What a long day

Trip Start Nov 01, 2007
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Trip End Jun 28, 2008


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Where I stayed
Hotel Semut
(Surabaya hotels)

Flag of Indonesia  , Java,
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Well, we've never been in three countries in one day before. That's been interesting (and tiring!) We had breakfast in Singapore, lunch in Malaysia, and dinner in Indonesia. We left Singapore and made the reverse trip back to the airport without any bother. We arrived in Surabaya just in time for rush hour traffic. Although, we have since realised that any time of the day is rush hour traffic. For some reason, I never really thought of Indonesia as being heavily populated. I was absolutely dumbfounded to realise that the island of Java alone has a population of nearly 130 million people! Holy Moly! And there are a lot of vehicles on the roads. Lots and lots and lots. But still, through a combination of bus, minivan and cyclo we arrived in one piece to our hotel.

The sun sets sooooo early here - that's one thing that will need getting used to. The sun is below the horizon by about 5:15pm and its fully completely dark before 6pm. So, our first meal in Indonesia was room service in our hotel (how posh of us!) and an ealy night. We can save the exploring until tomorrow.

Our main object here in Surabaya is to try to figure out the fastest/easiest/cheapest way to get to Flores. What I think we are going to discover is that there is no such thing. I dread to think what will end up being involved! As long as I don't have to paddle a kayak there myself, I guess I'll be fine.

More soon,
K & M
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