INDONESIA | Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011 | Views [1975] | Comments [2]
Determined to get a glimpse of all the aspects of Indonesia, Tami and I found ourselves mid-January in the over-populated (20 million people living in a city smaller than the ACT), over-polluted and under-public-transport-serviced capital of Indonesia, ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Sunday, 16 Jan 2011 | Views [966]
Our last two days in Medan, the honorary recipient of Lonely Planet's prestigious 'Worst City in the World' award (2009), were spent somewhat productively (if depressingly) by visiting two different orphanages, both largely home to children who lost ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011 | Views [591] | Comments [2]
Two weeks in Bali behind us and it was definitely time to get out of there and see a bit more of the rest of Indonesia... and to be honest, we were starting to miss people stopping us in the street to take photos. From Denpasar, we flew to Jakarta ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 28 Dec 2010 | Views [1041] | Comments [3]
It was with great excitement that we checked into our hotel in Seminyak, not because it was particularly fabulous but because it had air con and hot water, two old friends we were very happy to re-discover. The day we arrived was the same day we reunited ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Saturday, 18 Dec 2010 | Views [2423] | Comments [1]
The grey weather starting to get us down, we decided it was time to bail out of the Gili Islands. Undoubtedly a really nice place, we nonetheless agreed that we could hang out with drunk Irish people anywhere in the world and would probably be better ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Sunday, 12 Dec 2010 | Views [2466] | Comments [1]
the very lovely togean islands behind us, we spent a day in the chaos of kuta (downtown bali, for those not in the know) 'running errands', which involved getting massages, eating food that wasn't fish or rice (as great as they were, the togeans ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 7 Dec 2010 | Photo Gallery
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INDONESIA | Tuesday, 9 Nov 2010 | Views [865] | Comments [1]
with two semesters of first-year indonesian and my selamat pagi's seriously down pat, the next chapter in the secret diary of iona main is 8 weeks in indonesia. with flights to bali so cheap you almost save money, it seemed a golden opportunity to ... Read more >
