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 Traveller's Tales: Things to do in Indonesia
Learn about leisure and recreation in Indonesia. You may read about their travel activities and adventures. Find out their travel tips and guides and discover fun things to do in Indonesia.Also, you might want to read our
Bali city guide,
and Lombok city guide.
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| C Crowe |
10 May 2004 |
Stayed at Alila Manggis - Bali, Indonesia.
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We hired a car and driver for a day's touring and travelled around East Bali, through the beautiful, lush paddy fields, stopping off at Tirthaganga Water Palace, up to the volcano and lake Kintamani and finishing for dinner and a performance of Balinese dancing in Ubud. Although this involves a fair amount of time in the car it is a good excursion for anyone with a relatively limited time in the area.
We also went diving on the wreck about an hour's drive north from the hotel. The dive is excellent with plenty to see, with the added advantage of being fairly shallow, so inexperienced divers can also give it a try. The rest of our long weekend in Bali was just spent enjoying the hotel, it's fantastic ambience and it's facilities.
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| S Skirl |
04 May 2004 |
Stayed at Bali Royal Hotel - Bali, Indonesia.
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Don't go to Tanjung Benoa (or even Nusa Dua) for the beaches! They might have been charming once, now the whole stretches are split with stone walls and little pavillions. But do go to Bali: Landscape and temples and so many details truly make it the Island of Gods! In only 4 days and with two infant children, we managed to go elephant trekking in Taro, art-buying in Ubud und fire-dance -watching in Ulu Watu. One of the best Balinese retaurants was to be found in Tanjung Benoa: The Bumbu Bali offers original culinary delights and great ambience at a very reasonable price (sea turtles swimming at your feet!).
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| B Suda |
02 March 2004 |
Stayed at Ramada Resort, Benoa - Bali, Indonesia.
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Bali is a nice relaxing destination. It was not very busy which may be a result of the lingering doubts felt by some tourists after the Kuta bombings of October 2002.
I felt entirely safe the whole time I was there and would not hesitate returning.
I would recommend hiring a taxi for the day. 8 hours will set you back aorund 250,000-300,000 rupiah which is a bargain. Places to see are Tanah Lot, Mt Kintamani (I hope that's how it is spelt), Ubud and the nearby monkey forest.
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| J Orange |
06 October 2003 |
Stayed at Puri Santrian Beach Resort - Bali, Indonesia.
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I advise all to do the AJ Hacket Bungie Jump in Kuta.
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| D Naulita |
25 September 2003 |
Stayed at Melasti Beach Bungalows - Bali, Indonesia.
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Just be careful if you visit uluwatu temple - the monkeys are very wild and nasty. He grabed my glasses and ran.
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| J Lim |
04 June 2003 |
Stayed at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Majapahit - Surabaya, Indonesia.
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I had not the oppurtunity to delve into Surabaya City itself as the city was only my entry and exit point for my trek and ascent of Mt. SEMERU.
IF one enjoys trekking, the "Indonesian style" is quite incomparable. My wife and I had two porters, a cook and a guide.
They collectively blessed us with :
superb "mountain and trekking " cuisine cooked over open log fire;
with cheerfulness and devotion to our safety, comfort and enjoyment
that made our trip memorable.
WE are surprised that there is precious little information generally available on the SEmeru Trek and climb.
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| D Michel |
24 March 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Coralia Bogor - Jakarta, Indonesia.
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If you can bring your golf equipment there do it!
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| J Teh |
13 March 2003 |
Stayed at Atlet Century Park Hotel - Jakarta, Indonesia.
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There are lots of nice local foods around, from light to heavy meal, however, you must ask your friend to help as the location is not around the hotel vicinity. Places like Kelapa Gading area, Mangga dua are one of the places where you can find both good shopping deal and nice food.
Jakarta is not an easy place to walk around like in Bangkok, so buy a map before you travel and know where you want to go if you are travelling on free and easy, unless you have friends. As for transportation, always use blue bird taxi as it is safer for foreigners. Always check if the meter is on. Please prepare small notes for taxi as they don't give you small change like in Singapore.
The Spas is good and cheap, much cheaper than in Singapore, it is a good try.
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| M Okamoto |
29 January 2003 |
Stayed at Melia Purosani - Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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My main destination was the Borobudor. The travel agent in the hotel do not offer group tour, but personal tour only, which costs you about US$50 per person (to Borobudor and Prambanann). (over $60 if you are alone.) If you want to save a bit, you could just ask for the car and a driver, that cost about $30 to $40.
If you want to save more by taking a group tour, try an agent in Ibis Mariobolo Hotel. The tour I took cost less than $10 though you have to pay for your lunch and entry to the ruins. ($7 each and less than $2 for lunch at a local restaurant.) Even it was called as a group tour, it was only me and a couple and a baby from Sumatra.
In Jogjakarta, there are a lot of batik stores that are overpriced. (though I do not know how much was the RIGHT price, and the people in general was very friendly to me and tended to give me better price because I am Asian...).
If you want to see art batiks (not for clothes but for decoration) at a reasonable price, there is "goverment art center." I was told about the place from a guide at the king's palace('Kraton'). (There you have to be guided at first to take a look.) He also instructed the Becha (bicycle taxi) driver to take me there at a very reasonable rate (that you would never get when you ask one on street). I think the price was reasonable there, they only show you the final price on the list. (or at least I was just comfortable with the endorsement of the government...?)
If you need to bargain, you'd never know the right price and you tend to pay much higher than appropriate range unless you know the market very well or you are exceptionally good at bargaining, so...
Then one of the staff there took me to my next destination, a museum. (He actually wanted to take me to his gran'ma's batik store after the museum, that I declined...)
May be because of the drastic reduction in tourists, people selling things/service in Jogjakarta as well as Bali were TOO eager to sell you, that made me very tired. But people in general was pretty kind and nice!
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| K Wiegand |
28 December 2002 |
Stayed at Sheraton Mustika Yogyakarta - Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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You can easily reach the famous Borobudur site even on public buses. Javanese people are very friendly. At Borobudur try to get Ms Aisha as a guide, she can tell a lot of interesting facts and stories in reasonable good English. She usually waits for customers at the ticket office.
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