For the long weekend at the end of May we decided to head to central Java to climb Gunung Merbabu and to take in the sights of Solo. We flew into Semarang on Thursday night and took a taxi directly to the hill village of Kopeng, where we met our trip organiser Pak Totok. It [...]
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Gunung Lawu (3,265 metres)
We finally made it on a “Java Lava” trip and bagged Gunung Lawu (3,265 m) in Central Java, near to Solo. The Java Lavans are a group of expats and Indonesians that enjoy scrambling up and down the volcanoes of Indonesia and we have been meaning to join them for almost a year. Gunung Lawu [...]
Jogjakarta
We just got back from 10 days in Jogjakarta where we went to language school for a week, and also had plenty of time to enjoy the sights. Jogja is a very nice city – unlike Bogor it has pavements, and the lack of angkots means the roads are not totally choked with traffic! The [...]