Hotel Brongto Yogyakarta

... guide, as we could barely understand them (Indonesians don’t speak great English at all in our experience) but as we walked about there was not one single word written in English, so we found ourselves looking at loads of old artefacts without having a clue what they were or even why we were looking at them. We had another situation similar to Bali, when some guy attempted to appoint himself as our guide, but we dodged him pretty sharpish. Neither of us were too impressed ...

... we began to descend the steps there was a real oupouring of sulphur gas from the volcano, to the extent that it wasn't just foul-smelling, but it was making everyone choke it was so thick and noxious. We covered our mouths and noses with our jumpers and tried to get down the stairs as quick as we could. Once back at the jeep the driver took us to where the original minibus had dropped us off, we went into a hotel and had breakfast (surrounded by a shocking myriad of ...

... to be suffering from swine flu and, keen to share, would cough, splutter and sneeze constantly without covering their mouths. Breakfast was included in our room rate, but due to the amount of germs and phlegm flying around, we decided to eat out. <br><br>Yogya is a pretty laid back city and the people are friendly, warm and helpful. However, there isn't a great deal to see or do within the city itself. We spent one morning wandering around the Kraton (the ...

... that they would like to take a picture. Thinking that they would like for YOU to take a picture of THEM, you reach for their camera and smile, saying &#8220;Sure.&#8221; No, you are wrong. They would like YOU to take a picture WITH THEM, even though you don&#8217;t know them and they have no idea who you are. It doesn&#8217;t matter that they don&#8217;t know you --- you are white and therefore they want to take a picture with you! To be fair, it&#8217;s probably all foreigners ...

... book, you can always watch the film, but the book is better, if not slightly more sad/depressing; very cliche. My book reviewing skills are so great that you can catch my new TV series, which is soon to be released on Channel 5. This may, or may not be true [Tom: He stars in his own 'erotic thriller' in case you were wondering].<br><br>[Tom: We got up to go to the Sultan's Palace. On the walk down, many people couldn't stop staring at Andy. We walked past a group of ...

... had such little time, we decided to skip out on most of Bali - it's just overridden with tourists and not what we wanted to see. We did stay two nights; enough to see that it was dirty, over-priced, the surf was ****, and had all the familiar fast food chains. We quickly got on the bus/ferry ride that took us into Java. Our first stop in Java was Probbolinggo. It is the starting point for going up to Mount ...

... plenty of time to return my bike. I arrived before any of the tourist buses so had some breakfast outside before ...

... to visit more than anything else and had lofty expectation status in my mind. Some had lived up to their expectations (Angkor), some had not (Viet Nam, Bali), but most certainly, Borobudur is one of the greatest architectural wonders I have seen in the world. I road my motorbike about 40km north of Yogya, passed many of the small stores, restaurants and petrol stands that line the main highway and with views of the ...

... gesehen. Es ist einfach nur traurig, wie die Ti**e da gehalten w**den. Ich meine die eine Schlage (sah aus wie eine Würgeschlagen - dick wie meine Wadeln und wahrscheinlich ziemlich lang, lag in so einem offenen Platik behält**, ich hätte die sich** anfassen können) sah ziemlich tot aus und dann haben die da auch die eingefärben Kücken. Ach ja, das tollste hab ich ganz v**gessen - es hat die ganze Zeit nicht g**egnet und die Sonne hat geschienen - nach fast ein** Woche Dau**regen!!

... an hour as I watched the scenery (neighbourhoods, people, rice paddies, rolling hills), i drifted off to sleep for the rest of the train ride. We arrived safe and sound at about 1am and walked to our hotel - i had booked it online prior - turns out it is quite "fancy" - we immediately fell in love with the comfy beds and "tall" shower and decided to stay there for the next two nights as well. This morning we decided to take a peek around... Yogya is a ...