Denpasar We arrived here at 9 pm on New Year’s Eve with no accommodation booked. We knew it would be tough to find a room since we had called many hotels earlier to no avail. We walked in the area by the bus station and found a beautiful, high-end hotel. They were fully booked so [...]

Java is filthy. The environmental awareness of the local Javanese rank the lowest I’ve ever seen. They throw trash everywhere! The train station and Cuckoo train had garbage scattered over the ground. The great monuments of Borobodur and Prambanan were competing against piles of trash left by tour groups. Morning risers hoping to catch a [...]

These are the main things I knew about Indonesia before I visited. 1) It is one of the most natural disaster-prone areas in the world: earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis all occur here. 2) It is the fourth most populous country in the world with its main island, Java, having one of the highest population densities [...]

A direct flight from Krabi to Jakarta was really expensive so we decided to do a combination of minivan, train and plane with a one-night stopover in Kuala Lumpur. Instead, we travelled the following way: 1) Minivan ride to Hat Yai Hat Yai is where the closest train station to Krabi is located. We took [...]