Garden Surabaya

... lift we found colleagues and friends assembled with copious amounts of food and drink....and more presents!<br>It was a truly memorable evening and our thanks to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.................but especially to Viki for putting the whole thing together ....you're a star! (and to Luke for letting me stay till the end.......cheers mate!) Ex-pats rock!

Today is my last day in Surabaya, I have purchased my train ticket to Semarang. Prices are still up and I had to pay for the full fare to Jakarta. The ticket for executive class from Surabaya to Jakarta is 440,000. I am told that the prices will be going down on October 4th!!!

... The Harbor - China town, is not worth it in the morning - Monument Tugu Pahlawan (combined with a market which is surrounding this place, very cheap) - Shopping Mall, 'Surabaya Plaza' very expensive but very, very big.  After this we went back to the Airport 'Juanda International' and flew back with Valuair

... Villages and Temples of Cambodia on a Dirt Bike 3) Siem Reap, Cambodia: Wandering Around the Vast Temples and Plains of Angkor 4) Thassouang, Lao: Living With an Elephant and Experiencing Lao Village Life 5) Similan Islands, Thailand: Living on a Boat and Diving with the Woman I Love Most Memorable Days of Asia 1) Sikkim, India: First Day of Monastery ...

... plus ni avancer ni reculer. Une chance, le brave Rejean, a pris la situation en main. En fait il a du me pousser pour que je continue. C'etait vraiment pas drole. J'ai eu vraiment la frousse. Sur la crete a 4 pattes, Rejean a bien rigoler dans mon dos parce-que je ne pouvais plus me relever meme si le sentier est revenue a presque normal. Nous avons pris un repos pour regarder le couchee du soleil sur le pourtour du grand cratere. Nous avons refait le 8 km pour revenir, il ...

... river survey and they are also very into the environment and resources etc. and our head has a stake in an importation business in Switzerland and was interested in pricing the product. So eventually after sweltering in an un-airconditioned room with no fan, we set out walking through the village(we have got used to the stares and waves and "hello mister") to the river where an ancient long canoe-like boat awaited us. It had an ...

It seems to be becoming a bit of a habit - this jetting off to paradise ten minutes after the students have left the classroom on a Friday evening! Yes, we went to Bali again this weekend - but at least we stayed in a different hotel and ate in a couple of different restaurants (although Nomad in Ubud and the Beach Cafe in Sanur are firm favourites). Unfortunately, I woke on Saturday morning with a nasty skin reaction (not ...

... bali strait to java went by without us even getting off the bus. delirious, we were dumped, sometime between 4 and 5 am, not at the bus depot, which i guess we were supposed to have cleared with the driver beforehand, but at a random travel agency. the very place we fell victim to our own early morning thickheadedness. hours too late, as we re-read in LP, we learned that this precise scenario of being dropped off at random, over-charging travel agencies is a common trap set for ...

... I sat down watching the sky melting. Eventually, darkness has slowly descended on the plateau below and the hills have become miniature shadows in the distant. I saw the steady stream white smoke from the bottom. It's as if God was puffing on his pipe. I continued to circle the mouth of the crater and ended up where I started. To be so close to nature's wonder such as this is breathtaking. I remembered a song by Incubus, "Wish you were here." P.s. I ...

... a hankering for a little something so we headed out to find the one reasonable-sounding restaurant in town. We ordered asparagus and crab soup and stir-fried vegetables, both of which tasted fine, but the texture of the soup, this being a Chinese-oriented restaurant, was so gloopy it was like pure egg white. Still, it filled a (small) hole. Then it was back to the hotel for a bit more reading and bed to dream about the volcano we were going to see the next day. (R)