...you start thinking of a motorcycle as a "family" vehicle I just got back from a little expat-filled trip to Bali, where I was put up by the lovely Inger. After experiencing the wondrous delights of Ubud and Inger's palacial Balinese-style house, complete with home-made yoghurt and Mangosteens, we travelled south with fellow aussies Ian, Carle...

There's no better way to put it- Indonesia is a place of extremes. Driving back through town tonight in the back of a beaten up old mini van with no windows or doors (the most common form of transport in Bogor aka Angkot), I peered out into the darkness to behold a young guy sporting a shirt with the slogan "Does this condom make me look fa...

Selamat Malam!   Greetings from the rainiest place on earth! (quite literally; look Bogor up in your encyclopaedia)   Before i go any further, I'd like to do a standard travelpod declaration for those of you who are newcomers to my proverbial wanderings.   That is- the entire content of this blog, be it indigo, audio, video o...

Di Institut Pertanian Bogor saya menuntut ilmu untuk menjadi seorang dokter hewan

What a shit day we end up on three trains and the last one took us to a place we did not mean to go to so ended up in jakarta and alex had his mp3 player stolen

September 5th:today I left Jakarta and took a train to Bogor. Bogor, 60km from Jakarta, is most famous for it's botanical gardens, known as the Kebun Raya (Great Garden), covering an area of around 80 hectares. After a fine lunch at Jongko Ibu I went to see the botanical gardens and walked there for some hours. In the Wisma Ramayana gueshouse I...