Once we were finally free of the Bromo Volcano tour, Amanda and I got in a mini van to Yogyakarta in order to see the temple of Borobudur. We were told the driver would stop in two hours for lunch, so that should have been 1:30PM. At 3:30PM, Amanda leaned over and asked me, “Did […]
Amanda and I didn’t plan much for our time on Java besides Borobudur, so we needed something to do to break up the distance between Bali and Borobudur. We did some research and decided Bromo Volcano sounded interesting, and so began our crazy transportation day from Bali to Java.
The day started off easily enough. We got up around 6:30AM, showered, finished getting our bags packed, ate breakfast, checked out of our hotel in Seminyak, and then hailed a cab. We told the cab driver we needed to get to the Ubung bus station. We repeated it a few times, he repeated it back […]
Amanda and I knew we needed to get to the island of Java to see Borobudur, which meant traveling back through Bali after leaving the Gili Islands. We took a speed boat this time instead of the slow boat because we found a good deal that also included our transfer from the port in Bali […]
The guy who brought us to the horrible room in Senggigi also knew a guy who worked at a dive shop down the street. I tried to get my scuba diving certification last year but didn’t succeed, although I do enjoy snorkeling and Amanda dives, so we set up a dive/snorkel trip for the next […]
After researching our options for getting from Bali to Lombok, Amanda and I decided the price discrepancy between the slow ferry and the speed boat did not compensate for the time difference. The slow ferry took about three and a half hours, though it’s listed as taking four hours, while the speed boat takes about […]
One of the things Amanda and I did in Bali was sign up for a Balinese cooking class. There are several restaurants in Ubud that offer cooking courses but most of them book up early, so if you have a particular one in mind that you want to do, sign up ahead of time. We […]
After our crazy transportation day from Singapore to Bali, Amanda and I had three nights booked in Ubud, Bali, which is supposed to be the most tranquil, relaxing, and lush towns on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Our room at Nick’s Pension was basic but clean and inexpensive, and the property was a gorgeous setting of […]
As our time in Singapore came to an end, Amanda and I made our way to the airport to fly to Bali. We had already checked in online for our Air Asia flight and printed our tickets, but apparently we still needed to go to the Air Asia counter for document verification. Only then could we […]
The Singapore Night Safari is basically a zoo that is only open at night. The animals there are nocturnal, and most of them are not in cages. When I was in Singapore last March, I didn’t have time to make it to the safari due to poor planning on my part. But it sounded really […]