Indonesia

I know I havent even had the time to blog much about my travels.. or as much as I would like..

The last week has been eye opening. For the first time I went backpacking. Rossana and I went from place to place without much prior planning living day by day, only getting accomodation on arrival to our newtown or city. It was by no means an easy task. We under estimated Jogja and Pangandaran, when we got there all the places we asked were fully booked...

I think my highlights were seeing Borobudur,taking the public bus to get there! riding a motorbike with rossana as my pillion( is that even how its spelled?), hiking and swiming in green canyon! learning surfing on the pangandaran beach... eating by the road side in Yogyakarta... there are just too many things...

What made it more special was that we did not plan where to go or what todo till the day itself... how everything fell into place so nicely. And most of all, Rossana n I decided against taking day tours and instead getting to each place ourselves.. This unwittingly led us to a lot of plunders, but also plenty of serendipidious memories, amazing finds and a tonne of money saved!

Like this... we planned to go to borodudur on day 3... we woke up late and after breakfast walked over to the train station to buy tickets to get to pangadaran the following day.. only to find out that the tickets were SOLD OUT! so we opted for bus tickets instead and rushed back to out rooms to check out.. and finally were off to borodudor.. we crammed up on the public bus to the bus terminal to take another bus to borodudor.. mind you that from here on out.. every single bus trip we needed to haggle for a cheaper fare... so getting off the bus we needed to fend out becak driver and figure our way a 500m walk to the entrance of the temple... and that is just too Borobudur.. wait till you hear about getting to Pramanan after that we took a total 6 buses to reach there...!!

i'll tell you more about it soon...