Grand Tropic
Travel Blogs from Jakarta
Traffic jams,Museums and Monuments.
... from before European occupation and some great exhibits of textiles and puppetry. Upstairs were the two treasure rooms with wonderful pieces in beaten gold including jewellery, sword hilts and crowns..There was a group of young school children , typically rushing around with their answer sheets who were keen to practice their "Good Morning" on me.
From here we drove around the main part of the civic section with the President's palace and other beautiful government buildings ...
Outdoor Bar in central Jakarta,Cheap drinks
... mix of bailey's , whiskey,vodka etc etc. my favourite is the bright blue shot.
more about this place , its located on Jalan Wahid Hasyim,Sarinah... not far from Jalan Jaksa.
it's located between 2 buildings , the one i can remember says "BCA" thats a bank btw...
anyways , sorry for my bad command of english
is this somekind of a journal or what? i dont know , i just feel like writting about my trip
cheers
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Crossing the Street in Jakarta
... which pretty much the most intense train ride I've had in my life. I remember buying the ticket and in the back of my mind, I wondered if this was a good idea. The ticket said Economi, which my friend Travis in LA told me to never take because he took it and it was the gnarliest train ride he'd ever taken. I was about to find out what he meant really fast. While waiting for the train, we observed a sign which graphically depicted all the activities that ...
Backpacker to Singapore Part 1 the journey...
... jam 05.00 ada penerbangan Air Asia ke penang, jadi penumpang mulai banyk berdatangan dan gerusah gerusuh antri untuk boarding dan proses imigrasi, (maaf saya tidak sempat foto karena kebawa suasana gerusah gerusuh atau terburu" karena antrian nya panjag sekali). jam 04.00 penumpang yg ke penang masih antri panjang untuk imigrasi disaat bersamaan ada pengumuman penumpang dipersilahkas masuk ek ruang tunggu, sampai akhirnya penumpang ke penang dipersilahkanantri secara ...
Speaking Too Soon
... against it. We spent a significant portion of the rest of the night on the internet and sorting things out, we moved our flight home to May 5th. STA are real *****, they advertise the changing fee as £75 but neglect to mention the £45 admin fee. If it can be avoided I don't intend to ever use them again.
Indonesia on the whole has been a triumph, I don't know if my expectations were low after Borneo but most of where we visited and what we ...
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