http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW A BootsnAll Travel Blog Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nearly six weeks after arriving in Bali, still I find myself in Ubud - the cultural center of Bali, aptly located in the central region and heart of the island. I realize that a posting from travels - experiences - is long overdue, so until I sit down and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/images-from-bali.html What a terrible motivation to update this travel blog. It makes the previous draft that I had been working on yesterday seem incredibly insignificant and trivial...I had just spent the end of last week in Amed, a rugged beach town on the northeast coast of Bali and returned ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/15.html Oh, the stars in Indonesia are plentiful and breathtaking....I've never seen the Milky Way so vibrant before! I left Solo on Tuesday, along with a Dutch couple, a French couple and girl from Germany. Together we were headed towards Mount Bromo Tengger National Park, in the middle of East Java, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/bromo-and-ijen.html The rest of my time in Solo was cultural and special, largely in part due to my many new and hospitable friends in Solo (and from Bali!) who introduced me further to Javanese culture and day to day life in Solo. Ajip had been developing a new variation on ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/more-about-solo.html View of Gunung Merapi from Borobudur in Yogyakarta.... Monday evening saw me, contentedly full from a dinner of nasi liwet, packed up with water, food and a strong flashlight in the back of a taxi heading up to the small village of Selo, where I would start my climb of Gunung ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/volcanoes-and-temples.html ..I'm uploading pictures. Computer facilities aren't the greatest, and I just spent the past hour reviewing HTML skills, so bear with me. Similar to the cultural focus of Yogyakarta, Solo has a plethora of musical instrument crafters, wooden and leather puppet makers, batik producers, as well as weekly performances ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/slowly-but-surely.html Enroute to Yogyakarta..... Well once again I've had three consecutive days when I've woken up with every intention to move on, and someone or something changes my plans. I *think* today is the day, though, and I'm heading to Solo - just an hour by train. Arrived in Yogyakarta ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/yogyahhhhhh.html Well, I'd originally thought my trip to Pangandaran -impossible to say in true Indonesian accent, by the way- was going to be a quiet day or so after the long day traveling across the Puncak Pass, but somehow it has turned into a six day vacation....Between hiking in the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/beach-bum.html What does it mean if I'm already losing track of days?..... I spent the rest of Monday exploring Bogor, including their esteemed Botanical Gardens - beautiful. Monday night was uneventful, except for brief entertainment from a VERY drunk VERY red faced German man who staggered into the hotel around 11pm. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/2.html Oooh, where to start - I've been here two days and it already feels alot longer! Here's my attempt at the Cliffnotes version: Staying over in Singapore was KEY to my sanity - I woke up with a clear head, almost completely on this time zone, showered and boarded the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/GW/4.html