Four Seasons Jakarta

We arose on Sunday slightly jaded and as agreed the previous night we made our way to the Four Seasons hotel for lunch with Jon and Adrian and some of their expat friends. The hotel has a buffet style lunch every Sunday and is very popular with the expats ...

We went back to the Four Seasons for another food and drink extravaganza.... just the 14 courses this time and only a few bottles of bubbly each !! Afterwards Jonathan took us to experience some of the local retail delights that Jakarta has to offer - ...

... pagi (Lulu n' Mamih ga ikut karena jatah Breakfast hanya 2 person/room). Breakfastnya lumayan enak, not bad untuk hotel sekelas Four Seasons. Saya sendiri memilih Dimsum and a few slices of raw salmon to fill my stomach. Their Honeydew Melon and ...

... most delicious shabu-shabu @ 3am, went to a pretty damn good club, played 'never have I ever', experienced the magic of Jakarta and found myself somehow. In those early hours of driving through the city, laughter outbursts, I reset something I ...

... experiences. At the Nihiwatu Resort Sumba island last Christmas, we were treated to great food overseen by the ex chef from the Four Seasons in Bali. The Paradiso Village was billed as a great place for food. We enjoyed the meals, but they provided ...

... .  We stuck to roads as close to the beach as possible and ended up driving past all of the swank resorts - Ritz, Four Seasons, etc.  We found a little trafficked gravel road that took us through some lush tropical forests and eventually to a ...

... of Kuta and as you head north to Legian it gets a bit cleaner and tamer. Further north still and you're in  Seminyak - Four Seasons and Oberoi land. We divined the middle course and checked into the Grand Kumala Hotel in Legian.  The hotel was ...

... ."  For dinner, I took Bret's suggestion and went to Jimbaran Bay, where there are a lot of snooty hotels like the Four Seasons but there are also loads of cheap cafes right on the beach that grill fresh seafood over coconut husks. I hired a ...

... ;clock trip to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. During the ride, I reflected on our last trip to that country. Four years ago, we had gone to the capital, Jakarta, and spent two nights there and then flew on to Bali where we stayed another two ...

... slowly saw Goa meander into a trading decline through the 18th century from which it would never really recover. The more Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai came on line, the more did Goa’s relevance recede. Then someone mentioned that an ...

... finally am at the end of the world!  Anywhere else is literally thousands of miles away and the capital city of Jakarta, Indonesia is closer than Australia's own Canberra!  Even Singapore and Bandar Seri Bagawan are nearer.  The Chamber of ...

... There is no confusing this city for anywhere else it is very distinctive, and that's what I loved about it. They have two seasons not four and both are extreme, and extreme opposites of each other, wet and a dry. They have monsoonal like rains in the wet ...