Since my flight to Colombo departs at such a difficult hour (07:05), I decided to simply spend the last night at the airport. There are several advantages to this, for example:
No need to worry about waking up on time (sometimes I don’t hear my cell phone alarm clock).
Save one night’s accommodation costs.
Save taxi fare out [...]
When I arrived in Singapore on Monday, I checked into Cozy Corner Guest House, at the tune of SGD 14 nightly in a dorm with AC. Fair enough. I stayed here two years ago too. I noticed the same woman in the reception as before.
And since it is the year of the tiger, I thought [...]
I made my third visa run to Singapore on 28 October, and here are the boring details:
28 Oct: Mandala flight Balikpapan – Jakarta. Rp 503,200. Stayed at “the place” next to Asri (which was full). They have mounted an air conditioner at “the place”, great! The room now costs Rp 90,000.
29 Oct: Lion Air flight [...]
Last weekend I made another Visa Run to Singapore.
Here are the details:
4 Oct, 1000 hours: Air Asia flight from Balikpapan to Jakarta, Rp 758,400. Checked in at Penginapan Asri for one night, Rp 80,000.
5 Oct, 1115 hours: Lion Air flight from Jakarta to Singapore, Rp 499,000. Took the MRT from Changi Airport Singapore to Harbour [...]
My Indonesian visa is good for another two days, but I chose to make the Visa run today, by flying to Singapore and spend a couple of hours there before returning to Jakarta again. I will enter on a 30 days tourist visa this time.
I am now sitting in Changi airport in Singapore with free [...]
In Jakarta I stayed one night in the usual place in Jl Jaksa (Asri Homestay), and one night in Cibubur. On Sunday morning, 24 February, I flew from Jakarta to Phnom Penh via Kuala Lumpur on two AirAsia flights. “Superman” flew in from Bangkok around the same time, but I arrived first and waited an [...]
This was my second long period (more than one year) spent in SE Asia, this time from 5 July 2002 to 20 August 2003.
In this period I stayed most of the time at the familiar Cibubur residence in East Jakarta, but also made some short trips to Batam, Bogor, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Solo, Madiun, Malang, Ubud [...]
My 7th trip to SE Asia was the longest one so far: I arrived in Singapore on 16 June 1999 on Kuwait Airlines via Kuwait, and left Singapore on 2 November 2000 on Pakistan Airlines, bound for Oslo, via Karachi and Islamabad (I stayed one night in Karachi, sponsed by the airline).
During my seventh SE [...]
My second trip to SE Asia lasted from 29 December 1996 to 25 January 1997. I had wanted to go on a vacation outside Europe. It had to be a warm, tropical place, especially since I was trapped in the cold and dark North-Norwegian winter (I was stationed with the military in Bodø). I considered [...]