Saturday, 21 November
It is approximately 300 miles from Jakarta to Yogya by way of roads that are mostly 2 lane and of varying surface quality. Bumpy and narrow and shared by all manner of vehicle: cars, big and little trucks, small vans and large buses, horse drawn carts and motorbikes. So we plan to take 2 days.
The first part of the trip is just escaping the Jakarta sprawl by going south. Soon we see our first volcano in the distance, Mt Salak, before we turn east to climb over the Puncak Pass at 5000ft on a busy highway that climbs thru tea plantations.
Mt. Salak from the toll-road highway:
Danny and nephew Putra at an overlook at Puncak Pass:
We descend from the pass and drive thru lush rainforest punctuated by extensive rice fields and many small towns.
Tea plantations:
One of the highlights of the day came late in the afternoon with a visit to a traditional village called Kampung Naga. This village has tried to maintain itself by keeping to the old traditions of its people, not easy in these days of TV, cell phones, and the internet.
This is a hillside on the edge of the village that contains rice terraces:
This is the river that runs next to the village at the bottom of the valley:
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