Sunday, 13 March. A day spent on 4 different buses on the way from Yogya to Pangandaran. Bus #1. A big, nice, spacious, aircon bus from Yogya bus terminal to Cilacap. 4:40 hours. Rp 40,000. Bus #2. A small, not-so-nice, cramped, non-aircon bus from Cilacap to Sidareja. Bad road. 1:40 hours. Rp 12,000. Bus #3. […]
Saturday, 12 March. Museum Biologi was closed when we went there in the afternoon (by becak). We visited this museum 11 years ago, and found the dusty atmosphere with species on formaldehyde quite interesting. Disappointed we returned to the guest house. In the night we went to Cafe Republic, a place with live music. Museum […]
After two failed attempts at Bank Niaga and Bank BII, CME finally succeeded in withdrawing cash on his defect ATM card at Bank BCA in jl Sudirman today. BCA accepted a cash advance over the counter and was scanning the chip on the card instead of the defect magnetic strip. BCA’s cash advance fee was […]
CME’s ATM card stopped working today. So I guess he is dependent on my goodwill in order to survive the rest of the trip. We tried in several different ATM machines, but it is most of the time impossible to insert the card into the slot. The slot mechanism refuses to open. And when it […]
Yesterday, 9 March: After finally managing to leave the guest house around noon, and then coming back again for an emergency toilet visit (CME), and after having “breakfast” at 15:00 at a nearby restaurant (pizza), we took two becak to the post office and roamed around in that area, including Malioboro street. Back again to […]