Hotel Trio Indah Malang

... hidung kita sendiri dan menahan nafas ketika sebuah bus harus
beradu cepat dengan mengeluarkan asap hitamnya yang khas menjengkelkan
itu........

Pernahkah kita menyadari indahnya nyanyian burung
didalam simfoni alam yang anggun jauh dari suara klakson menjengkelkan
itu.....Hhhmmm.....ter ...

... get on but the lady shows me the front seat and my baggage goes in the back!! Well today I am counting my lucky stars!!! What luxury, what comfort!!! . . . but this has to be the busiest day of all the holidays. The traffic is horrendous as well as the driver!!! He is driving like a mad man and then thinks it is funny. There are traffic jams everywhere but it doesn't stop him!!! He passes everyone by going on the shoulder and if he ...

... our bags!! After a long chat about Indonesia and the UK etc (I refrained from asking about the flood, fearing it may be a taboo subject round these ways) we got onto the subject of the trek!! The guy seemed really friendly and funny too and before we knew it we had paid up almost a million each and were officially heading off camping in the jungle tomorrow!!

With the deal signed sealed and delivered so to speak we grabbed a bite to eat served on the banana leaf plate we are ...

It's gonna scheduled in January 7th. I'm gonna have this vacation with my friends in University of Indonesia Press, Suara Mahasiswa. We'll depart from Jakarta by Train (Senen-Malang) maybe. after that we have so many event to attend there. I hope it will be a success trip :)

... or try the Yogy delicacy of Nasi Gudeg (Jackfruit cooked in Coconut milk with boiled rice) 'cos next morning we left quite early for another long bus ride, on the very comfortable public bus service with air con, through Solo, pausing briefly at a huge road house where we were served the set lunch - which was almost entirely inedible! On the outskirts of some anonymous town we were switched back to minibuses for a further couple of hours bumpy ride ...

... somewhere special I did not know what to expect to see by the light of day. But I was totally unprepared for what was revealed as the perfect night sky (Milky Way and all) gave way to the rising sun. I saw that I was surrounded by a completely alien landscape which in the mixture of poor light and choking sulphur smoke look like some sort of fantasy artwork. I also saw across the Sea of Sand that we had traversed over the ...

... kamerke toegewezen (het is hier ongeveer 10 graden, 25 graden verschil met een paar uur eerder). Na 3 uurtjes op het bed te hebben gelegen mochten we er terug uit om den berg te gaan beklimmen om er op tijd aan te komen om de zonospgang te zien. Na nog eens 700 meter hoger te zijn gereden met nen jeep in den pikkendonker kwamen we aan op het panoramisch uitzichtpunt waar het ondertussen nog maar 4 graden was. Koud dus, vooral als ge niets anders dan slippers aan uw voeten hebt. We ...

... et la Bolivie.. beaucoup en commun.. la pauvrete.. les deux pays les plus corrompus du monde... trouble sociaux.. j ai pas vu que des belles maison en roulant depuis yogyakarta.. pour superpose les phots de yogyakarta.. pour les villes traversees.. rajouter des banaeraire et des plantations de cana sucre et des risieres.. qui n ont rien de bucolique comme a bali.. et vous avez le dexors de java... ensuite un smog qui voile le soleil.... bref retour a mon volcan.. on l a ...

We travelled all day to get to Wonokitri, transferring three times on the "localest" of local buses. This was probably one of the most character-building experiences that we've had to date. We ended up getting stuck in Pasrepan because of miscommunication. Three thousand isn't three HUNDRED thousand. We thought we would get to Wonokitri, the jumping off point for hikes around the volcanic Mount Bromo for 3000 rupiah (less than 1 USD) because that's ...

... totaly off the tourist trail, I'm pretty sure I'm the only western in town. Loads of stares and hellos, bycicle taxis, food stalls etc. I went to the beach for the morning. "Why do tourists like the beach?" my Indonesian friend asked. I found it hard to come up with a good answer, something to do with turning their skin red I think. Asians don't like to go out in the sun as it will make their skin darker and light skin is most ...