Phuket Island
Thursday, December 19, 2013 We drove straight to Phuket Old Town where we’d decided to spend the night. After checking in we went for an evening stroll in the old town. Contrary to Ao Nang (and as it turned out…
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Ao Nang, Krabi
Monday, December 16, 2013 From the border we drove straight to Krabi, only stopping once for coffee. The Southern end of Thailand is still considered a bit of a ‘security’ risk, so better be safe than sorry and not linger.…
Malaysia: Fuel.
On the highway north of Ipoh we stopped for fuel and the strangest thing happened. The service station did not want to sell us fuel. Apparently there is a law in Malaysia that service stations can only sell RON95 fuel…
Alor Star
Sunday, December 15, 2013 Today’s drive was only about 95kms, so no need to rush out in the morning. We stayed off the motorway again and took a more roundabout route towards Alor Star (aka Alor Setar; the first is…
Kuala Lumpur
Friday, December 6, 2013 Back in KL for 3 nights. Still love the place 🙂 Saturday, December 7, 2013 Last time while driving in we kinda got ‘lost’ for a while… one wrong highway exit was all it took to…
Bentong
Thursday, December 5, 2013 After breakfast with Marijke en Coen, we decided to go and check the access roads to Taman Negeri National Park again. But instead of getting better, the water had risen even more. Little dinghies were still…
En Route to Johor Bahru
Saturday, November 23, 2013 While driving out of Melaka we realized that we hadn’t even seen the half of it… we managed to miss the Portuguese Quarter all together. In our defense: we are still struggling with the very humid…
Port Klang, Selangor
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 ‘Whatever do you want to stay in Klang for?’, the driver picking us up at the airport said, ‘Our capital KL is much nicer!’ Whatever for indeed. Well, Klang is the seaport 40-50km southwest of KL…
Indonesia – A Summary
October 23 – November 12, 2013 Three weeks in Indonesia. A nation of countless islands, hundreds of languages, different people with different cultures and religions,…. To say that we didn’t even begin to scratch the surface would be an understatement.…
Bogor, Java
Sunday, November 10, 2013 Everything we heard or read about Jakarta was leaning heavily towards the negative – to say the least. Gridlocked traffic, not that many interesting sites, … so we decided to give the place a miss and…
Borobudur, Java
Friday, November 8, 2013 Borobudur is about a 1 hour drive from Yogyakarta, and we arrived here around noon. Checked into Rumah Boedi Private Residences. The hotel and grounds were nice, but here, as in some other places (accommodation, restaurants,..) I…
Yogyakarta, Java
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 As mentioned we arrived in the evening after a long drive from Malang. By 9pm we were checked-in to The Phoenix Hotel (our drivers pronounced the hotel as fo-nik), where, after freshening up, we enjoyed a drink in…
Malang, Java
Saturday, November 2, 2013 We said goodbye to Ubud around 10:30 am and headed for Denpasar airport to catch our flight to Malang, Java. Booking the plane ticket and getting our hotel to confirm an airport transfer proved somewhat cumbersome,…
Back in Ubud
Friday, November 1, 2013 We left our hotel in Amed at 7:30am and were back in Ubud around 10am. There was a specific reason that we decided to come back here for a day, before moving on to Java tomorrow. At…
Amed, Bali
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 We left gorgeous Alam Indah Hotel at 10am, with our pre-arranged car and driver, to go to Amed. On the way we stopped at Tirta Gangga (Water Palace) for a look-see. Loved the ‘Myst’ like stepping…