Notes and curiosities
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 22 July 2008 | Views [320]
One of the things I've been considering on this trip is that of all the travel web sites in the world, the one I usually start with is ... Google.
Not Lonely Planet or Trip Advisor or World Nomads. These I use to plan our trip and I even use them when travelling, but I don't start with them.
I think when you are travelling you don't plan any more: you write about it, you photograph it, you email home, you might want to earn some money (?) but Google seems to pretty much the jumping off point for every other query you might have when you are actually on the road.
Now there is food for thought.
One of the things I haven't yet figured out is why the internet here in Indonesia seems to be so wayward and slow, wireless is almost non-existent and general internet access is expensive: about 1000Rps a minute ... 60,000 an hour (A$8.00).
Mobile coverage seems good, but for me doesn't seem to work very well on international roaming at least: caller ID's never come through so I don't know whose call I have missed, local calls were fine on Bali but didn't work on Lombok, International calls worked on Java and Bali but didn't work on Lombok, and SMS didn't work on Java or Bali but worked fine on Lombok.
Huh?
Tags: planning, google, sms, internet
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