lukemackin

Sometimes if you ask around when you get to a place, you can find someone that likes to host foreigners in their home. I know a number of...

Emma: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16176410

That's impressive, wideworld! Good find!

The website shows their buy rate to be 9.220, and the sell rate is 9.320. Which makes more sense compared with the posted Central Bank...

Wow, was that the sell price or the buy price? Because that's a higher buy price than even the Central Bank of Indonesia is listing, so...

This was your original comment:...

I really hope you're making a joke, salud.

You might want to have a back up plan to climbing Merapi. It's been erupting a lot lately, and supposedly climbing is not allowed at the...

"I hope that I will be able to read some more balanced perspectives on your website in the future."...

I'm not sure, but this was sent out recently by the U.S. embassy....

I don't need convincing that that's the way it is in many areas of Bali. However, I don't think those areas of Bali are very representative...

By your own admission, the folks in Ubud are vastly wealthier than the common man in Indonesia, so I'm sure that with their wealth they can...

"The women of Bali and Java pride themselves as much on their batik as they do their jewelry and none of them would be caught dead wearing...

I wouldn't characterize authentic batiks as costing just "a little more!" The real thing is pricey, at least for my budget (admittedly, I...

"I does say this on Capital One's banking site in the small print:...