 | Invited to Cremation Ceremony
2004-06-17, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today I met with Wayan the Manager of the Puri Gong Hotel, he remembered me well and was willing to work out a deal on the price of my room. We also had a nice long conversation about the importance o... |
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 | Sleepless in Bali
2004-06-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I’m now sitting on my porch at 6:00 am writing this I have been awake for several hours because I went to sleep too early last night. The roosters are crowing, the bats are flying their morning breakf... |
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 | If I Could Bottle What I Can't Capture in Photos
2004-06-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | On my flight to Denpassar I sat next to a nice gentleman named Jon from the town of Solo, on the island of Java, Indonesia. Jon told me all about the sights out the window and also about some of the r... |
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 | Staying with a friend in Jakarta
2004-06-14, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | After clearing customs, getting my visa, and our bags we met Marcia’s maid and family driver at the airport. They took us to Marcia’s vacation home in Jakarta. It was lovely filled with beautiful wood... |
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 | Go and experience Amed
2003-12-12, Bali, Indonesia. By: socrates | | Almost everybody who goes to Bali will visit and stay in the high tourist areas like Kuta and Ubud. There are many nice places to visit and have a look around but the best place in my recent visit was... |
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 | Borobudur like no other
2003-07-16, Jogyakarta, Indonesia. By: vic | | It is 5 o clock in the morning. The central Java plain lies silent in the tropical night, the palm trees motionless. Above, unfamiliar galaxies wheel, and the encircling volcanoes are visible only as ... |
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 | the sad return
2002-02-11, way home, Indonesia. By: lomotravel | | our time was up, flights to india, buses and ferries and trains and bemos and taxis and tuk tuks to catch... gili trawangan had been a faithful friend whom we all kissed goodbye before heading out on ... |
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| the gili islands, lombok
2002-02-10, lombok, Indonesia. By: lomotravel | | the ferry to lombok was supposed to take anywhere from 4-7 hours. we boarded, found seats, thought we would have a smooth and uneventful crossing, until we realised there was a karaoke machine onboard... |
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| bali... hell
2002-02-02, bali, Indonesia. By: lomotravel | | we reached gilimanuk late afternoon, and drove on from there to denpasar. the bus journey was through beautiful nature, so lush and full. arriving in denpasar late, we met a dutch couple who were head... |
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| jakarta and the ferries
2002-01-20, indonesia, Indonesia. By: lomotravel | | the speed boat went from the pier to batam, we then crossed the island by taxi and ended up reaching the next small boat as it was actually leaving, but they let us jump on, and we sped for about 20 m... |
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| you want transport, special price for you
2003-01-13, Sanur, Indonesia. By: supafitch | | Well this is our 6th day in Bali and we have had some experiences so many I don’t have enough time to write about them all. I will list the highlights with a bit of detail that really sticks out for m... |
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 | The mountain trek
2002-10-07, Ubud, Indonesia. By: richard | | One of the best bits about the time we had in Ubud (apart from getting some bargains at the market - I can't believe the prices they start at when haggling...) was when we went on a day trip to trek u... |
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 | Getting away from it all...(Pt. 1)
2002-10-06, Bali, Indonesia. By: richard | | Following the trip to Hong kong, Clare and I caught a flight down to Bali with Cathay. Must admit, I'd heard lots of good things about them, but they managed to screw up our booking so Clare and I wer... |
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 | Island Hopping to Bali
2002-08-23, Ubud, Indonesia. By: djsproule | | Well, it’s been a very busy couple of weeks since making our journey west from Flores to Lombok. Our first order of business was to find a relaxing beach location for a couple of days. We checked in... |
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| Volcanoes, Beaches & Buses
2002-08-07, Flores, Indonesia. By: djsproule | | We arrived in Bali, Indonesia on July 25, and despite all warnings on the contrary, we visited Kuta Beach. Kuta is a sprawl of surfshops, hotels, restaurants (McDonald’s and KFC included), and a beau... |
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 | From Indonesia to China
2002-06-13, Bali, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I hadn’t meant to stay in Ubud for my last five days but caught up in the welcome homey feeling; every time I would arrive back the staff (Spiderman, Nyoman, Wayan, and Kracho would run to greet me “S... |
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 | Gilli Trawangan Off the Coast of Lombok
2002-06-09, Lombok, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I took a shuttle bus from Ubud to the east coast and then a four-hour ferryboat to the island of Lombok. Immediately different than Bali… gone were the numerous Hindu temples, people making offerings ... |
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 | Monkeys, monkeys, everywhere the monkeys
2002-06-13, Bali, Indonesia. By: etienne | | (Etienne)Since we email these updates then paste them in here, we figured we would send people reminders to check the journal to save on time, since the last thing we want to do is sit in front of com... |
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| Bali part 2
2002-06-12, Bali, Indonesia. By: etienne | | Today we went on a sailing trip (first time for both of us), we sailed to an island about 2 1/2 hours away from Bali on a 71ft sail boat with only 2 other people!. We got to do some snorkeling, saw lo... |
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| Hi from Bali
2002-06-11, Bali, Indonesia. By: etienne | | Hello from the beautiful island of BALI!!
(Shalini) Hi everyone, we flew in yesterday after a day of travelling from Hong Kong and were greeting by great weather! After checking in we headed stra... |
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| Sven and Spiders
2002-06-04, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I got talking to another guest Sven… a skinny Antonio Bandaras look alike… we ended up going to dinner together and then to a Jazz Bar. We closed it down and walked back home. When I got back to my ro... |
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