Destination: Indonesia

Volunteers

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 | By seesea | Views [1467]

Balikpappan is an oil town in East Kalimantan with all of the ambiance that conjures up.   There are oil platforms offshore and the smell of open sewers in town.   You would be right to wonder what we are doing here.   This is the tropical forest ... Read more >

Finally Bali

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 | By jadepeters | Views [657] | Comments [1]

I just spent 15 minutes in an internet cafe typing an entry repeatedly as the connection kept dropping out, so here goes one last try... Yesterday was a day that I have been waiting for for so long I can hardly believe its already over. Luke and I headed ... Read more >

Gallery: Kalimantan

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Photo Gallery

Yogya to Jakarta

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Views [1299]

We returned to Jakarta at the height of rush hour and it took our tuk-tuk more than 30 minutes to reach the hotel.   I had a splitting headache from the noise and the exhaust.  Our last day in Yogyakarta wasn’t much better.   We avoided the batik ... Read more >

February- Pasola, Indonesia

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [1851] | Video

Location: Sumba, Indonesia Dates: During February and March; the timing is determined by the arrival of a type of sea worm called nyale Level of Participation: 1 – this is a blood sport so sit back and let others do the hurting. Description:... Read more >

Tags: indonesia, pasola, sumba, world festivals

Signing off Indonesia

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [1117] | Comments [2]

From 'Yogya' we decided that it was time to experiment with a different form of transportation (mainly due to the fact that we had used most of our 9 lives on the roads already). Java unlike Bali has a train service, so we decided we should experience ... Read more >

Tags: indonesia, jakarta

Java

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [2094] | Comments [4]

Our stay in Lovina was very relaxing and we spent our days lazing by the pool and chatting to other travellers staying at the hotel, it was too hot to do anything else! Just outside the hotel was a warung (small cafe selling home cooked food) where ... Read more >

Tags: borobudur, java, mount bromo, prambanan, yogyakarta

Borobudur

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Views [2612]

Most visitors to Borobudur come from Yogyakarta for the day but we stayed for three nights.   Our room in the Lotus 2 Guesthouse is huge and the balcony overlooks the rice paddies in the rear.   We are the only guests, there is plenty of hot water,the ... Read more >

Bali and Lembongan

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 | By tantrum | Views [673] | Comments [1]

The crew at Ashmore were not only friendly and professional, but useful –Cameron (Customs) had passed on to us a phone number for a friend of his (Mickey) in Bali that might prove handy, and boy did he. We left for Bali Monday evening and arrived early ... Read more >

Tags: bali lembongan philippines kuta ashmore

Prambanan

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Views [1522]

It has been more than a month since Ayuthaya, Thailand, our last archeological site.   We have spent most of the time at the national parks and traveling from country to country but today we are in ‘Yogya’ to visit nearby Prambanan. Prambanan is ... Read more >

Three Capitals in Twelve Hours

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Views [694]

While the rest of the world tuned in to Barack Obama’s inauguration we joined about 200 other travelers and tried to get comfortable on the cold, hard tile floor of the Kuala Lumpur airport.   KL has become the budget priced hub of choice for SE Asia ... Read more >

Gallery: Java

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Photo Gallery

Ubud

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [1303] | Comments [1]

The plan was to explore each of the Gili Islands, but in the end we stayed on Gili T for a week before heading back to Bali and Ubud. The journey was long (12 hours) but pretty uneventful except a small diversion off the road to avoid a monkey and ... Read more >

Tags: lovina, monkeys, ubud

Gili T

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [3522] | Comments [4]

Heir to the Throne Gili Trawangan or 'Gili T' as it's known to the locals is the largest of the 3 Gili islands, that said it has no motorised transport (transport is provided by horse drawn carriages that sound like Reindeer due to the small ... Read more >

Gallery: Jobja

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 | By jsherdc | Photo Gallery