Saturday, 25Nov06
Highlights: arrive in Bandar Lampung, sleep, Ojek: cement ship & long harbor, steel buoy monument, closed museum, Bumi Kedaton park, waterfall
Ok, so my idea of taking the night bus, and arriving perfectly refreshed was a naïve miscalculation. There’s no such thing as jumping off a 10-hour all night bus-ride “refreshed”.
I made my way straight to the hotel & “refreshed” there for a few hours.
Coming back to life sometime before noon, I called the enthusiastic Ojek driver who gave me a lift to the hotel earlier (mas Sutrisno), and for $15 a day he would take me anywhere I wanted to go!
We started South at the long harbor & worked our way up North to the waterfalls in the hills.
My Lonely Planet book described some of the wreckage from the 1883 eruption of Krakatau,,, one of the 10 largest in recorded history, if I’m not mistaken. It caused a 40 foot tsunami, which carried ships & all manner of things far inland, in addition to killing some 36,000 people at the time.
A monument has been erected where one of those sea vessels came to rest… and that’s what I was shooting for. I probably explained that poorly in bahasa Indonesia- which is how we ended up on the far side of the long harbor, looking at something else rather intriguing:
Highlights: arrive in Bandar Lampung, sleep, Ojek: cement ship & long harbor, steel buoy monument, closed museum, Bumi Kedaton park, waterfall
Ok, so my idea of taking the night bus, and arriving perfectly refreshed was a naïve miscalculation. There’s no such thing as jumping off a 10-hour all night bus-ride “refreshed”.
I made my way straight to the hotel & “refreshed” there for a few hours.
Coming back to life sometime before noon, I called the enthusiastic Ojek driver who gave me a lift to the hotel earlier (mas Sutrisno), and for $15 a day he would take me anywhere I wanted to go!
We started South at the long harbor & worked our way up North to the waterfalls in the hills.
My Lonely Planet book described some of the wreckage from the 1883 eruption of Krakatau,,, one of the 10 largest in recorded history, if I’m not mistaken. It caused a 40 foot tsunami, which carried ships & all manner of things far inland, in addition to killing some 36,000 people at the time.
A monument has been erected where one of those sea vessels came to rest… and that’s what I was shooting for. I probably explained that poorly in bahasa Indonesia- which is how we ended up on the far side of the long harbor, looking at something else rather intriguing:
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