Month: March 2018

The night ends at 11:30. In com­ple­te der­an­ge­ment I search for my things and try to men­tal­ly prepa­re mys­elf for the stre­nuous night hike that awaits us today. That Ijen isn’t a pie­ce of cake, I alre­a­dy know that much. I’m actual­ly ner­vous and afraid of get­ting back to the start­ing point alive.

At 3:30 am the night is over, becau­se appar­ent­ly the­re are mos­ques in all 4 direc­tions and we now get sound in 4D for 30 minu­tes. At 4:30 am I got over the shock and for­t­u­na­te­ly I can fall asleep again. 3 hours later I wake up hun­gry and in a good mood, today a relaxed

At 2:30 a.m. the wake-up ser­vice comes in the form of Adi and a Jeep dri­ver ham­me­ring at our door. Actual­ly we had an appoint­ment for 3:00 o’clock, but may­be some­thing got lost bet­ween the Indo­ne­si­an – Eng­lish trans­la­ti­on. May­be they just enjoy waking us up early.

As if

Today we take the train from Yogyar­ta to Sura­ba­ya. We have boo­ked exe­cu­ti­ve class, becau­se with a 5 hour dri­ve and a rather exhaus­ting tour, which awaits us on East Java, we still need some com­fort. The ride is quiet and rela­xed and we indul­ge in our favourite

The mor­ning starts as hoped at the cheese buf­fet, the­re are real Kiri cream cheese, real Gou­da in one pie­ce and other cheese and I real­ly have to pull mys­elf tog­e­ther to not smugg­le the who­le pie­ce of Gou­da under my T‑shirt out of the break­fast room. Ins­tead Vero­ni­ca and

Now we have 3 hours to dri­ve to Dieng Pla­teau, an acti­ve vol­ca­no with a sulp­hur lake. After the effort in the mor­ning it’s time to plun­der the break­fast box and I can’t get out of the ama­ze­ment. The­re are milk rolls and real Kiri cream cheese. I could cry with joy! Cheese!

After ano­ther 30 minu­tes we reach Boro­bu­dur, the beau­tiful Bud­dhist temp­le, which was built 9,000 after Christ. In the mean­ti­me it was com­ple­te­ly over­grown and has been acces­si­ble again sin­ce the 1960s. Here, too, we have to pay ent­rance fees. This time we meet