Indonesian flashback

Lula uploaded last pictures from Indonesia. So here we go -> her gallery again.)) I should start to work like her manager ODER WAS:)

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Are they selling flies or chicken??

Finding vs. loosing

Lucia has been living in London for a while and she was always finding staff on the street, in a bin, actually wherever. For those ones, who do not know - klick this link dumpestring.
Some of my friends are quite active dumster divers. Honestly, I am not such an extreme in these things, but still I am a big fan of the whole idea.  I do not mind loosing something, cause I believe in the cycle of thinks and I believe I will find something else the other day.

Last Sunaday evening we took a walk through the Bricklane area. On one of the streets,  near some bin I found really nice shoes. I could not believe it, those shoes looked almost like new and someone threw them away. I took them home and gave them a proper look, took a bit care of them ( yes a bit of glue was necessary). It literallly took me no longer than 10 minutes of work and they were like new. If you take a look on the neverending mass production (overproduction ???), maybe after bit thinking you can realise that thinks sometimes need a second chance.

Lula's photo art

Lula took a long time to publish her photos, which she took with her two analog cameras. Actually, till now she has put just the Hong Kong pics online, so I will let you know when Indonesian pics will be seeable. The pics turned out to be really great. I love Lula's style a lot.

Capturing Indonesia with my Diana F

Finally, I managed to develop all the films from the trip. Besides my DC, I took my Diana, but I am quite bad at taking pictures with it. So here you are, enjoy .)) If you ant to see more, just check my gallery :)) but I repeat, I am not a good photographer.

Lula s ass at Sanur

Sanur

... and the Sea

Before we left to Europe

Before leaving to Europe, we spent two nights and one full day in HK. We just did not do any sight seeing, we spent all the time with shopping, meeting our friends Tanya and Andy, eating good food and sleeping. Unfortunately, we got really sick, the last two days so it was quite exhausting and we did not manage to party too much. And btw. we got a really good couchsurf .)) I have to become more active with the whole couchsurf idea. After this trip, I started to enjoy it a lot.

Night HK view

Lula

Meeting Tanya :) I love this picture of her

Us :)

Indonesia in a nutshell

In the following paragraphs I would like to summarize my "Indonesian impressions". I hope my viewpoint is just realistic (not too pessimistic hopefully). And remember, it is just my impression so who cares.))

On the one hand Indonesia is a beautiful country with outstanding exotic nature, on the other hand the people obviously do not value the nature too much cause the beaches and the water and the forests etc. is usually polluted. This fact decreases the positive impression of the whole Indonesia considerably.

The food in Indonesia consists basically from  rice, egg, cooked or fried veggies and meat, soya products and lot of chili. I was quite surprised, how Indonesian people can eat so much fried and oily food if it is so warm there. If you want something else to eat, you have to go to restaurants, which are mainly for tourists. The second point considering the food is that they use too much sugar. They have so many fruits and do lot of "fresh juices", however they always put so much sugar inside that it makes it a bit disgusting. The same thing with coffee and tea and so on. Actually I was expecting lot of fresh salads and healthy food and the cruel reality disappointed me a bit. But still, they have really good seafood and from the local cuisine the possible vegetarian meals Cap Cay (steamed veggies) and Nasi Goreng (fried rice with fried veggies) were my favorite ones.

The people in Indonesia are basically very friendly and they are always interested in how u do, where do you come from and so on. However, I found it pity that I could not talk to them more (our whole conversation was basically just answering these few basic questions, eventually to doing some "business" with them). Their command of English was usually low and my command of Indonesia was also very low, so it was practically impossible to communicate together what I found really pity.  Anyway there were some exceptions  with which I had really nice talk. One of the local guys told us a big truth about the Indonesian people: they are like chili - small and hot .)).

Doing business with Indonesia people can be quite annoying cause they usually offer you much higher price than to the locals. On the one side it is understandable, on the other side it is just annoying. The bargaining is fun at the beginning, but it can also become really tiring if you have to bargain for every single bottle of water you buy. What I really have to complain about is the police system, which is really corrupted (cause almost everyone is friends with police).

Anyway the whole trip was so good, even if I complain in this text too much, we had just so much fun, seen lot of exotic places, did diving and surfing (these two things were the absolute top for me), met lot of nice people. I think I became more brave after this trip and my border of fear has moved. I learned that I would pack my luggage differently the next time (among others i would definitely take following things, which I either forgot or bought there: just two dresses, board shorts, flip flops, some very thin shirt with long sleeves, more t shirts, just one long trousers, socks, one hoodie, knife,  spoon, big scarf - to cover the bed and to cover myself in transport with strong aircon, sleeping bag, goggles, snorkel, very good first aid kid and cosmetics and washing powder and some oatmeal cause in Indonesia it is so expensive and I was missing it).  I learned that the lonely planet guide is just a must have for backpackers - and the next time I would not travel without it. I learned that it is sometimes good to have a men with you, when you travel in Indonesia - cause girls are an easy target. I passed a diving course and was learning surfing. And I learned that I do not want to stop traveling. I just love it.

Goodbye Indonesia

We were supposed to spent few days in Sumatra cause our flight to HK was leaving from Medan. Though, we were just tired of stress connected to getting familiar with new places and transport and so we decided just to fly to Medan and from Medan to HK. In Medan we would wait for 6 hours for the next flight and because there is "so much to do at the Medan airport" we just took a taxi and went to hotel Plaza to have some good food and internet. Official airport taxis from the airport to the city center cost 50 000 Rupiah, which is just a nice bullshit cause it takes about just like 10 minutes driving there. Some guy offered us a ride for 35 000 Rupiah - though he was not an official taxi driver wearing the taxi uniform. Anyway, it felt so ridiculous that the whole trip we tried to travel low cost and the very last they we went to hotel Plaza, but it was a very good decision. We bought buffet breakfast for 27 000 Rupiah and got for it awesome food and there was even internet for free. Actually, that day I felt nostalgic that we were leaving, but in a corner of my soul I was really looking forward why. I will write a little resume in the next post.