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New experience in jkt

A travel blog entry by riccardo978

i ve been in jakarta many times and the first thing you need to avoid is to land in soeakarno Hatta in the peek hours of the day ( like around 5.00 pm)!!!by car , a normal transit of 40 min can take even 2 hours!!!!jakarta without traffic jam will not be the real jakartajakarta has 2 different and , let me say, opposi faces ; one is the rich and …

I am Morrissey

A travel blog entry by bruceontour

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Just look at the traffic and the disregard of some parents to their youngster’s safety on the scooters!

Back to the Morrissey and to me the peaceful clean haven that it offers. I really like this place. In one of the lifts it has …I have an industrial twist of Dutch-colonial style to my ...

Une mégalopole pour plus de 17 000 îles

A travel blog entry by mickariane

... dans cet �quivalent de la D�fense puissance mille, des autoroutes de huit voies drainent une file de 4*4 ininterrompue ... et bien souvent immobile!
La ville est bien souvent paralys�e par des embouteillages monstres de plusieurs heures (c'est du v�cu). Pour y rem�dier, la mairie a d'ailleurs mis en place une taxe: toutes les voitures circulant aux heures de pointe (� partir de 17 heures le soir) doivent poss�der au moins ...

30 min and Counting

A travel blog entry by sacha.sukhia

... outside?” All truly wonderful memories…

We went to check into our flight from Jakarta to Manila 2.5 hours before takeoff. We have, at this point, mastered our luggage keeping our total checked in luggage well below the 20kg allotted to each of us (our carry-on weighs about 15kg each). At check-in we show our unlimited entry 12-month visas to the check-in clerk. She asks us for proof of an onward ...

Jakarta - Volcano day

A travel blog entry by juliescott

We woke and had coffee and breakfast at Sony & Mani's home. Boiled eggs, toast and a mint/coriander chutney that they make at home. Delicious! In addition to their live-in maid (who they joke never shows up for work - which she didn't on Saturday or Sunday), they also have a driver. Mani's company buys him a car and pays for the driver, gas, etc. Sony said DFCB would do the same. It's common in Jakarta for people to have drivers. The traffic is ...

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