We had planned to spend a week in Sumatra with Antonella, a good friend of Vs from Germany that lives in Madrid and her friend Altera from Cologne. To ensure we had enough clean clothes for the time, we went to the laundry in Medan in the morning where we had to go through a lengthy process of weighing, counting and naming our pieces of wash to make sure both […]

Having read about the beauty of the jungles in Kalimantan on Borneo, the world third-largest island, we decided we had to go there and see for ouselves. A trek in Borneo seemed a bit too challenging for us, so we decided to go by water instead. Our 3-day Mahakam river tour started in Samarinda, where our guide picked us up by car and took us past lush rainforest and huge […]

Nach Jakarta ging es mit dem Zug nach Bandung, wo wir für ein paar Tage einen Indonesischen Freund von S besuchten. Diese Stadt gilt als Shopping -Mekka unter den Indonesiern, die am Wochenende aus allen Himmelsrichtungen angefahren kommen, um ihr Geld in den unzähligen Marken-Outlets zu verprassen. Gut, dass S’s Freund kein Shoppingfan sondern ein echter „Foodie“ wie S ist. So hat er uns vorbei an all den glitzernden Einkaufszentren […]