We flew with Air Asia from Jakarta to Bali, one of their air stewards was very interested in our travels and sat with us for half an hour, telling us where he likes in Indonesia and we learnt a little bit of Indonesian too. He even gave us some free fruit! On arrival in Bali we had a taxi driver from the homestay (guesthouse) we had booked in Denpasar (South Bali) coming to pick us up and again it was dark when we arrived so time for an early night ready for ou...

We checked in at Ho Chi Minh Airport and flew with Air Asia over to Jakarta, we arrived into Jakarta quite late and so it was dark when we got a taxi to the hotel we had booked. We pretty much went straight to bed after a long day. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and has a population of over 10 million, the most populous city in South East Asia and 12th in the world. After deciding to walk to the train station the following morning these facts started to b...