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Tag: Indonesia

  • Tanjung Puting National Park

    This is why you travel – I’ll let two pics and two videos do most of my talking for me here. My transport & viewing platform for three days & two nights: It was also my restaurant & hostel: Cruising up the Sekonyer river: Cruising up the Sekonyer River from Tim Gillons on Vimeo. The…

  • The People’s Court: Bandarmasin, Kalimantan (Borneo)

    Judge: The defendant stands accused of violating his oath to “not eat any western food whilst in Indonesia”, to atone for his McDonald’s sins in Australia Defense: Your honor, while my client admits that the lunch he ate at a local establishment was fried chicken, it was not actually western food: There were no other…

  • I’m Not Lion: I was a tad nervous

    It was a little unnerving to be waiting at the gate at the Labuan Bajo airport watching the television coverage of the Lion Air plane crash that had happened at the Bali airport the day before (nobody died). Even more so because the flight I was waiting for was on Lion Air…going to Bali. And…

  • Haircut #2: Labuan Bajo

    When I got off the Flores boat in the town of Labuan Bajo and looked in a mirror for the first time in five days, I realized it was haircut time. The barber I found didn’t know any english, especially the fine-tuned adjectives of what I was looking for in a cut, so I just…

  • Dragon a guard to the toilet

    There are 17,000 islands in Indonesia, and they are spread out over a huge area. So the four day & night live-aboard boat trip I took from the island of Lombok to the island of Flores was ideal, as it allowed me to visit lots of different places while still moving myself east the whole…

  • Lord of the Rings

    I’ve been accused of being a tad too negative with my posts, so this one comes at just the right time. Gili Trawangan, an island off the west coast of the island of Lombak, is perfection. It’s tiny, so you can walk around the whole thing in about 90 minutes, and the walk is on…

  • Eat (street food), Pray (the touts leave you alone), Love (rice paddies)

    Traveling a lot has ruined the allure of seeing cathedrals, temples, buddhas (no matter what position he’s in) & cultural performances for me, and interesting rock formations are about to be added to the list. However, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing rice paddies, especially when marbled with jungle foliage. Ubud (the…

  • I Kuta Bali how much I’m lovin’ it

    Australia is a great place: warm climate; warm people; and lots of fun and varied stuff to see & do. However, it just wasn’t doing it for me this time. One reason is that it’s surprisingly expensive. The $1 menu at McDonald’s (not that I went there a lot) is actually $2, and the cheapest…