First impressions, cool (compared to India) green, wet (well the ground is) clean, less English around and people seem more helpful, but still out to grab your custom. We arrived in Surabaya on Thursday 19th May (my half birthday hehe) and found a hotel (again from the guide book) called Sparkling backpackers in Surabaya, Java. (which I got bitten alive from bed bugs!) we had a nap coz the traveling for 17hours had taken it out of us. We went out to the local train station and bought tickets for the next day to Jogjakarta (where a man shook our hands but made some gesture to other men and they all laughed, not sure how to read that!) and then went for dinner at a self service Asian restaurant we had a grill and a saucepan
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