![]() ![]() it was a bit unnerving as every woman who got on that bus was clad in burkas and looked at us like we were crazy for being there. a trip that should have been maybe an hour took several as this local bus went about 5 mph and stopped every other block to pick up people. we should have gotten on a bus reserved through a ticket window, but a taxi dropped us off in the middle of some chaotic town square and i think we sorta panicked and just hopped the first bus we saw going to our desired destination. but our main mistake was catching a local bus half way through our trip. there was some cool scenery along the way: rice paddies, terraced hillsides, volacanoes etc. We had reservations at this resort (found from anthony bourdains no reservations tv show) in central java that we had already payed for, but going through the pure hell we went through to get there was not worth it. also, we sorta saw the whole poverty, gritty, grimy aspect travelling through thailand and it is just hard to handle at times. it takes an hour just to get several miles in some spots. after a 24 hour plane ride traffic is the last thing we feel like dealing with. and if you thought traffic on the 405 in LA was bad at rush hour, you have seen nothing compared to traffic in jakarta and across java for that matter. i think we heard there is something like 18 million people in jakarta alone and some of the towns we go through are a fraction of the size and have about 9 million. Part of the problem in java is the TRAFFIC, the SLUMS, and the amount of PEOPLE. i think at one point we both would have payed to be on our couch with ari watching the new season of survivor. ![]() it has been a pretty rough trip so far and we wanted more of a relaxing trip on great beaches so we needed to make a big change. we had planned to go across java to bali but after numerous taxis to shuttle vans to busses to sickness, we decided to turn around and go back to jakarta and caught the next flight out to bali. This pretty much sums up our past few days so we have changed up our trip path. ![]()
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