Hotel Endah Parahyangan Bandung

... different at the mall. Like everywhere . . . same stores . . . so I return to the hotel to check out and it is around 11:30. When I return I am told that the bus company has called. I really don't quite understand what is happening as they say that if I was leaving earlier the bus would be me up at the hotel but because I am leaving at 1pm I have to go to their office!!!! The hotel tells me they will drive me to the office and I ...

... don't need the tourist office to do that, I can just get a taxi myself!!! Being that the mosque is just beside I decide to visit it. It is quite impressive in size and has some nice stain glass. Quite interesting to see the life and day to day activity going on just under the arches of the mosque.

I dropped in at My Moritz Hotel to check out what tours they are ...

... and started hunting for a decent hotel. Being that today is Friday, many hotels are booked or they are asking a week-end price which is at least 100,000 higher than during the week. After searching for a couple of hours, I finally get a room at Vue Palace Hotel for 455,000 incld. breakfast and it is the only hotel with wifi in the room. The room ...

Learned about the earthquake on Sumatra via email from the US. We didn't feel a thing and the locals don't complain to their guests, I guess.

We;re off to Bandung today. Very slow day, waiting for our ride. The route takes us thru Puncak Pass, a resort area for the locals. Its elevation makes it refreshing, but the traffic is a horror. On weekends it is so bad that commercial transport, like our mini bus, has to bypas it and take a long way around.

... day I went on yet another motorbike tour to beautiful Indonesian countryside. We went through a town that was all about strawberries. Every few metres there was a sign for a strawberry farm, and there were stawberries just literally everywhere. So I stopped to buy strawberries, and they were so good that I bought some more on the way back. :) It was a Sunday, so there were a million tourists from Jakarta, but no other foreign tourists. Anyway, you can look ...

... Only 30 minutes from Bandung and 150 minutes from Jakarta. You are invited to come and enjoy the Interesting, wonderful, different, and exciting places to relax, explore your inner awareness, and practice your spiritual beliefs. The fitest place to do personal and group retreat , all ages. We have created the perfect environment for ...

... at the train station, Nora gives him a 50000 rupiah bill (ok, stupid, we should have had the correct change) and waits for her change, he's like leaving, we're saying:"Hey, it was thirty thousand!", he says:"Noooo, fffiiiirfrfty thousand", I say:"Well, have fun then"... In Surabay we just stayed the night to catch the early train to Yogyakarta the next morning. Yogya is a quite charming city in central Java, close to beach, mountains and countryside. This time we actually met some ...

... drank it at night so a few hours later we went back out to resume the hunt. Finally we tracked it down, a man had a stall near the train station, we ordered 2 glasses and sat down on his little bench ....................................... ....................................... ...............................2 mins later we chucked the contents of the glasses away and left! Bajigur was a terrible disapointment, there must have been ...

Hey. Since our last update we have been busy completing an open water diving certificate. Our first two dives were really cool and we saw some dangerous sea animals. During the first exercise a poisonous sea snake was trying to nibble our dive masters ankle - luckily they are very scared of anything so it swam/wiggled away quickly. Next we spotted two white tip reef sharks - they are amazing creatures to see so close up - so graceful but ...

... kebun-kebun pribadi ini juga menjual produk-produk homemade berbasis strawberry, seperti selai, dodol, dan sirup. Saya sempat mencicipi dodolnya, dan hasilnya ternyata pahit seperti dibubuhi obat. Jus strawberry segar, bagi saya, tetap yang paling enak. Kalua Jeruk, Oleh-oleh dari Kota Wisata Ciwidey Sebelum melakukan perjalanan pulang ke Bandung, kami mampir di salah satu toko yang menjual oleh-oleh Ciwidey. Kata-kata "kalua jeruk, oleh-oleh khas Ciwidey" terpampang ...