Ida Hotel Malang

... the American by the end) and about 12 bushels of corn which they managed to arrange space for. The hour ended up taking 3 hours in total and stopped about 100 times to drop people off or pick more people up. But finally, we arrived.

Mount Bromo has been the coldest place that we have been to so far. The temperature drops down to 5 celcius at night. It was quite the break from the smoking hot that we had been experiencing so far. We ...

... that there is no one signed up for the tour to Mount Bromo but they can provide me with a car and driver who would pick me up at Helios Hotel at 1:30 am and we would arrive at the viewpoint at 4 am where I would wait to view the sunrise and then we would proceed to Mount Bromo Crater and then he would drop me off at Cimero Lawang like I want. (Basically this is the tour everyone offers but the tours with a group offer a guide, coffee and ...

... us over and the driver ushers us on board!! Round the corner and along the road he stops the bus and takes our cash and then proceeds to get off the vehicle!! We sit and wait...and wait and wait and wait and '**** this' I've had enough and I have also just realised that we have no cash and there almost certainly won't be a cash point in Bukit Lawang!! I get off the bus to ask the driver where the nearest ATM is and I receive a hand in my face, I go to ask him again and the same happens ...

... up eating with them and trying to get my head around the coming elections and learn some new Indonesian phrases. It was nice as usually, as with most places in Asia, woman are less sociable (certainly with western men) due to their status ...

... stuck its hand out of the cage. Like if you gave him your finger, he would rip it off. I was not going to fall for it! (I would have fallen for that trick for the Malaysian monkeys. They looked like teddy bears) The next animal was a flying fox. I guess these were featured on temple of doom. They are the biggest bats you could ever imagine. There were hairy and about the size of a raccoon with a huge wing span. I had ...

... odkud uz je to na Bromo jenom kousek. Jeste na nadrazi v Surabaye jsme si ale stihli objednat odvoz z Probolinga do Cemoro Levangu, takze nakonec to vsechno bylo jednodussi, nez jsme cekali. Nas prevoz v Probolingu musel "nahodou" zastavit v cestovni agenture, kde jsme meli chvili pockat na dalsi odvoz. Zajistili jsme si tam dzip na dalsi den na Bromo a hned potom minibus na Ijen Plateau, kam jsme se take chteli podivat, a jeste odvoz na trajekt na Bali. Kdyz ...

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Sampai diatas, ada banyak toko yang menyediakan kopi atau teh hangat dan api unggun untuk menghangatkan tubuh sambil menunggu waktu tebitnya matahari. Ada pula toko yang menyewakan pakaian hangat. Menyaksikan terbitnya matahari memang merupakan peristiwa yang ...

... poses 10h. les paysages assez moches.. en fait on roulait sur la route principale qui traverse l ile depuis Jakarta.. biderctionnelle.. donc c est la circulation en heure de pointe de l autoroute lausanne geneve ou berne zurich sur une voie... le chaos.. y a des vehicules lents, des camions super lents, des bus, des charrettes, motos.. voitures... ca depasse dangeureusement dans tous les sens... tu vois arriver en face un gros poids lour en depassement et notre chauffeur doit ...

... take a huge breath. We all sank under, trapped by everything. I opened my eyes underwater & it was black (the water was muddy brown), it was like being blind, i tried to surface, but somebody landed on top of me, then i tried again, fighting the torrent, but was trapped by the rock, then i gave it one last go, & the raft was trapping me ...

... to the actual crater space and climbed up to the rim of the volcano. It looked like such a long way around! We had very little time but decided to do it anyway. I can't imagine that I nearly came close to missing out on that walk... It was pretty steep and occasionally we had to stop as the sulphurous fumes were overwhelming, but the views back into the crater made it look as if we could just lean over and tumble straight in.