Having enjoyed many meals alone while on the road, I like to watch people eat. Not what they are eating really, but what they are doing while they eat. This often makes me compare things to Montreal, my hometown and a real “foodie” city. At home we are all chefs, or so we pretend to be when we dine in.
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I now know that the category of “people with a reasonable level of fitness” does not apply to me. At 5:00am, Sunday morning, I set out on a motorcycle for Gunung Merapi, famous deity-esque volcano of Java. On the two hour ride from my homestay in Yogyakarta to the volcano, I was psyching myself up for what I thought would
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Via Via Cafe (www.viaviacafe.com) was the recommended tour company to visit this Hindu temple site. Although Prambanan is quite popular on its own, very few tourists bother to visit the other temples in the area. This worked out well for us, since we had these other “hidden temples” all to ourselves. For the motor taksi ride there, we took country
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Kraton, the royal residence built by the first sultan of Yogyakarta, was where I decided to spend my first Saturday in this uni town. The complex has three separate sites, each that you have to pay for, and the prices for tourists were of course increased since it’s the high season. So 22.000 rupiah ($2.44 CAD), a bottle of water
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Ten years ago I set a goal to visit 30 countries by my 30th birthday. With no plan or country list to fulfill this goal, I decided to let life take me where it wished.
“See Simi Travel Blog | Adventures of a travel snob“, is just that. The account of an ex-20-something year exploring the world, usually solo, and on a very limited budget.
Every other week I try to tell you a story about the friends, food, fun and fails I’ve had along the way.
