Tadpat on the way

Wow! :-)
They celebrate the end of Ramadhan with their families! So there was no big party in Jakarta. Only some kids (and tourists) who did some fireworks!!!!
Our impression of Jakarta: the whole city was closed :-)
Due to Ramadhan and the holidays!!!

So we decided to move on. Now we are in Yogyakarta! But to get here this is a real story :-)
We booked a overnightbus, because the guy from the ticket office said it's a 12 hours ride.... great plan, arriving in the morning, check the hotels and do some sightseeing!
BUT the bus needed 25,5 hours!!! So we arrived late in the evening and all hotels were booked!!! After 25,5 hours of not having sleept (the bus was playing hoppe hoppe reiter with us) we needed to figure out a plan.
We went to a more pricy Hotel ask them to store our bags for one night. First Hotel said no, the second agreed!
Then after having some latenight dinner it turned out that we are really tired! We went back to the hotel with the luggage and they had no problem with us, sleeping in the lobby!!! Resume: we saved the money for one night and had a comfortable couch! :-)

Mext morning we had different options. Afer a long disscussion of pros and cons we decided to search for a room again....
Patrick first got a hint that there is a hotel with available room, but it was shitty and far from the center.
And while Patrick checked some other things (because of our visa) I went out for a room and I was really lucky. The second Guesthouse I checked was available!!!!
A small nice, and clean room, with attached bathroom and normal price!!!!

Now relaxing a bit and go for food in a couple of minutes!!!!

This is our lucky chance!!!!



Chill out

Tadpat

Thanks to all of the hotelguys who helped us and had been friendly! Very nice experience that you find someone who tries zo help you!

Hello from Sumatra,

As I already wrote, we really enjoy our stay here in Sumatra. At the moment I'm fighting against a terrible muscleache from climbing up and down a vulcano! It was a great trip, because the special thing about it was, that we started at night to see sunrise on the top! We had amazing views from up there! We had a lot of fun with the guides and our group! :-)
(I'm going to upload pictures as soon as possible!!!)

Now we are at Lake Maninjau! It's a beautiful and huge crater lake, surrounded by the rainforest. We only spended one night here, because tomorrow morning is our flight to Jakarta!
In Jakarta we going to celebrate the end of Ramadan!!! That's the next story about!!! :-)

That's the view from our Bungalow on Lake Maninjau!!!! :-)



Hope everybody of you is doing good!!!
I always like to read what's going on in Germany :-)

Lovely hugs from Sumatra

Tadpat

Hi everyone!

A few hours after we won the title, we flew from Kuala Lumpur to Medan. Now we already spend some nights in Sumatra, Indonesia. We had been on a smoky vulcano, saw a waterfall comig from the underground, falling 120 meters into a hole and a huge vulcano lake. So far we enjoy our stay in Sumatra and looking foreward to more. The countryside is amazing, from beaches to rainforest and metropole cities!!!

Malaysia we only did a short roundtrip. I'd like to look back on our stay in Melaka. It'is a really nice world harritage city! But what made our stay special, was about the people we met! Long discussions, party and a lot of fun had been the reason why we extended our visit twice! :-) Thank you guys!

Cheers

Patrick and Taddy