2008-03-07 02:00:03Jenny van Formosa

SINGAPORE (Indonisia trip part 1)

We selected the Indonesia (3 main islands SUMATRA/JAVA/BALI) as our destination.
The reason is a little bit strange for some people. The reason is I come from Asia and I would like to know my neighbor a little bit better plus it was the colony of Netherlands.

So our trip started from 3rd February to 24th February. This is the first time, well this is not the 1st time I have 3 weeks holiday but this is 1st time for me and my honey have this kind of detail oriented trip together.

Trip name is Classic Indonesia!!!! (3rd Feb. to 24th Feb.)
Grope 1 in Sumatra =6 people (included me and Peter) in the first 6 days.
Grope 2 in JAVA =10 people, we 6 joined them together to go on the next 2 islands (JAVA+BALI) trip.
Currency 10,000 Rb (IDR) = 1 euro, so everybody are MILLIONAIRE during this whole trip. So every few days my husband needs to go to ATM to become millionaire again for his wife. Because his wife (me) like shopping. So you also can see how high the inflation in this country is.
Medicine= pill(6 days in Sumatra+2extra day=8days) for malaria, malaria mosquito and dingo-fever (登革熱). Plus we bring 2 bottles ”DEET” ANTI-INSENT spray+lotion 50%(for daytime)+40%(night time) for malaria mosquito. The funny thing is we indeed took the vaccination for malatia (虐疾) already but all the foreigner still need this Deet to avoid to be bit by those insects.



The following are our trip schedule and my thoughts during this big trip. For us it is not just a trip but a very detail culture shock trips. We appreciated what we have now and to value what we had which I take for granted.

Day1-day2 =3rd/4th Feb. AMS - Singapore (ref. 18 photos in my album)(we had more then 10 hours there so we took the chance went to downtown instead of sleep/we didn’t sleep in the past 20 hours).
I have to say 75% of Chinese population in this country and you hear Chinese and see Chinese everywhere. You feel wow I am home.

There 4 official languages (English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil) in Singapore. This country is very small but clean and rich. So you have a special skill then this country is a good place to live and experience then multi-culture immigrantion country.