A short and sweet post from North West Bali, and alone time with Kris (hi Kris!) I’ve never been to the north coast, and since we came over land from Java and arrived in the evening, spent 2 or 3 hours hoping a bus would fill up and take us somewhere (which it didn’t so […]
Land of potatoes and volcanoes. So it turns out that Java only really starts getting interested once you hit the mountains. A few people had recommended I check out Dieng, but nobody really seemed to know much about it. It was pretty much the best surprise of the whole trip. The whole area was stunning. […]
BATIK! So I’m pretty much a lost cause. As one of my travel buddies this trip put it – buying batik is a slippery slope. Seriously. You walk into a batik shop never thinking you’d have any reason to need some of the stuff, but it’s almost impossible to leave empty-handed. And then it becomes […]
I just got home from a month exploring Java (with a quick, mid-travel holiday in Bali, of course). Lots of great adventures of getting stuck in the mountains, missing out on the post card view of Bromo and testing the limits of my pathetic Bahasa skills to talk my way out of a few situations. […]
I’ve been to Taipusam in Singapore twice already, so I thought I’d head up to Penang to shoot it this year. It was a little different than the Singapore version. Less piercing and more of a festival atmosphere that pretty much goes all day. It still blows my mind that it seems totally normal while […]
