March 03, 2005
When the rains come (or, is rain the sweetest scent of all?)
Yogyakarta, Bladok Losmen, 27 Feb 2005 Nothing is better than the feel of hard, fresh rain after unbearable tropical heat. Finally, after we return from 5 hours at Borobodur (left 5am, returned 10am), the rains break the heavy, stifling heat....Read this update
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Train out of Jakarta: fragments from my mind
The city spreads out below us, as we're travelling on a high train track. Then the line dips down, and we're running just a fingertip away from shanties where people's difficult lives play out right along the train-tracks. Piles of...Read this update
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February 28, 2005
Bali, where paradise comes with a side-serving of the Daily Tele
Welcome to Bali! We've been in the taxi from the airport for perhaps five minutes, and our cabbie slows as we approach a set of stoplights. As is common in all Indonesia, a young guy is weaving his way through...Read this update
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February 27, 2005
Jakarta's Cafe Batavia: Where high camp meets high tea
We’re sitting in the opulent recesses of Cafe Batavia, deep in Jakarta’s old Dutch colonial quarter. Not much remains of the colonial legacy in this defiantly modern city, but this café-cum-bar-cum-time-warp is a delectable exception. A and I are discussing...Read this update
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February 26, 2005
Visual overload and folkloric excesses
Indonesia: this country is beautiful; sumptuous; stunning. It's one of those places where you wonder how so much raw physical beauty got concentrated in the one spot on earth. If you haven't been here, you should come. If you have,...Read this update
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First impressions dashed, and nothing is as it seems
Maybe it was the weirdness we experienced at the airport when we arrived, or maybe it was just my preconceived idea that all Indonesians were going to regard us as ‘Ugly Australians’ and treat us accordingly, but ever since we...Read this update
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February 25, 2005
Two Australians arrive in Jakarta
Our arrival in Jakarta last night couldn't have offered a greater contrast from our final interactions in S'pore if we'd tried. This was how it happened ... As we checked our luggage in for our Cathay flight to Jakarta, the...Read this update
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