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Thursday, June 14; 6/14/2012 07:46:00 PM

being on leave is such an exhilarating feeling

wanted to blog earlier but there are always tons of reasons not to
too lazy, too tired, don't want to stare at the computer screen after getting home from work, antivirus expired..etc

as the title of this post says,
being on leave is such an exhilarating feeling!
for the past few years that i've been working, i've never thought about work while on leave
this time was no exception
I'm back from my trip to jogya-bromo-bali!
I'm not going to post any photos here (go see my fb albums yourself ya..haha)
afterall if you do read my blog, you must be my friend on fb
this trip was the first time that we did not make any bookings for accomodation prior to the trip (except for the bali villa bought through groupon)
exciting!!

after this trip, i'm convinced that the time of the people in indonesia is elastic...
we were supposed to reach cemaro lawang from jogya by 5.30pm, but we reached at 11pm? (we started our journey att 8+ am or 9am btw..)
from cemaro lawang to denpasar, bali, we were supposed to reach by 7.30pm..but we reached at 11.00pm..we started our journey at 10am (or 11am denpasar time)
how can their estimation be so off...zzz so in actual fact, we spent 1 whole day travelling on the roads...

overall i feel that indonesia has a lot to offer in terms of tourism
if they could try to improve their infrastructure a little, specifically build more highways..it would be great!
the rides to cemaro lawang and bali were all via "small roads" and not via the expressways that we are used to.
However, if you are fan of road trips, whereby you pass by local villages and get to see the local sights and scenes, you would enjoy cross country travelling in indonesia.

overall, this was a very enjoyable trip! the people were warm and friendly (we didn't see/remember anyone giving us a black face even if we didn't buy from them)
this places that we visited had had its fair share of touts (becak! becak! kraton kraton!) and conmen (the kraton is closed for friday prayers go see n.o.u.v.i very nice art exhibition..utter bullshit)
but we were warned by our handy guidebook, the lonely planet, beforehand!
travelling to and in indonesia is really quite cheap! except for bali..bali is expensive when compared to the rest of indonesia..but is still relatively cheaper when compared with Singapore...going from jogya to bali, our jaws really dropped when we saw the prices of everything in bali...

and i'm quite pleased with how the pictures of bromo turned out..cos i couldn't really tell what i was shooting and i'm quite a lousy photographer and i was a bit rusty with the dslr...if i was better with the dslr, i'm sure my shots would have been more awesome..anyway for a noob like me, yays!
now i'm just going to enjoy the rest of my leave.... =)