Many things are different in Indonesia, such as buying ferry tickets: Many kilometers before the port, there were dozens of ticket sales points lined up at the roadside for the only available ferry. However, it took us three attempts before someone was able to issue us a ticket. The system was not available at the others😉.
There are 152 million people living on 124 413 square kilometers in Java. That would be like Switzerland having 50 million inhabitants. We were accordingly prepared for a lot of people and heavy traffic, especially in the greater Jakarta area, where we had arrived by ferry.
46 – Nordvietnam…
…us. And we did Sumatra. As expected and yet surprisingly, the sixth largest island in the world gave us a hard time. Read more about it in this (overly) long report… for those in a hurry, the photo gallery is as usual at the end😉.
Fortunately, we had crossed the border into Malaysia strengthened, as it was Ramadan here… We had marked the Muslim month of fasting in bold letters in our calendar, but assumed that there would be little sign of it in the multi-ethnic state of Malaysia. We were wrong!
