Royal Orchids Garden Hotel Malang

... room ready!!!! It was on the 2nd floor of the motel style hotel. My deluxe or superior room only had one sheet on the bed and the towel still had the "sweat smell" of the previous guest!!! but the room was indeed very clean. I am paying 200,000 and did not negotiate the price!! Breakfast is included. You guessed it! Once again, out came my sheet and towel. Took a shower and settled into bed with a great light and easy reading novel!!!

... 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 ...

... hour and a half. Always looking to bite off more than I can chew I elected to attempt the hike from the crater floor up to the viewpoint and still get back to town in time for my bus departure at 9am. So I left the other 20 or so crater walkers and set off across the Sea of Sand again. It was tough work and in total I was walking for almost 5hrs before 9am that morning but not only did I have the views totally to myself (most of ...

... 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 ...

February 08 and we were on the trail of orangutans. We visited the lush and tranquil jungle village of bukit lawang a beautiful area of wooden stilt houses cut in half by a mighty river which served the locals as a place to bathe,swim and drink. Whilst there we visited the rehabilitation centre for orangutans situated on the other side of the river we were winched across in a small boat attached to a pulley system once on ...

... j ai fait le tour pris quelques photos et retour a la jeep.. le volcan et le paysage sont magnifiques, vous verrez les photos mais c est pas les volcans de nouvelle zelande non plus... les alentours sont magnifique par contre.. je serai bien reste un jour de plus pour explore si j avais pas ete tout seul.. la region ressemble aux alentrours de cuzco.. ils cultives en pente raide.. du mais, des choux... ils ont des jolies maisons.. des montagnards.. en bus beuacoup sont ...

... he said, but really he meant 300,000 (which is more than 30 USD). Fair enough, it was quite a bit up a mountain but it's not what the locals would pay. We even asked the tourist "police" what the price should be and they (I believed) lied to us to benefit the locals. We ended up taking motorbikes, one each because of our big packs, all the way up the mountain. My abs got quite a workout. We ended up staying at Kartika Homestay (not to be confused with ...

I did a little research as to why Bali keeps getting bombed. Bali is a hindu island. Many other parts of INdonesia is Muslim though. Bali is the biggest tourist place in Indonesia and apparently this had made the Muslims upset. IN order to destroy the tourism, they have bombed Bali 3 times. This has greatly hurt the economy and the tourism will never be the same again. We only stayed a night in Kuta and left ...