Jakarta

Travel Day

We had made the decision after speaking with a few travellers that Jakarta was not a particularly a nice city to hang around in so we thought we would only stop there overnight to catch a flight to our next destination of Borneo.

After another decadent Starbuck’s breakfast we caught a taxi from our hotel to the train station, once again we were pleased to see that the train was decent and we spent the 3 hour journey watching the scenery go by and catch up with a bit of blogging.

 

When we arrived at Jakarta train station after a bit of haggling we agreed on a price for a taxi to take us to our hotel, driving through the city we must say it didn’t look as bad as we had been told or imagined (maybe we just saw the polished parts).

 

Our hotel was about 15 miles outside of the city but we chose it as it was close to the airport for our early flight the next day.  When we arrived we could see that it was more of a motel and purpose built for flight transfers and they had no beer!!!

So after we checked in we headed down to the local town to find a ATM and hopefully score a couple of beers.  Arriving at the 7/11 we managed to get a bit of cash but were informed that there was nowhere to buy beers in the area.

We then went back to the motel and asked the receptionist if they could order us a couple of bottles in which they said they could.

For the rest after the afternoon we watched a bit of TV before going to the motel restaurant (where we were the only people there) to get some noodles for dinner and enjoy an illicit beer or two, before going back to the room for the night.