Some of this will be repetition from the post where I arrived at Jakarta airport, but there’s some more to add hence the extra article. The basics, as of the date above: There are a handful of visa types, the most common being the 7-day transit and the 30-day tourist visas. The latter is US$25 [...]

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Putu, my Instructor, picked me up from my hotel at 10:00 so I had a nice lie in. We moto’d up to the dive shop where we spent a couple of hours going through all the material I’d covered the day before. While we were plodding through it all, a young German couple came in [...]

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OK, for once this will actually be a genuine short post. Woke up. Read lots. Filled lots of exercises in. All day. Finished Divemaster handbook review. Went to pub, watched very bad football results (I mean, come on – 3-1 away at West Ham… and the mackems won). Went to bed.

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A slightly earlier start today, but again the staff here ensured I had my breakfast before I left and was picked up by the van. Today I was joined by two Dutch guys and a German, Lars, who was to be my buddy for the day. It was quite a mixed group. One of the [...]

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Yesterday was a pretty quiet day spent chilling out and relaxing as I prepared for the regular sleeps I’d need for the next two weeks. Sadly, despite being in a complete party capital, there’s no way I can go out on the ale of an evening and then do 2-3 dives while in charge of [...]

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I did the usual and went online for far too long. I’ve looked for somewhere to stay with free wi-fi, but they all charge premium rates and most don’t even have rooms free. So it’s cybercafes until I leave thus less internet time. A shame, but there you go. I’ll just have to read or [...]

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Maria and I left Green Hut at 10am on the nose for our lengthy trip to Bali. On the way I think we used pretty much every available type of transport we could have. Monorail First up, we jumped on the monorail to KL Sentral. This is a great way to get around Kuala Lumpur, [...]

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Last things first, some piece of human filth has stolen my PSP. I think I know where my bag was when it was rifled and there’s a security camera in the area. We can’t check it till morning and by then it may be far too late, but you never know. It just sickens me [...]

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Yup, I went to a new city and have no photos for you. But I have an excuse. Basically, Lonely Planet us well wrong as regards the tours of Putrajaya. The one listed in their current edition for Malaysia simply doesn’t exist any more. I asked at Sentral about tickets and got blank looks, so [...]

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A longer day than was expected. I’d pretty much decided to head back to Kuala Lumpur this morning, especially as overnight the rain poured down loud enough to wake the dead let alone me. The weather by morning was much improved, but I chose to join Maria and Oliver on the early bus to KL. [...]

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