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Short time in Solo
After a short flight from Singapore, we arrive in Solo, central Java. It is still early morning and we are unable to check into our hotel room so we dump our luggage and hire a cyclo to explore the city. We immediately notice the colour and buzz that is awash here. Colourful painted billboards - advertising anything from soap to tyres are a plenty …
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A volcano on Java
... I thought about volcanoes. It's full of them and half of them still erupt. I had dreams of a trek up and down a load of live ones but mainly due to how long it takes to get around I didn't manage that. The other obstacles were national park restrictions and navigation without maps.
I did however manage to climb one. And I picked it since it was touted as Indonesia's most active. It was also near the place they found Java man- ...
Visiting royalty, palaces
Woke up early today in order to sample one of the things that I'll never get used to about Indonesia - having noodles/rice for breakfast. However, this doesn't mean that it's bad.
I was on my way to visit a noodle shop, through the busy streets (people use their horn as more of a tool to warn other road users than to honk in annoyance/anger). I had thin noodles with chicken stock, along with some very nice cracker-things - basically small meatballs wrapped up and cooked in ...
Finally arrived in Solo!
The wake up call in our resort in Denpasar came at 4:30am, leaving me with only about four hours sleep. Somehow, the air-conditioning left overnight achieved the interesting task of somehow making the room cold enough for me to require a blanket but still hot enough for me to still be sweating (damn this humidity...).
We decided, after showering and packing, that there wasn't enough time for breakfast, so we handed in our keys and waited about 10 ...
Vulkanen, steden en aapjes
... Wat deden wij op die leeftijd?”. Deze jongens waren in oorlog in een vreemd land, jaren van huis. Ook het besef van de huidige vrijheid werd groter. Iets waar we blij mee mogen zijn en wat we moeten koesteren. En niet vergeten wat mensen in het verleden hebben moeten doorstaan zodat wij nu deze vrijheid mogen beleven.
"Ut blieft vrede zoalang as weej dit neet vergeate..." (Rowwen Heze - Vergeate)
Bij de mensen thuis
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