Swiss-Belhotel Borneo
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Planes, trains, and automobiles...not.
... new island looks gorgeous with lots of beaches and small islands everywhere. After some challenges finding accommodations, we settled for a nice spot with hot water and real toilets. Movin on up! A nice dinner and some rum and cokes at Nicks poolside bar (yes, the ice here is ok) we hit the hay to dream of our next adventure to search for Komodo ...
Hello from the Gillis!
... the price of the boat journey and threw in free accomodation for the night! We said "yes please" and he showed us to our "very nice" room.... By 'very nice', he meant free and relatively clean. It was a box. A dusty, rundown box. No plugsockets, no moquito net- luckily Tessa had one so we just layed it over us, head and all! 7.30am Saturday morning, we were on the boat. How I didn't throw up, I have ...
A mighty month in the illustrious Indonesia
... and fisherman and head for our makeshift home. I think my surfing / body boarding days are behind me. Lesson learnt – stay in the shallows.
We are set for new adventures and the dragons await, the Komodo dragons! We fly to the island of Flores and find a boat about to embark on a 2 day tour of the islands, landing in the conservation land of our dragons. We hop aboard for a 2 day, 1 night tour. The boat is run by a captain and two ship hands. We sail away, ...
The pin is in the wrong place! What's to be done?
... the boat nearby, no real cause for alarm. Thought
I’d just remain relatively still, in an effort to avoid a real cramp, and was
immediately caught up in a strong current- suddenly I wasn’t that close to the
others or the boat. Nobody ever wants to admit that panic sets in, but I
quickly realized the situation was less than ideal, feeling a bit jittery, and
signaled to the boys on the boat that assistance was advisable. The response
was a ...
I need sleep!
We arrived in Bangarmasin in no real hurry because we had spent the last couple days traveling and we figured that we would just find a place to stay and figure out the next step towards the orangutans from there. For the first time in a while we were traveling without the help of a LP, so I figured that a stop at the information booth in the airport would be helpful so that we could get a map and some information on local places to stay. ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Fitness/Health center
- Free parking
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