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Getting to Gili the hard way
The mission was to get from Ubud to the Gili islands on time before the 31st, as i promoted an idea to the guys that was just stuck in my head – the new year celebration goa party by spacebar…
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Ubud – dubidu
An exhausting 3 hours scooter drive through the busy streets of Denpasar later, we arrived in Ubud – full of expectations. But again, all we saw was the crowds of tourists. Most of them do not even stay in Ubud,…
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More bombs on Bali (please!)
What happened on Bali? Well, nothing too much. We stayed in Kuta for some days, moved to Seminyak, celebrated christmas, split up and went to Ubud (seperate post), welcomed a little baby bird to our family, experienced some unbelievable ripp-offs…
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Bromo (Volcano)
Since Yola’s good knowledge about tours in the eastern part of Java, and our general sympathy, the complete group of 5 crazy germans and a half (~1,50m) indonesian left for a Mount Bromo tour on our way to Bali.…
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Culture Clash – Yogyakarta
Together with glen i took the decision to buy a transport bundle from pangandaran to yogyakarta, meaning a combination of shuttlebus and business class train. How we had to realize that was a total waste of money, as we could…
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Pangandaran
All i knew about pangandaran was that it’s on a beach and near a national park. After almoust 5 weeks in cities my heart was screaming for exactly those 2 kinds of pleasure. A local shuttle bus took me there…
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Bandung BeatboxXx Bboy Battle Blast
Little-J is organizing those weekly events in the commonroom, which are actually called “DJ workshops”, but instead, and i wasn’t expecting that at all, they’re weekly little hiphop jams. Besides DJing they include breakdancing, beatboxing, and eventually everybody who has…
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Bomb Bandung
Following James to Bandung was one of the best “flows” I experienced on my travel yet. I got so stuck in the “Common Room” that I hardly wanted to leave again. This is where I met some of the craziest…
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Jakarta blues
Having left the philippines through gate 111, which completed the 11-11-11 symbolism of the previous days, I arrived in Jakarta a few hours later at late in the evening. Right at the airport i was welcomed by this sign here:
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Zed’s dead, … but this blog not (so much)!
Almoust 2 months without any update, but instead my blog is victim to large spam attacks. Yet I had an incredible time in indonesia, though I misliked some parts of it. But the people I met and the experiences I…