Ciputra Hotel Jakarta

... lalu ia menuju ke arah suara itu. Alangkah terkejutnya, bahwa suara itu ialah suara air memancar dari dalam tanah dengan derasnya. Air itu adalah air Zam-zam. dari situlah kemudian Siti Hajar minum dan kembali dapat menyusui Ismail.<br style=""> <br style=""> <br><br> Air Zam-zam berasal dari mata air Zamzam yang terletak di bawah tanah, diperkirakan sekitar 20 meter di sebelah Tenggara Ka'bah. Mata air atau Sumur ini mengeluarkan Air Zam-zam tanpa henti ...

... except immigration, where we are harrased because we don't have an exit flight out of Indo yet (planned to book later from Bali) and we only have a 7 day visa. Luckily the rookie immigration officer screwed up and stamped my Visa without proof of my departure ticket but caught Chris. At this point I think the woke up the President of Indo to stamp Chris's Visa because they stamped mine and they knew that the airline ticket counters were not ...

... Rp. 550.000,- * Respect &amp; fun ...

... rupiah ( a little less than US $4) at the end of yesterday's wanders. It is said that reflexology affects other parts of the part of the body. I found it made my eyelids impossible to stay open. Pure heaven. Then went back to the hotel and slept like a baby. Left the USB cords back in the hotel, so photo uploading will have to wait. Well, Barack's in the White House and Rod's on his way to the Big House. Fewer worries back home. Cool.

... area was still lively enough, there were a few bars still open and a good few people around. We found another place twice as expensive but so much better. Lydia wouldn't have slept in the other place especially after seeing a big cockroach crawl under the door next to ours when we went back to pick up our bags. We told the receptionist that it was our first night in Asia and we needed a place with air conditioning! The next morning we were hoping ...

So after the reality of Cianjur it was off to Jakarta. Yudi had to go to the airport to pick up the next batch of homestayers, so rather than stay another night and deal with the hassle of a bus ride and unimaginably crammed house, I decided to go with him, and sleep in the airport, as my flight left the next day at 4pm. That was a very dumb thing to do. First of all, the airport in Jakarta is not lovely or comfortable ...

... a vague trajectory, a desire to explore, and not much else. maybe i went to the wrong places in thailand, but it was cambodia that really spoke to me. after weeding through scam after scam in thailand, cambodia was a welcome breath of fresh air. Despite its long often dark history of colonialism, dictatorship and genocide, the people were lovely. i went by land over the thai border, quite an experience itself dealing with corrupt border officials and an unpaved road on ...

... one point we spotted a family of monkeys so we stopped to watch them swinging through the tree-tops above us. We finished up the first day at a homestay set in the side of the mountain overlooking the beautiful Lake Maninjau . The sunset over the lake was something else, and it made pulling the leeches out of our feet when we stopped that much easier to bare! The night ended with a bit of 'Sinatra in Sumatra ' as I introduced the Indonesians to Frank over a few ...

... uit natuurlijk... NIeuw irritatiepunt...de toiletten, waar je ook komt, ookal is het een 5sterren restaurant, de toiletten zijn goor, de vrouwen hangen boven de bril dus spetteren overal of ze gaan met hun schoenen op de toilet bril hurken...heel bizar! Dat is dus altijd een groete verassing en avontuur... Oh, en mn telefoon is gejat uit mn tas in een restaurant, stom, soms heb je een gevoel dat het niet klopt, maar ben je net een seconde te laat...en ja, weg!! dus binnenkort een nieuw nummer...

I'll put the location for this one from Indo, even though im back in Pohnpei now....just for a little variation on the neat little map thingy. Hasn't been TOO much of that for the last couple of years (well, at least below the normal level of travel).... Back after a great 26 days in the glorious archepeligo of Indonesia...my third time to Bali, but first to the island of Java and the island of Lombok. A quick breakdown for those interested on the details....if not, check out the pics ...