Semarang in Central Java province, is one of many cities where Rimbaud has set foot.
is also the starting point for the islands Karimunjawa, at 3 o'clock boat from the city. These islands are said to be very beautiful. So with Francis, living in the great industrial port, we had planned to go there this weekend. Tickets and hotel reservation systems.
But no. Thursday night phone call from the agency: "Well finally there's no boat, there's too vague." Ah thin.
Plan B: we rented a credit of 2 days and the hard part, to the discovery of the "Other Java". Ayo! Branch
the south. Imogiri and the tomb of the Sultan. A grand staircase (347 steps from the parking warden, 352 from her boyfriend, 356 from The Rough Guide, 345 according to the police but they are corrupt), a nice view but the fog, forcing rainy season.
And above all ... I realized the pleasure of breathing clean air, fresh air. Far from Jakarta and its pollution in the mountain ... I learned to breathe. A lot of good I tell you ...
is drawn to the South. It passes through small country roads in the mountains near Yogyakarta. Between rice fields and small villages ... Magnificent.
The vast range Parangtritis ... 
... and another smaller and cuter: Pantai Baron. Peaceful atmosphere, we ask ourselves. Then unrolls a typical phenomenon in Indonesia: we see the rain come, move toward us. We can see the boundary between rain and non-moving rain. So we run to hide. A good mie goreng (despite an order of nasi goreng), and zou.
We arrive in the evening Sarangan. Cool village perched beside a lake. Cool atmosphere but there is a "meeting", we hear people lamenting, crying in a micro view. Want? Dodo.
The next morning we heard of dangdut (traditional Indonesian music) screaming from the meeting room, backed by techno. Hmm? We will pay the hotel, we realize that people in the meeting (twenty people) are dancing like crazy at 8am in the morning, in daylight, therefore, on the song "house" (read " Boum Boum ") issued at high volume. We risk a look, they even set up a podium and everything. They are unleashed! Boggles the mind. I ask the girl to receive what is this "meeting" involving people wearing a t-shirt "SOS training. She says "komplemen Obat", or an addition to medication. No doubt a confidence course or something like that ...
Meet Our Team of depression (look as they look sad):
few pictures and we took off towards Candia Sukuh. Small Buddhist temple lost in the mountains. Beautiful views, cool. A second in the same kind, among the tea plantations, Candie Seto. Equally beautiful.
It goes back to Semarang, pause Bandungan. Still in the mountains, yet cool, yet the temples, but a different style. Beautiful and quiet.
Back in Semarang, airplane, sleep.
A very good weekend ...
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