For our last few days in Indonesia we decided to leave the overpopulated island of Java and to take a ferry to a group of 27 islands north of central Java known as Karimunjawa. It turned out to be a wise idea, as the immense traffic, the crowded cities and the pollution of central Java had stressed us quite a bit. Yes, it had also been a rich experience in the vibrant heart of the…
A little secret spot on an island just off the coast south of Malang. Well probably not that secret anymore, at least to the Javanese people, as the main attraction was actually a bit crowded. But that’s for a reason: it feels like paradise. It’s a lagoon divided from the rough sea only by a thin wall of rocks. This wall has a whole at one place and allows only the highest waves to enter…
Mount Bromo with the view over Mount Semeru is one of the biggest attractions of Java. Every morning bus-loads of tourists get dropped off at the viewing platforms just before sunrise, everybody takes a few hundred photos of the two volcanoes and then get taken back down. The more adventurous of those continue and climb up to the small Bromo crater, but still, that didn’t seem like the right thing for us. So we decided…
Maybe we should have listened to Wikipedia: “Java is the world’s most populous island, and one of the most densely populated places in the world.” That doesn’t make it the ideal place for a road-trip, does it? Maybe we assumed a little adventure behind it or at least a cultural experience and in the end that’s probably what we got. We, that’s the two of us. Simon, a young German I met in Tasmania and…