Tunjungan Hotel Surabaya

... lift we found colleagues and friends assembled with copious amounts of food and drink....and more presents!<br>It was a truly memorable evening and our thanks to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.................but especially to Viki for putting the whole thing together ....you're a star! (and to Luke for letting me stay till the end.......cheers mate!) Ex-pats rock!

... reading the headlines. After he got off another newspaper hawker boarded and repeated the same process and with the same newspaper. This happened a couple of times before we reached the main bus station so everyone had a good chance to work their way through the paper free of charge, albeit in snippets. At the main bus ...

... there is more to Bali than the nasty southern part of the island, but I would not find this out on this trip. We reached the ferry terminal and everyone loaded up on the massive passenger ferries that freqently travel the short distance from Bali to Java. There were all these poor Balinese kids who would jump from the top deck of the massive ferry into the ...

... ce trois jours!!!! que dire de plus!!!! 1 iere journee (3 janvier), nous sommes partie de notre guest house pour aller au Mont. On devait faire 100 metre selon l'agence de voyage mais en realite c'etait 5km, nous avons peste tout le long mais on est arrive quand meme au pourtour du cratere, qui fait 10km de diametre (impressionant). Une vue imprenable sur le mont Bromo , qui se situe dans ce grand cratere, un panorama presque lunaire. Une belle journee en perspective. Seul ...

... temples are supposed to be amazing. But, you need to stay on the path because the site still possesses mines. Isn't that strange? The marathon that I will be running has a special category for amputees. Doesn't that break your heart? Saturday night, there is a carbo loading dinner. I will be running the 1/2 marathon early Sunday morning. My three day weekend should be just long enough ...

... the money from this + extra fund raising events is used to pay the salaries of 2 Indonesian teachers who teach in the children's cancer wards of this hospital. We provide books and other materials etc. for them too. We were invited to visit in order to work out the best way of introducing some of our students to this charity. These are people without the funds to afford the better hospitals in town and one of our ...

... road. My friends Scott Sandor and Esther can only truly appreciate this as I used to sleep through long bus journeys in central America to awake to their shrieks and screams as Esther would get off the bus cursing in Dutch at the bus driver. I can't adequately describe the absurdness of driving in Java. Lots of trucks, buses, bikes, motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycle food carts and a few cars jostling for position ...

... I hated the crowd. The jeep then took me to the bottom plateau and I had to walk the rest of the way to the top of the crater. There was small temple used for ceremony to honor and please the mountain. Visitors can also please the mountain by throwing a bouquet of flower in the crater. The same crowd that was up at the viewpoint are also now on the bottom. Many walked along side with me while some hired a horse to take them across the deserted plateau. I ...

Destination 158: km91'801 Nun wird endlich alles klar gemacht! Da ich mit meinem 21- Tage- Visum nicht mehr weiter komme, entscheide ich mich fuer den Verlad von Surabaya aus nach Darwin - nicht zuletzt unterstuetzt durch den heute ca. 120 km vor Surabaya geschehenen Unfall. Naja, wenn Sattelschlepper ploetzlich unvermittelt quer in einer Haupstrasse stehen und alle Fahrspuren blockieren wenn ...

... Laut Aru untuk membebaskan Irian Barat dari pendudukan Belanda. Di Surabaya juga terdapat monumen Jalesveva Jayamahe, patung yang menggambarkan seorang Perwira TNI Angkatan Laut lengkap dengan pedang kehormatannya berdiri tegak menatap ke arah laut. Patung ini setinggi 60 m dan merupakan patung tertinggi kedua di dunia setelah patung Liberty di New York. Setelah 3 hari di Surabaya, kami naik kereta api dari stasiun Pasar Turi menuju Jakarta.