Indonesia Travel

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. This is the absorbing chronicle of that year.

Greater Than a Tourist - Bali Indonesia, by Hunum Gitarina, offers the inside scoop on Bali. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist- Indonesia offers the inside scoop on Indonesia. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that cannot be erased.

Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world's great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different cultural backgrounds that make up this rainbow nation, helping you to better understand the values that underpin its diverse society. It reveals how modern Indonesians view themselves and go about their daily lives, and gives advice on how to navigate unfamiliar situations.

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.

In part two of The Volcano Trilogy, the American surfer takes his Filipina penpal from the Philippines to Bali, Indonesia, where their romance simmers between surf sessions and Pan-Pacific cultural observations. A novella of 34K words, non-fiction. (Book 1 of the trilogy is called 'Blue Volcano - Love and Surfing in the Philippines' and book 3 is 'White Volcano - Fifty Words for Love'. All three volumes are available on Kindle, or you can get the paperback which contains all three, entitled 'The Volcano Trilogy - A Philippines Surfing Odyssey')

Stephen Cranton’s mid-life crisis is coming on a decade too early. On a business trip to Indonesia, he evaluates his heartless life after getting challenged by an obnoxious adventure guide on his flight. Soon after landing, Stephen tries to spice up his stale life with a brazen act of spontaneity. Bad move. His impulsiveness sets off a chain of events that leaves in its wake new friends and enemies, along with his wife who is longing for love and desperate enough to fly to Java for a last-ditch marriage intervention. Stephen finds he is desperate enough already, living inside a nightmare ...

Enter the magical world of travel in Southeast Asia! Great information on money and banking safety, the best visas and borders to cross, making a living on the internet, where and when to go to escape the crowds, how to do it right while having the time of your life! Plus, 4 more great towns, in the tradition of the authors previous works! The word on Indonesia, Singapore, and the last of the unspoiled Thai islands. Great photos, entertaining text. The best toolkit of all, for all your travel adventures!

An unexpected trip to a beautiful and exotic land leaves one young woman questioning her life and loyalties. At 30, Australian Danni Pollard seems to have it all; a husband she loves, a successful career, a nice home and supportive family. The annual pilgrimage to Bali was supposed to be a time for rest and relaxation until a chance meeting and an unexpected chain of events leads her on an adventure of a lifetime to wild Borneo. It’s here in this beautiful and exotic land, away from everything that is familiar that Danni begins to question her life. New friendships are formed, including ...

In Bali - Three weeks on the island of The gods, Oliver takes you on an adventure. The last time he was there was around fourteen years ago with his family but this time, he is alone. After having visited a number of places in Europe, he felt the calling to finally go back but didn’t fully know why. This was the same calling that took him to Rhodes, Malta and Israel. From where he is based in Kuta Beach, he visits many other parts of the island. Over the days and weeks that he is there, you will get an idea of what this unique place has to offer. During his journey, it is not just the ...

Jakarta: Hectic, crowded, multicultural, multilingual, historic, futuristic, and a jumbled pile of everything that makes megacities great. But nobody knows Jakarta. Foreigners think it's only a stopover on their way to Bali. This book brings you the joy of Jakarta, from a locals' perspective. Twelve million of us live in this city; there must be something good here. We'll eat tons of street food, go high-end and low-end shopping, ride a bullet train, roam the waterfront, see rock shows, visit mosques and cathedrals, and, of course, drink a lot of coffee. This is local Jakarta: what we ...

Greater Than a Tourist – Jakarta, Java, Indonesia by Hanum Gitarina offers the inside scope on Jakarta. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience.

Greater Than a Tourist: Yogyakarta Indonesia by Fanny Nadia Pollatu offers the inside scoop on Yogyakarta. Most travel guides tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Planning a trip to Indonesia? Master the must-know Indonesian phrases and words that will transform your travel experience across Bali, Jakarta, and beyond. This introductory audio guide equips travelers with practical language skills for authentic interactions with locals, from ordering delicious street food to negotiating at traditional markets.

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga tells the story of Samuel Turvey's expeditions to the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. While there, he discovers an entire recently extinct mammal fauna from the island’s fossil record, revealing how islands support some of the world’s most remarkable biodiversity, and why many of these unique endemic species are threatened with extinction or have already been lost. But as the story unfolds, an unexpected narrative emerges – Sumba’s Indigenous communities tell of a mysterious wildman called the 'mili mongga', a giant yeti-like beast.

Indonesia is an island continent of thousands of islands stretching from the Malay Peninsula to New Guinea. With tropical rainforest, smoking volcanoes, rugged cliffs and dreamlike palm beaches. Indonesia is a melting pot of cultures and religions, of ancient villages and modern civilization. The largest island country in the world, which lures with ethnic diversity and the magic of the exotic.