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May 10 2003 A Long Flight |
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Didn't sleep much but made it to the airport at 2:30 A.M. Got checked in, paid the FJ$30 exit fee and flew to Auckland arriving at 7:30, then I had a six hour layover before catching the 1:30 P.M. flight to Brisbane where I had to get off the |
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May 11 2003 Ahh, Life Doesn't Get Better Than That! |
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Slept in late but got up in the morning to have anther walk around. A short way down the road I found another hotel, the Aquarius which had very nice rooms for RP135k but they readily dropped a nominal amount to RP130k. This beat the hell out of RP200k |
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May 12 2003 The Four Woman Massage Scam |
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Woke up rather early and went for a walk, I found a little hole in the wall used book store that had relatively inexpensive books and purchased an used Lonely Planet Indonesia for Rp80k. It was the latest edition from the year 2000 so it was pretty out |
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May 13 2003 Ubud and the Monkey Forest |
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The idea of going to Jakarta and seeing the more of Indonesia was growing on me but I was still undecided so I decided to punt. I figured I would see a bit of more Bali instead and go check out Ubud a small town in the central mountains and |
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May 15 2003 Punting in Kuta |
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I decided to go check out some more of Indonesia so after breakfast I took a bit of a walk to the Garuda office in Kuta which was about a forty minute amble. There I saw they had a special of RP650k one way for flights between Bali and Jakarta. |
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May 16 2003 On to Jakarta |
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Got up, had the free breakfast and checked out. Caught a RP9k cab to the airport and caught my flight without any trouble. The flight was uneventful and they served another meal. Garuda food is not bad for airline TV dinners. There was some sort of seafood |
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May 17 2003 Feeling Better While Being A Mall Rat |
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It was another boiling hot day and I just didn't get the willpower up to go walking around so I went to another mall, the Pasaraya. There I spent a good portion of the day in the food court catching up on my writing. That and a stop at |
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May 18 2003 Mini Indonesia |
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I figured I should definitely see more of Jakarta than just the malls so I headed out to the Mini Indonesia Indah Park. A rather expensive RP30k taxi ride later I was dropped off at the huge 100 hectare park. Mini Indonesia is made up of a large number |
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May 19 2003 Of Becak and Batik |
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Got up and checked out of the hotel by eight and caught a taxi to Gambir to get to my nine A.M. train. I splurged a bit and paid RP160k for a seat on a fancy executif train. Then I went up to the platform and waited an |
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May 20 2003 The Water Palace |
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Got up and actually got out the door at a decent time to do some sightseeing. I had not really done a recon of my neighborhood so I decided to walk towards the heart of town, the Sultan's palace, known as the Kranton. After brushing off numerous continuous offers |
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May 21 2003 Borodubur |
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urMy agenda for the day was to go to Borodubur, Indonesia's equivalent of Angkor Wat. It lay 42km from Yogoykarta and it is a huge Buddhist temple built sometime between 750-850 A.D. However the site was poorly chosen because it was in use for only 80 years until a |
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May 22 2003 The Ramayana Ballet |
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I had pretty much exhausted the main attractions of Yogoyakarta so I booked a bus leaving the next day to Mt. Bromo and then on back to Bali for RP250k. This would be a two day one night trip and the cost of the one night hotel was included so |
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May 23 2003 The Long Bus Ride to Mt. Bromo |
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The bus picked me up at the proper hour of nine so I had plenty of time to pack and have breakfast. Although the itinerary had promised an air conditioned minibus what showed up was an older non-air-conditioned minibus. Fortunately the day was not too hot and there was |
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May 24 2003 Standing on a LIVE Volcano! |
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Managed to get up at 3:45 in order to meet the jeep which picked me up at 4:00. I had laid out every piece of warm clothes I had before I went to sleep so it was easy to just toss them all on. I had lost my big |
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May 25 2003 Surfing in Bali |
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We woke up around nine feeling much refreshed. Since I was pretty much a regular at the Aquarius now I had no trouble to convince them act as if we checked in that morning instead of charging us for an extra night. Since we had just officially checked in |
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May 26 2003 The Last Relaxing Day in Bali |
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I had promised to meet Sarah at the beach at noon but overslept and didn't wake up until 12:30. Ooops. That is what happens when start reading a book at midnight. By the time I got to the beach she had gone to lunch and was nowhere to |
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