temple borobodur and pleasent dinner

ok, these were the last temples for my journey. I guess i saw enough now :)

but those last 2 were really good anyway and i had to see them. really big.

but 10 dollar entrance fee for each one of them is waaaayyy too much for me, thus i only visited Borobodur, the famous one. Maybe its for restauration, then i gave my fair share, i guess.
As you see, Borobodur is very impressive! Wonderful view over Java and volcanoes.

The guide from the travel agency took me and my group to a second temple, but i didnt pay the entrance fee, just watched from outside and then waited for my group at a deerpark. very nice and cute. ^^

In the evening, I went out for dinner and this really nice indonesian family invited me over at their table. I had a really pleasant talk and food with them. They spoke english very well, and the one guy, Herry, told me about his stays to Europe, also Dresden/Germany. He lives in Sydney at the moment. Enjoyed it!

I again found some new food which looked strange, but that i really like now. Plain egg, which is brown and Jackfruit, fried i guess. really good.




bye

my 'good morning' BigMac had again a massive load of salad in it. I dont know where that comes from.

BigMac's, toothkiller and durian

Today i ate at a McDonald's, a bigmac menu, really good. but the abuse of salad is unbelieveable... there was more salad in the burger than in (where is a lot of salad in it???maybe in a saladburger)... but you get the idea.

then i went to a supermarket, where there was one huge box full of durian fruits. the fruit, that is known for its unstandable smell.
it really has a strong thick smell, which filled the whole supermarket (a relatively big one), but for me, its not unpleasant. its not even annoying. So I went to a little shop in order to try it, and it was really really good :)
it's said that you either hate or love it, and that most people cant go near it.
I liked the taste. its a very rich taste like onions, melted onions. the flesh of the fruit is very creamy.
After this one, i bought some sweet stuff. i dont know what it actually consists of, but its basically a colored, meatball-big, ball with coconut and A LOT OF sugar. its as sweet, that it hurts. i cant eat 2 of them; after one, i think im fat. But it was as good, that I HAD to eat all of them; the white ones tasted like durian. need to get those again.

tomorrow i will visit Borobodur. a huge temple from forgotten times. shall be pretty good!
bye.

Photoupdate

Photos made on the train!

Ramadhan and me

Hi

Now i am in Yogjakarta, i nice town in Central Java.

Right now, its Ramadhan.NO FOOD, until 6pm. I hope i wont starve ^^!

YOU GOTTA BE KITTEN ME!

As a good traveler, I maybe should have checked that before, but i didnt ^^ so it hit me with full surprise!

i arrived on java on 24.08., and will go back on 22.09.
Ramadhan is from 22.08., until 22.09.



but as bruce lee says: "be like water my friend", as well as: "BAM!",
i decided to go to bali soon, the island right east of java. It's said that ramadhan is the hardest time to travel, also because of the totally overfilled transportsystems (a lot of the people return to their families in that time) Bali has more buddhist population and is more touristic, so it's easier to travel there. Even though i prefer to stay away from touristic areas.

Jakarta and Bandung, the 2 cities i've been to, where not really visit-worthy.
Yogjakarta, on the other side, is really nice, very beautiful and a lot of sightseeing. Here i will stay a little bit, then im going to climb 2 volcanoes, and off i go to bali, where i'll stay for the rest of my journey.

I AM HUNGRY!!!

The only food i find in the daytime, is vegetarian spring rolls,... really good, but...

AS EVERYONE KNOWS A TIGER EATS A FLEISCH

They have McDonalds here, so i know where to go if it's too urgent. Even though i prefer streetfood. Who never know what you get, but mostly very good.

Cheers!!!

Indonesia, jakarta

Ok
i arrived in Indonesia today. pleasent flight with no turbulences, thus little bit boring.

jakarta is pretty dirty and where i stay, it makes the impression of a village, a village with 8.5 million inhabitants.
i guess ill leave tomorrow for Bandung.

got some springrolls, pretty cheap, 7 cents per piece, but unfortunately, spring rolls are pretty much the only thing you can buy here.


people told me anyway, to leave jakarta as soon as possible. theres nothing worthy to visit.

I went around with a Taxi anyway, and what i saw was not bad at all. The center seemed very modern.

im pretty tired, had only 3 hours sleep. im going to sleep after this.

bye

UPDATE

updated ko tao with some nice pictures!

("")(o_O)("")

@lumphini park, a lizard like this, tried to rip me my fried chicken. had to be careful with the tail, which they like to use as a whip.



back to bangkok
ooouhhh, nothing interesting here...
just chilling out all day reading, eating and eating.

my thought processes are like this right now:

...hm, have to stay consistent with my workout...
...where do i get good food for 20baht...
...iam hungry but i dont want same old rice...
...maybe some french bakery stuff again, but that is also already "same same but different"...
...maybe some chicken? nahh, had already too much of it...
...damn, so many food and i dont know what i want...
...thats too spicy...
...ok, i have still 200baht to go for that day, i.e. about 4-5 meals...
...am i supposed to do something right now?...
...maybe i go to lumphini park...
...lumphini park is too far away...
...cant afford the 7 baht for the bus...
...maybe i go to the supermarket...
...@ the supermarket: damn, what did i want at the supermarket?...

and least: ...the internet is cheap, i dont have anything to do, why not write some crap on my blog, that people continue coming back to it, checking for an update, and finally get crap like this...

cheers!