Indonesia travel stories

Gamelan and Fire Dance

Late September brought pictures of fires that had already destroyed a million acres of forest land on Sumatra and Kalimantran. Smoke was covering a wide area of Southeast Asia. Reports of a plane c...

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'Woman' Food

Malaysia, which I had always regarded as a country of transit, rather than destination has turned out to be South East Asia's surprise star. With Grant and Charity (his girlfriend) in tow, we ...

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Daua Toba

Daua Toba is one of those great landscape set pieces, nature showing off. It is the world's largest crater lake, formed by the collapse of an enormous volcanic caldera some 70,000 years ago; a ...

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Buses and bitch fights

When it came to leaving Sumatra, Jane was adamant that we take a coach down to Jakarta. In support of this position, she advanced two persuasive, cogent arguments: namely that buses are economical ...

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More Volcanoes

You hope Indonesian journeys are going to get better, but they don't. Many Indonesians had told us that in Java the roads are 'just like Europe'; I can only assume they were talking ab...

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