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…