Jakarta, Indonesia
10/09/14 15:52 Filed in: Indonesia
4am Sara arrived in Jakarta after a 44 hour bus journey.....She emailed to say:
Just letting you know after 44.5 hours travel I arrived safely in Jakarta. The bus dropped me off (again-like in Vientiane) in the middle of the night. I got quiet upset at the bus driver for leaving me abandoned in the middle of a strange city at 4am but since he couldn't speak English he didn't know what I was saying. But there was an open shop and after much confusion if which buses to take I managed to reach my destination.
I am now safely at the house of Sylvia (an Indonesian girl I met on the train in Laos). She lives one or two hours by car from the centre in BSD... Sub urban part of Jakarta: serpong, tangerang, banten.
BSD is "Bumi Serpong Damai", a private and gated upper middle class city development for more than 100,000 people on the outskirts of Jakarta, about 20 km to the South West of the Jakarta Centre.
Just letting you know after 44.5 hours travel I arrived safely in Jakarta. The bus dropped me off (again-like in Vientiane) in the middle of the night. I got quiet upset at the bus driver for leaving me abandoned in the middle of a strange city at 4am but since he couldn't speak English he didn't know what I was saying. But there was an open shop and after much confusion if which buses to take I managed to reach my destination.
I am now safely at the house of Sylvia (an Indonesian girl I met on the train in Laos). She lives one or two hours by car from the centre in BSD... Sub urban part of Jakarta: serpong, tangerang, banten.
BSD is "Bumi Serpong Damai", a private and gated upper middle class city development for more than 100,000 people on the outskirts of Jakarta, about 20 km to the South West of the Jakarta Centre.