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Singapore - Surabaya - Jember - Mount Bromo, WW
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| Walk / Tour | 7.50 Miles |
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| no partners | | Last Christmas, I gave my wife a “trip of your lifetime” back home to Indonesia. (She had not been back since 1957.) We went on that trip from 9/22 to 10/7. (Mileage is how far I walked, total.)
Long story short -- I wrote a 5-part, 4700 word blog -- we spent a couple of days in Singapore, which was what every city should be: Clean, safe, organized. Expensive too, but public transportation is great. (The two work together when you tolerate NO shenanigans.) Highlights were Merlion Park lion-headed fish fountain on Marina Bay, Thian Hock Ken buddist temple, thousands of orchd species at the Botanic Garden, Marina Bay Sands SkyPark Observation Deck, and the gin bar in our hotel. 
Next was Indonesia.
Not nearly as clean and organized, but still safe, and the people couldn't have been nicer. Also very inexpensive. (A Big Mac meal was equivalent to $3.80!) Our base was Jember, in East Java. My wife grew up on her father's tobacco plantation, a few miles north, in Jelbuk. So, we visited the tobacco museum, a tobacco "factory" (all manually rolled cigars), and tried searching (unsuccessfully) for her old home.
After an all night drive, we got to experience the famous Mount Bromo sunrise. (I had Grand Canyon flashbacks, watching tourists climb over the railing ...  )
Watching my wife travel back in time, I feel like I did something useful & good with my life. 
Mount Bromo Sunrise
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v707fia-sunrise-on-m ... nesia.html
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1126588872 |
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