Ayer Island Resort Jakarta

... exhibit. The orang-utan areas caretaker is an old German lady, unable to get the animals there transported to conservation centres she has stayed there and looked after the animals for many years. It was a great experience for Danni as we plan on going to see orang-utans in the jungle but it is forbidden to feed or touch the animals in the wild. We arrived at the zoo around feeding time and with the help of the assistant we were able to feed the animals and ...

... see what there is to see (I don't have the Lonely Planet so once again I am slightly lost). I get the usual city map and brochures explaining the sites not to be missed. Being that I am within walking distance to the "Monas" - the Monument National I decide to start there. I put in a full day of sight seeing in the city center and I was most impressed with the National Museum. It has to be the absolute best that I have seen in Asia so far ...

... it sorted!) so we arrived with plenty of time to spare and had a really nice meal of avocado toasties with salad! A welcome change after all that damn rice! The flight to Jakarta was only 40 minutes so we got a taxi and quickly got to know our next tour group, a swiss couple, a maltese couple, a kiwi couple, a young aussie girl and chris a single guy in his 50s. Everyone is really nice so we feel like a little family, we call chris 'dad' and since hes a doctor he gets bombarded with all ...

... group * Group Jugling * Everbody up * Big ...

... impossible to cross the roads as a pedestrian 'cos the tidal wave of vehicles simply ignores you - invisibility cloak achieved. And up at Kota Square, when the system gridlocks, many mopeds just leave the road and charge down the pavement, like mounted cavalry. At one point I had to scramble up a wall for safety. I did try to walk the few blocks from the Batavia Cafe on Kota Square up to the harbour, but was beaten back by the ...

... from the Dutch and you can get a lift up to the top to see the city. Because of the end of Ramadan holidays it was packed and the queue to get to the top was ridiculous so we left. We saw later on the news that it was the busiest weekend ever for the Monas with 7,000 visitor queuing up to go to the top - in the blistering heat - no thanks! So we left the Monas after walking around the museum at the base of the monument. The museum was actually ...

Here i am on my last leg of my journey sort of speak..last country before Aus! I'm looking forward to Aus but certainly gonna make the most of the next two weeks as my time in Asia will be sadly coming to an end...back to the western world! Welcome to Java, one of thousands of islands but the most populated with half of the country's population (around 250 million peeps in Indonesia, 4th most populated country in the world). My intent was not even to stay a night in ...

... di TV tua kakek begitu indah dan megah itu? Pikiranku waktu itu langsung mengatakan... ini adalah kota yang paling tidak ingin aku jadikan tempat tinggal. Masih jauh lebih luar biasa desaku pikirku. Namun juga jauh di kemudian hari... kota inilah yang menjadi saksi sejarah terbesar hidupku. Dan mau tak mau aku pun harus bersyukur untuk itu.

... spiciness" factor. Yesterday the boys said they wanted to take me to more "traditional" Indonesian restaurant. Apparently by traditional they meant a tin shed with a dirt floor and about a thousand people. I got them to order me the least spicy food there, but I could still only manage 2 mouthfuls before I had to call mercy and buy myself some fried rice for lunch. My goal by the time I leave is to be able to order a meal from them in Bahsa and get through the whole lot on my own.

... were not as slippery as I thought they were..... still my rockclimbing came in handy and I eventually made it to the top and the rock to jump from was quite rounded at the end and you had to step off the rounded end to get a good jump -- lord all i kept thinking was if I step on that rounded end and slip and crack my head open ...ahhhh! anyway they told me it wasn't slippery and people helped cheer me on -- they counted to three - but eh i jumped and it was great ...