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Bogor the green side!
28/03/2013 18:25
After the historical part it was time to discover the green side! We started a long walk in the botanical gardens. We walked for about 2 hours and my feet were hurting a lot but the beauty of the gardens made me forget my pain!
Our guide told us that the botanical gardens are one of the...
Bogor the historical side
28/03/2013 14:34
We started our day with a hearty breakfast at our hostel.
Today’s plans were visiting Borgor, accompanied by a guide.
Bogor is situated 54kilometers South of Jakarta. It is located near the main road from Jakarta to Bandung. Next to it you find the railway line Jakarta-Bandoeng that still has the...
Padang and Jakarta
27/03/2013 10:20
It was 9 AM when our alarm clocks went off. We took breakfast, packed our bags and left together with our guide named Sukarno.
First stop of the day was Anai Valley where we saw a waterfall that leads to Padang. Actually it quite disappointed me because I thought it would be more...
Indonesia: Bukittinggi
26/03/2013 20:53
After a marvellous time at Samosir Island we travelled back to the mainland by ferry. Afterwards we drove towards Sipirok. We halted several times during our drive to visit a pineapple plantation and a rice-field. We saw women working these fields. They even came to talk to us and showed us how...
Indonesia
25/03/2013 20:56
After an eye-opening experience in East Timor, we headed for the Samosir Island.
Our first stop was Berastagi, a small town which economy mostly depends on tourists. Berastagi is 2 hours by bus from Medan. The main attractions were the two stratovolcanoes and we were in for some climbing.
What are...
Culture in East Timor
24/03/2013 23:10
After a lazy but well deserved day, we wanted to do something cultural. We didn’t know anything about the culture of the country, so we decide to learn more about the nation’s culture.
We enjoyed visiting the places with our guide, because he knew more interesting things than the usual guide...
The Districts of East Timor
24/03/2013 14:22
The Districts of East Timor
In this journal, we already talked about the different places of East Timor we have already seen. We've been to, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful places this world has to offer. I've been, several times, completely mesmorised by the simplicity and...
Boattrip to Atauro island!
21/03/2013 19:37
Yesterday we’ve noticed that there was an island a couple of kilometers away from Dili.
We decided to look that up this morning when we had breakfast.
In a tourist brochure available at our hotel we saw that this island is 30 kilometers away from Timor.
The island isn’t very big it is...
Where's the beach?
20/03/2013 22:46
After visiting Maubisse’s plantations and having this huge jet-lag we thought it would be a good idea if we just hung out for one day at the beach. So we slept until 11 am, packed our beach bags, took a brunch and left.
At our hostel's reception we saw an advertisement to hire a Vespa for one day....
East Timor and it's coffee
19/03/2013 16:26
During our bus trip we noticed the many coffee plantations. Coffee seems to be East Timor's most important export good since their colonial period with Portugal. Coffee is so important that it counts for 80% of the total export. Nevertheless a lot of these important economic coffee planations were...
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