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Indonesia Photos: Finally the last part!

Ok so if y'all are still interested I have more photos to post! This is taken on the way to Cilacap from the comfort of the minibus. It looks like Limpbizkit has fled to Indonesia after falling miserably off of the US charts! Either that or just another elaborately decorated minibus.


After Cilacap I transfered to a local bus for the rest of the trip. The bus was hands down the crappiest thing on wheels I have even been on. On the way there we pulled off the dirt road to fill the tyres up with air, but then the bus stalled. The driver then climbed in the hatch you can see in the picture under the bag and started to turn and bang things with wrenches. This didn't work so we all had to get out and push start the bus, twice! Oh it was a fun trip!


One of the highlights of Pangandaran was the trip up the Green Canyon. You take a boat up the river until you hit rocks. From here you swim against the current pulling youself along the rock walls until the river turns way too dangerous to swim. This picture is taken from where boats stop and where you start swimming. We swam up around the bed and kept going for about an hour our of the picture. Then at the end you get to ride the current all the way down, except for the part in the picture as it's too slow. It was great fun!


One the boat ride after swimming: a guide, Matt, and Elsa making the boat all the faster with her paddle!


Look, my Germany beer belly is almost gone!! Take that Westvleteren, Warsteiner, und Wuerzburger Hofbrau! Caroline, Gav and our swimming guide also in the pic.


Here's to ungracefullness! Having fun jumping off of the canyon walls! Maybe one day I'll be able to tuck my knees in.


There were tons of stray dogs running around Pangandaran. They all looked the same, small and cute! I didn't pet any but they seemed friendly enough and would rather mind their own business.


At the end of the beach the jungle started. You were told to go into the jungle only with a guide so I only walked to the edge of it but found lots of monkeys swining in the trees and running around on the ground. This one is eating a banana. I left when they started hissing for food!


This is at the fish market. They have all kinds of freshly caught fish and seafood sitting out. You pick what you want and they clean, gut and cook it all right in front of you!


Sunset at Pangandaran first night. Such a beautiful place!


Not a good pic but all the other ones were way more drunk looking. Elsa and I are riding in a becak (pronounced bay-chak). It's a three-wheeled bicycle thingy. You pay the driver about $1 to take you across town. They are quite fun for a short trip!


On the way to Jakarta. This was taken out of another bus window. It gives you an idea of some of the dramatic scenery of Java: Muddy rice patties surrounded by volcanic mountains.


This is in the old Jakarta Harbour. Matt and I paid a guy in a small boat to paddle us around the old lumber ships that are still used to shuttle teak between Indonesia's islands. The picture looks fine but the waters here were very gross. The corners were full of garbage and filth. I even saw a dead dog floating under one of the houses.


This is taken in a small village near the old harbour. I really like how the colours come out in this picture. (and if it sounds like I know what I'm talking about, I don't!)


Here me and Matthieu are at some special monument thingy in Jakarta. It's wonderful not knowing what things are!


Elsa, me and Matt riding in a Tuk-tuk through the streets of Jakarta!


I saw this lift in the Jakarta airport. You would think they wouldn't call it something so insulting to certain people!


And one last picture, I promise! I thought this was an interesting contrast of Jakarta's poor and rich, new and old. Here we have one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Jakarta, people living in shanty-town shacks, and then a huge modern sky scraper towering over. This is also the place where I saw the dead dog to the right of those boats.

Posted by Evan at 11:37 PM