Hello everybody!
After our stop in Germany (because of the funeral of Heikes father) we decided not to return directly to Wischnewski, who was bravely waiting for us in Kochi/South India. It was not only the monsoon that was going on in South India what made us wait. The last (emotional challenging) months needed us to make a break to regain strength and confidence to restart our trip in our expedition truck. But beside that, monsoon time (in South India) means that it is not a great time to travel in a caravan. Just too wet and too hot. So Wischnewski had to wait a little longer for our return, because we choose to wait a while in Jakarta/ Indonesia for the Indian monsoon to end. In Jakarta (south of the equator, mostly Muslim and a bit rustical) it was dry season, the right thing for us.
It was a good choice to go to Indonesia! Jakarta maybe is not the greatest city to visit as a sightseer (very big, masses of people, heavy traffic and not many sightseeing things to do). But no problem: we usually prefer just to stay and live in a suburb experiencing the country and the people. And that was the great point in Jakarta: the people! We surely met so many friendly nations/people already during our trip, but the Jakartanians surprised us with their extra-honest and pleasant friendliness. It was easy to realize that tourism did not poison the spirit yet, that was great. And we could enjoy a lot of unknown food. We felt very welcome in Jakarta and had nice 4 weeks there, … before we went on to Chiang Mai/ Thailand to spend another 4 monsoon-waiting-weeks (see next blog post).
But now please checkup some pictures from Jakarta!
Best wishes from
Heike and Carsten
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