With mixed emotions, we left Indonesia today. It definitely seemed like a long trip in one sense but not long enough in the other. We dealt with a general lack of structure with regards to trip planning and transportation, some really long journeys for a country whose size we vastly underestimated, dramatically lower standards of…
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Jungle Trekking and River Rafting, Ubud
We were treated early this morning to breakfast on our private terrace consisting of banana pancakes with caramel and honey, homemade yogurt, and fresh fruit. The excursion we booked today consisted first of white water rafting, followed by an elephant safari through the jungle. We were first shuttled to the Ayung River, which ran through…
Monkeys and Massages, Ubud
Another heavy travel day for us as we made our way back to Bali after a quick 24-hour jaunt to Komodo. We ate a nice breakfast of banana pancakes and fruit and chilled out until we had to leave for our 12pm flight since there really wasn’t too much to do in town, or at…
Dragon Spotting in Komodo
It was back to early mornings as we had an 8:35am flight to Labuan Bajo, a town on Flores island that served as the gateway for most tours departing for Komodo National Park. This is the day I dreaded and eagerly anticipated at the same time, our big outing to see the frightfully large and…
Beaches and Temples, Bali
Today was an unhealthy mix of fun and disaster. We slept in, and eventually made our way out to venture to the beach. The town of Seminyak was quite charming, with incense and alms left on the sidewalk at every shopfront. It was a ten minute walk to the beach from our hotel, and we…
The longest drive to Bali…
We returned to the hotel around 8:30, with just enough time to eat breakfast (also crappy), take another cold shower, and then jump into another bus where Doug and I squeezed into the front seat together. At this point, I realized I had left the jacket I rented in the Jeep we rode in the…
Trekking Mount Bromo
Yet another day of our sunrise tour as we woke up not-so-bright and early at 3:30am in the freezing cold. We met our 4×4 outside the hotel, and after a brief bout of confusion, they threw us in one of the Jeeps and took off in the pitch dark, up some gravelly, windy roads…
Driving in Indonesia
There’s not much to say about today except that we spent the entire day on the road. So I’ll just write a few observations around our driving experience. Before we hit the road, we enjoyed what will end up being our last good meal in Java – banana pancake for Doug (the best he’s had),…
Yogyakarta, day 2
Our hotel also had free breakfast, so we took advantage of some really delicious pineapple pancakes, mini egg roll, honey/coconut milk roll, mie goreng, watermelon juice, and fruit when we came back since it felt like lunchtime for us (even though it was only 9). Since many of the sites closed by 1, we opted…
Borobudur
During my travels with Doug, we always seem to have a theme. In Argentina, it was the animals, Croatia was full of sunsets, and I think for Indonesia it will be about the sunrises. We woke up at 3am for our trip to Borobudur, one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world. We took…
Yogyakarta, day 1
At long last, after 8 hours flying to Frankfurt, 12 hours to Singapore, 5 hours at Singapore airport, and 2 hours on Air Asia, we have finally arrived at our destination! Yogyakarta was very much a tiny airport, with maybe 5 gates…it was an absolute nightmare trying to get through customs as we first had…
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