The train journey from Solo to Yogyakarta only took an hour and it was just like being on a train at home, very comfortable! We decided to get a becak to the area where the cheap homestays are and we walked around until we found Dewi Homestay, we had a four poster bed complete with Mozzi net and it was only 10 dollars a night so we were happy! Yogyakarta is a lot prettier than Solo, where we were staying there were lots of little alley ways with restaurants and...

We got the bus to Solo or Surakarta (both names are used) straight after our Bromo experience so by the time we arrived at 8pm we were very tired. We had read about a homestay which was run by a Javanese family who had a blood line to the Royal Family. We checked in and went straight to bed. The following morning we woke and realised what a big place we were staying in, it had a pool and many rooms based around the main house where the family lived. There wa...

We booked a bus from Bali to a place called Probolinggo which is the main base for tours to Mount Bromo. The bus left Bali at 10am and took us onto a ferry across to Java and we were finally dropped in Probollingo at about 9pm. As the guide book had pre warned we weren't dropped at a bus station but at a travel agency where a guy tried to sell us a tour to Bromo leaving at 3am to see sunset. We said we would come back the following day and took a cyclo to the ...

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...