I arrived in Singapore early in the day and had a few things planned on this trip, having been here a number of times before I have seen most of the sites. I hadnt visited Changi Prison or the Jurong bird park so they were high on my to do list. I had already checked my bag in for the flight home so I took a cab straight from the airport to the Changi Museum, eventually the cabbie found it and I visited a place that my my uncle endured for much of WW2, I found the place quiet poignant and [View Full Entry]

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I woke up early again this morning the call to preyer is unforgiving when it comes to sleeping, I had a quick breakfast before heading to the Tuku train station for my 7 hour ride to Jakarta. The Executive trains are quite comfortable and serve a small lunch and tea through out the trip. I had the fortune to be seated next to a Dutch guy, I think I like the dutch the most of the Europeans I have met, they seem more out going then most. Anyway we proceeded to drink the bar dry (they only had for 4 cans [View Full Entry]

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Woke up with the call to prayer at 4.30am which was ok because my tour was off at 5am, the minivan turned up I crawled in and went to sleep. We arrived at Borobudor at about 6.30 as the sun began to rise, and were promptly jumped on by touts, they are really bad, its difficult not to be rude to them. I was in a good mood I was about to behold a wonder and I was not disappointed in the least, it was a truly amazing site. As you can see from the pictures the temple has thousands of [View Full Entry]

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It's been a long day I arrived here at 8.30am local time that's 2 and half hours behind Adelaide and headed straight off to the Puri Mangku Negaran and Kraton Surakarta they were worth a look the Kraton is quite large and is the residence of the king of Solo, and had a lot of old interesting memorabilia. Then it was off on a 6 hour bike ride (pinion) to check out some old Hindu temples, specifically Candi Sukuh and Candi Ceto, they were both really worth the effort, they looked like something the Maya built. The problem was that the [View Full Entry]

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Its true and Kuching is totally cat orientated, they have a Museum of Cats and cat statues all over the place. This city is really attractive probably more so then KK, I am amazed as most Asian cities just arent. On arrival from the airport I went wandering around for quite a while, I was trying to find a Lonely Planet book for Indonesia as I go there in a few days and I wanted to go to Mcdonalds, I have never been a big fan of Asian food and I am getting sick of chicken and rice. Although saying that [View Full Entry]

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This morning I am being picked up and driven by mini bus through the palm oil plantations to a lodge on the Kinabatangan River. This was my first road trip in Borneo and the countryside is not what I expected, the deep jungles and the bumpy little roads of my imagination are no more, instead there where miles and miles of palm oil plantations or scorched land. After a long trip we arrived on the banks of the river and were transported across in long boats, there are about a dozen other people all with companions or partners, hence my paying [View Full Entry]

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Kota Kinabalu is a pleasant and attractive city, which in total I spent about three days in, and enjoyed every bit of it. The first time however I was in from the Phillipines in the evening and gone by mid day the next day, still that was long enough to acquire a hang over, from two many beers with an English and a Hungarian lad I met at the hostel, still it was nice to be around other travellers again after 3 weeks with only myself to talk too. The hostel was ok I tend to avoid hostels unless I [View Full Entry]

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Everytime I try to write this blog a computer crashes on me. I left Siquijor Island at about 8 the guy who I did the tour with picked me up and dropped me on the jetty roughly an hour later I was on the dock in Dumaguette buying a ticket to Cebu via Bohol, I had to wait a while so I went and bought some postcards, had some lunch etc, before heading back to the dock. I splurged a little and got a first class ticket which gave me the whole section to myself which was pleasant, it was just [View Full Entry]

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I had a pretty relaxed day yesterday, read a book watched some TV and wandered around Dumaguete, the Cathedral and the area around Quezon Park are scenic and the Promenade is really attractive. I bought a book by Anne Rice I should have known better, women authors always ruin things by trying to write in love and sex scenes, this one was between a bodyless spirit and a dying woman, I probably wont bother finishing it now. This morning I caught a boat to Siquijor Island there are supposed to be witches here although I am pretty sure I havent [View Full Entry]

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I have recieved a pretty apt comment that I should chill and take it easy for a few days well I am doing that here in Boracay but I hate to sit still for too long as travel here is extremely time intensive and my time is running out. Three weeks is nowhere near enough to get to just the major sights. Yesterday I caught a trike at 7am to the Jeepney pick up point then a few hours later a mini bus then after another 2 or 3 hours I arrived Roxas Port to be told the ferry had [View Full Entry]

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