Hi there to all of you bobsters rockin' the boat..
Just a bit South of the Equator things are heating up profoundly in Yokyakarta where yours truly made his aquaintence just a couple of days ago.
Near to the easygoing town that has only 10% of Jakarta's smog and a fragment of its inhabitants is the world famous Borobudur to be found, a truly and tremendously fascinating Buddhist temple built ages ago. Going there for sunrise wasn't actually neccesary though, because the site only opened when the sun was already up, and rainy clouds obscured it anyway...
The switch from the S-E Asias mainland to Indonesia hasn't been too easy. I expected bad facilities in the former and good facilities in the latter, but oh what a shame, it turned out to be entirely opposite, and, in Indonesia it's the rainy season too.
But not all things have been bad. The encounter with orang utangs and the wildly crying gibbons was amaaaaaaaizing, and the vulcanolake toba and the evening flight to Bali provided great views. As for the train from Jakarta to Yokya: if it werent for the neatly lined banana trees flanking the endless green patches of rices fields till the horizon I would have believed to be in one of the Netherland's more empty provinces.
And the best is yet to come! I'll hit the ol' dusty trail towards Bali, and after that: Malaysia! So much to see and so little time it makes you wanna travel forever (did anyone mention money?)
I'll finish today with a well ment 'selamat tinggal' for those who stay and 'salamat jalan' for those who go, and in between youll have to imagine my happy face: goodbye!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment