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Well a long day today so up late and had a relaxing breakfast before starting to work out our packing and doing a load of washing.
We then heading out to find a coffee shop that sells Luwak Coffee or Civet Kopi (The civet eats the coffee berries for the beans' fleshy pulp, then in the digestive tract, fermentation occurs. The civet's proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated with other fecal matter and collected.) this makes it the worlds most expensive coffee but have been told that there are many fake or cut down coffee been sold as the real stuff. The coffee shop mentioned no longer sold it so something to look forward to on my return to Jakarta.
We styed and had a small lunch at the coffee shop then headed to Melly's Garden Bar/Restaurant for a few beers. as it was only a nearby we decided to walk and after about 30 meters in the walk the heavens opened up and it bucketed down for about 1 hour, as we got drenched in 1 miniute we decided to keep walking as we thought there was no way we could get any wetter. Tony being navigator got us in the general area but with differing directions from local it took 40 minutes to find the place. It was a nice bar and I will return during my job exchange.
We then headed back to the Hotel as our flight to Cambodia was due to depart at 04:40 the next moring we checked the washing (machine was washer/dryer in one and although fairly new was not very good dryer)
Had a rest and then headed once again to Grand Indonesia for a dinner trying to make it as late as possible but as most restaurants close by 8pm was not too late. I repacked and left all but what I needed for the Cambodia section in the hotel storage.
Due to traffic we were recommended to taxi for the airport at around 1am which we did but then arrived at the airport @ 1.30am to be told we cannot go through security until 03:00 so more sitting around waiting.
Continued on Cambodia section.
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