Bangsal Harbour I took a cidomo for 5000rupiah instead walking to terminal where perama shuttle bus will pick us. There were 4 adults, backpacks, 1 fat kid and the driver on the cart. I’m not extreme about animal welfare but for that 1 km I never felt so guilty to a horse before. Before the bus came I sat on a warung and had a tea. Talked a little to the old couple who run it. Then the wife said “I think I saw you before.” I told her that I went 2 years ago, and she did really remember me. [View Full Entry]

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21st May 2009 Bogor, 10am “Could I have a taxi to pick me up at Mataram airport?” I asked on the phone with Lombok Express Taxi. Then they explained that taxi with meter cant go in at the airport, so they asked my number and told me to wait in front of the airport. After I did they text me the taxi id that’ll pick me up. The flight wasn’t delayed, so glad that i wont be late to get Bangsal Harbour. Mataram, 2pm When I turned on my cellphone I already got a text from the taxi driver. I walked [View Full Entry]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU7FPtvlGpg [View Full Entry]

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First time I went to Gili Trawangan when I first visited Lombok to see my dad who was working there. I was 17 years old. Went with my parents to the island we didn’t even stay there. In that short time I realized how much I like it and I must go back there. Since that I regularly went to the Gilis. Once a year, once in two years, everytime I do, they will remember me. The girl from Taman Mini, that’s how they called me. Because I lived near Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, the place that local people of Lombok [View Full Entry]

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4 hours car ride back to Medan. At Medan we took this shuttle bus service, Raja Taxi. 70K to get Lake Toba. It was very promising, they have good cars with air conditioner, they promised the 4 hours the longest to get Toba. It turned out like this: 2 hours they went around and around Medan picking up other passengers. They packed the car more than its capacity. At 3 pm suddenly the car stopped at the restaurant. The driver said he wants to have lunch first. We told him we need to catch the ferry at 6 pm. He yelled [View Full Entry]

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This Blog is dedicated for Jaya from Jungle Lodge. We took motorbikes ride to get this place from Bukit Lawang, it was (I’m not exaggerating) an off-road tandem trip. I still not sure how they consider to make a service of this. If I have the best motorbike in the world, I still wouldn’t do it for 200,000 rupiah. Togo, the guy who took me, he was a really good motorbike driver. I asked him how the road could be this bad, he answered “Too many corruptions around.” That’s where we started to talk about Indonesian politics. Between rocks, dirts and [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at Medan airport on lunch time, after some talks and bargain we managed to get a taxi to Bukit Lawang. It was a 4 hours trip, the road wasn’t smooth. Too many palm oil plantations as well. In the middle of the trip there was suddenly a motorbike stopped the taxi and one guy jumped in the car. He introduced himself, Pak Ren, as the driver’s friend who works at Bukit Lawang. He was asking about where I would stay at Bukit Lawang, and what I want to do there. I really wasn’t comfortable and kind of ignore him [View Full Entry]

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My best friend been booking me for a getaway trip this holiday. We were planning to go to Lombok but its impossible to get tickets in such a short time. And family matters always come around Christmas too. So I suggest to go to this place ive been checking on internet and been wanting to go to. It’s at south part of West Java. So we did a road trip for 3 hours from Sentul to get the Pelabuhan Ratu. The beach is favorite for surfers. High tide Indian Ocean not a kind of beach to swim. But we just want [View Full Entry]

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Today Om Anis took me on the back of his motorbike to go around the villages and landscapes around Sumba. We stopped by at three points to see the potential area for the next office we’re going to build. The last one was the most likely it’s gonna be. Biggest and closer to every other institutions who are working with us. There’s a catholic cave behind it, They painted Mother Mary and Jesus in front of it. Not the best paintings, but I’m sure they try their best. Sumbanese put the family tombs in the middle of family houses complex. On [View Full Entry]

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Our office at Sumba is the coolest since it has a hut on the backyard, where you can lay around and reach mangoes from the tree beside it. I spent the next morning chatting with the Sumba staff here while we pick peel and eat the mangoes. The team leader and awareness officer from Flores office also came to Sumba to attend the wedding as well. They told me so many stories about Flores makes me want to go to Labuan Bajo soooo bad! Crossing my fingers to next year. The people at the office called me to run out sometimes [View Full Entry]

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