever been in. The flight was only one hour long, but at least I ...



