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>"As someone who visits Indonesia ..." I was curious, do you visit for work or just recreational travel? I would love to see more of it. Any recommendations ou
by bogomipz 4y ago
>"As someone who visits Indonesia ..."
I was curious, do you visit for work or just recreational travel? I would love to see more of it. Any recommendations outside of the usual Bali or very touristy places?
- brnt 4y agoThat's like asking what the best place to visit in the US is, besides the Grand Canyon. There are so many!
- bogomipz 4y agoAnd yet people ask for travel recommendations for the US all the time and people are happy to give them, often for the specific region of the country that they are from or familiar with. You realize there's an entire travel industry that runs on this very premise right?
- brnt 4y agoTrue, there's good money to be made off googling for people.
- zakki 4y agoHere are some places: - Lombok (east of Bali) - Raja Ampat (West Papua) - Mentawai (northern part of Sumatra) - Yogyakarta (has its own autonomy, kingdom based province). From here you can visit Borobudur. 8th century Buddhist temple, largest in the world - Bunaken a small island in North Sulawesi Find more information in internet.
- neurostimulant 4y agoOutside of Bali, you won't have too much problem visiting major cities in java without knowing the language. Yogyakarta is a nice place to visit. The city strongly preserve their culture (compared to other city in Indonesia), the people are friendly, and cost of living is cheap (compared to other big cities in java). Outside of Java, other comments mentioned Raja Ampat in West Papua which is really beautiful, but please remember that West Papua is one of the least developed part of Indonesia with ongoing armed conflicts, so there is always risk (however small it is) when exploring that region.