Here we are, after so much effort to give the blog a boost, which I hope was not in vain, I can finally tell about this famous trip of almost 3 weeks (18 days exactly) in Indonesia, more precisely in Java (central and eastern) then Bali.
Between the volcanoes and the rice paddies, the smiles and the welcome of its inhabitants, it's a trip where you come back with strong images and full of good memories (so much so that I wrote an article about it afterwards; Indonesia: a country that left its mark on me ).
The stay in brief:
A trip that could be summarized as 18 days/nights, divided as follows:
- 11 nights on Java including:
→ 7 in different hotels
→ 1 in a train
→ 1 straddling a lounge bar and a car (4x4) - 7 nights in Bali in 3 different hotels
As an aside, that's 36 showers (2 per day due to either the heat or the sweat from the long walks), including:
- Only 12 hot showers, and yes, you should know that hot water is rather a luxury here… (to be put in the context of the time, says the Roman from the future)
- 3 showers, half hot / half cold (meaning, it might have worked in the morning but not in the evening, or vice versa…)
- 18 cold showers
- 3 "no showers", either because of travel or because the shower was just too cold for me…
It was also a day without photos, which in my case is rare and noteworthy enough to be highlighted! It was also 6 days without rain … but only two with rain all day , our stay having taken place in the first half of April.
Our itinerary in Indonesia
This was our second "long" trip after our journey from South to North Vietnam. The route included the following stages:
1 Day: Arrives in Surabaya in the evening after 23pm
2 Day: Surabaya → Yogyakarta (by train)
3 Day: Yogyakarta → Borobudur
4 Day: Borobudur
5 Day: Borobudur → Wonosobo (by bus)
6 Day: Wonosobo → Dieng Plateau
7 Day: Dieng Plateau → Yogyakarta
8 day: Yogyakarta → Prambanan →Yogyakarta
9 Day: Yogyakarta → Malang (by night train)
10 Day: Malang (rest)
11 Day: Malang -> Bromo -> Bondowoso (just a stop for the night)
12 Day: Ijen → Bali via Ketapang
13 Day: Bali -> Ubud
Days 14-16: Bali
Day 15: Bali
Day 16: Bali -> Jimbaran
Day 17: Bali
Day 18: Bali
So we were leaving in the middle of the afternoon at the beginning of April, which meant I would miss the wonderful Thai New Year celebration that is Songkran… but I would quickly forget this detail because of what I would experience during this stay.
Which gives the following route for the island of Java:
The departure in photos
