So I know I said before in my post on Yogyakarta that Bali isn’t the real Indonesia, and that’s true. The locals are Hindu, not Muslim. Unlike in Java, all the shops and eateries were open during the daytime even though it was Ramadan. In fact, we couldn’t even tell it was the middle of […]

As you will soon learn from my forthcoming overview post, I was—as Chris put it—in “hippie heaven” in Bali. Chris was out of commission for a week with his super disease during our stay in the town of Ubud, the mecca of all things natural and organic. And from yoga, to massages, to organic food, and without […]

As we headed east across the island of Java from Yogyakarta towards Bali, we decided to make two stops along the way to see Mother Nature at her finest. Both stops involved staying in not the nicest of accommodations, getting up in the wee hours of the morning, and some pretty serious exertion before the […]

Most folks who have visited Indonesia 1.) are Australian and 2.) have only been to Bali. And so it is said that to truly see Indonesia—the world’s fourth largest country—you must leave Bali and venture out among its 17,500 other islands. We plan to visit possibly as many as 50 countries during our trip, and […]