Zey Says

In November 2018, Jet and I decided to try hiking Mount Bromo and Ijen in Indonesia to celebrate his birthday. Kindly note that these two volcanoes (although both are called "Mount) are about 7-hour drive away from each other. I missed this information during my research and was left with the mercy of our Indonesian driver with very limited English who failed to inform us that we are allowed to do stopovers along the way to check and enjoy other scenery in Surabaya. Anyway, Ijen is breathtaking, specifically in pictures. It can be pretty cold when doing the hike early morning but it is all worth it. Mount Ijen crater the sandy way to Mount Bromo Mount Bromo Indonesia Cloudy and cold on top.  stairway to Bromo crater 4x4 ride to Mount Bromo stairs to Mount Bromo crater Lazy tourists took horses  🐎  to bring them to the crater. We just walked our way up, around 2km for 1.5 hours! Walang pambayad sa kabayo!  😅 Th...

I am the most adventurous member of the family when it comes to travelling. Perhaps because after seeing lots of places, I've come to realize that people are more helpful than harmful in general, specifically when tourists ask for help. My mother and relatives were usually amazed how I managed to get to a place alone whenever I recount my travel diary. I went to Gala Yuzawa Ski Resort on my own because a day before that, my friend Eva and I had a bit of heated argument after getting lost finding our way to Hakone from Mejiro station in Tokyo. I blamed her long make-up routines and waking-up late, thus the reason for the delay in getting to Hakone and she lashed out on me for being carefree and being too reliable on her for not doing any research on how to properly go to Hakone . We boarded the wrong trains and the ending, we arrived in Hakone very late, left with nothing to do but board the train again back to Tokyo. It was sort of a wasted day because we did not maximize t...