Sunrise over Borobudur
At 3:30 am the alarm clock rings, much too early to get out of bed under normal circumstances. Luckily we already have practice in getting up early, because I remember very vividly the speaker of the mosque, which hung directly in front of our room.
Thank God someone is
Business class to Yogyakarta
Since we don’t want to do any experiments on the previous train ride, this time we book the business class and are curious what to expect. Before we can get started, however, we cause some uncertainty among the hotel staff with the driver ordered. Our train leaves Sidajera
Pandangaran National Park
Since we have not had enough of jungle yet, we decide in the afternoon for a hike through the national park of Pandangaran. If you like, you can also hike here for 8 hours and search the rainforest for animals. But since we are still a little bit taken along from the last
A bath in the Jade River
A bath in the open water is generally not mine. Eventually, the white shark or the next crocodile can lurk at every rock, which is just waiting to eat me with the next haps. Already in the bathtub, which for me also belongs to the category „open water“, I discovered a
Exploration in Pandangaran
At 8 o’clock we are picked up by our guide with the mopeds. Because driving a moped is also not one of my strengths, I already decided the evening before that I will not drive myself at all, but sit on the back. As already mentioned, you just need someone to blame for
Banjar, the centre of madness
The station in Banjar is almost tiny and since we don’t know exactly how to go on, we feel like a one-legged man at dance competition. But as it always is in Asia, it doesn’t take long until a resourceful businessman has spotted us. It’s not like four loaded Europeans are easy to miss.
Via train from the city to the beach
Today our journey takes us from Bandung to Pandangaran to the coast. We have to take the train from Bandung to Banjar and from there we drive another 90 kilometres south to Pandangaran. We don’t know exactly how this will work yet, but we want to be surprised. Things always