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The final destination of our Java trip in 2010 and the final post. A short stay which didn’t allow much time to explore one of the largest cities in South East Asia. We heard about the wild raunchy parties but will have to save it for our next visit. Jakarta is a melting pot which [...]
The story continues from Day 7 : Back to Bandung An overdose of “Bandung-esque” shopping, or rather a lack of it, prompted us to get out of Bandung and into the cool highlands towards Tangkuban Perahu . We hopped on a tiny, terror Angkot van from town. It was a nice ride from the warm [...]
The story continues from Day 6: Faces of Yogyakarta After buying our train tickets for the Argo Willis, which leaves at 1.30pm for Bandung, we found we had some time to kill, so we hopped on a ‘becak’ for a quick tour of yogya. According to the popular travel guide book, it says there are [...]
Faces, places and traces of life between our journey from Pengandaran to Solo. Revisiting our Java images, we thought it would be interesting to tell of some tales which were missing from our earlier Java posts. This post is written by both Cumi & ciki. Driving from Pengandaran to the train station, we saw this [...]
If statues could talk, they would whisper about the journey of pilgrims from afar, who would come in the name of religion and spirituality, in search of great moral significance. If statues could talk, they would lament of an earthquake of such magnitude it caused severe damage for miles, in the area surrounding them. “Many [...]
Today we leave for Yogyakarta, and hopefully in about a day, I will finally get to see the magnificent Borobudur. Yogyakarta is one of the foremost cultural centers of Java. This region is located at the foot of the active Merapi volcano, Yogyakarta was in the 16th and 17th centuries the seat of the mighty [...]
Heading southeast from Bandung, the road passes through rolling hills and scenic volcanic peaks – this is the Bandung Yogyakarta road as far as Banjar. If you go via road taking the bus for example, it will only drop you so far as Ciamis or Banjar. That is why taking the 4848 is actually the [...]
Old Bandung from www.bandungheritage.org Bandung the capital of West Java province, located about 180 kilometres (110 miles) southeast of Jakarta, is the fourth largest city in Indonesia. This once upon a time idyllic, quiet town has been hit by urbanization and is now a cramped and over populated metropolitan area, a living space for over [...]
Java: Day 1 – Learning the Transportation System Touch down Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, we caught the comfortable Cipaganti (airport shuttle) to Bandung at Rp75,000 per person. It is a 2.5 hour journey to Bandung, but may extend over FOUR hours if the traffic is bad. We came in Chinese New Year and during a [...]
Hi Folks! I am writing this post from the sleepy, beach town of Pangandaran. Pangandaran is a small town and a sub-district in southern Ciamis regency, West Java, Indonesia. It is located on the southern coast of Java, is excellent for surfing, and is also the midway point between Bandung and Yogyakarta, and seemed like [...]
Map of Java courtesy of Lonely Planet Dear reader, Cumi and Ciki will be in Java for 9 days next month (Feb 2010). We need your destination + food suggestions to help us come up with a roadtrip program! Our plan is to fly into Jakarta, make our way through Bandung, Cirebon, Semarang, Solo, Yogyakarta. [...]
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