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The second half of October and first two weeks of November were spent in Indonesia together with my friends from the Philippines who individually flew from Manila to Yogyakarta (via KL and the other one via Jakarta). It was my first time in Indonesia and I wasn’t really expecting that much, I was just hoping [...]
Kuta is one of the famous backpacker’s circuit in the 80′s together with Kathmandu and Khao San. A lot of backpackers pass thru Kuta en route to other destinations in Bali such as Ubud, Lovina and others. After enjoying a couple of decades of popularity among backpackers, Kuta is now a developed beach side property [...]
We hired a car to be able to visit various places of interest in Bali instead of going there on our own. We figured that this might be cheaper considering that the price of taxi to Kuta from Ubud is already around 200,000 Rupiah. We struck a deal with the driver to take us to [...]
One of the most popular tourist activities in Ubud is to visit the Sacred Monkey Forest. The Sacred Monkey Forest is a small patch of land that remained lush with vegetation and is said to be the home of 115 species of trees. Aside from the local flora, there’s also a lot of monkeys or [...]
We took a package tour from Yogyakarta (via Mt. Bromo) to Bali to be able to save time since we’re travelling with our friends who were on vacation. We figured that it would be more convenient with them if we didn’t DIY the whole trip. There are lots of travel agencies in Gang I and [...]
There are a variety of ways on how to go to Bali from Yogyakarta. You could commute to Probolinggo and take the ferry to Bali or alternatively you could book a package thru one of the travel agencies in Yogyakarta which I find very convenient. Average cost that I saw was around 230-250,000 Rupiah. Alternatively, [...]
This is my first time in Indonesia and I didn’t know what to expect when I landed to Jakarta from Kota Kinabalu last October 16. We waited in the airport for approximately eight hours for our flight to Yogyakarta and what we did was stayed in the airport observing everything that’s going on. We landed [...]
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