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Back to the primitive times

We left home at 11am with heading for Wai-O-Tapu. About 2h later we arrived in Wai-O-Tapu. There is a park called
“Thermal Wonderland” which lies in a volcanic active area within a 50 by 250km stripe where the Pacific-plate meets the Indo-Australian plate. At Thermal Wonderland the Earth opens up and everywhere is steam, water bubbles, [...]

Heading for Indonesia

8 hours Bali
(No worries, that’s just a stop over)
We arrived in Bali at 10pm. Unfortunately, the pick up service did not turn up. It was included in the price of the hotel, but I did not specify it in my hotel request. However, we were standing at the airport and got different offers from Taxidrivers [...]

Our first weekend abroad

Our mission: we want to go to New Zealand to work and travel for approximately one year. But on our way to NZ we want to see some other places of this world like Singapore, Jakarta and Bali.
The beginning
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 we met at the airport in Frankfurt. On the same day [...]

Daytrip - or a long long drive to Cian Jur

Wednesday, 28 June 2005 - We wanted to go for a day trip to some places closed to Jakarta. For that reason we hired a chauffeur driven car hire service which is quite cheap here. The driver picked us up from the appartment at 9 am and we could use that service until 9 pm.
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Botanical [...]