Indonesia is another 2023 travel destination that kind of fell into my lap. Indonesia is an insanely large and spread out country that I don’t think you could fully experience without spending and entire year traveling around. That said, I’m hoping to experience as much as I can in the two weeks that I’m lucky enough to be there. Because I’m travelling with my mom, it will be a very thoroughly planned trip, and the first step in planning was to figure out what Indonesia has to offer and then figure out what kinds of things we want to experience. Once I did that, I was able to figure out which ones I could incorporate into our trip. So here’s what I found in my research. Feel free to let me know if I’ve missed anything essential.
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If you don’t do at least 10 of these 35 things in Indonesia, you haven’t really been to Indonesia.
- Spend 15 000 Indonesian Rupiah
- Climb a volcano
- See Komodo Dragons or Orangutans in the wild
- Climb to the top of Borobudur
- Watch the lakes change colour on Flores Island
- See some art
- Eat mie goreng
- Go scuba diving in the Coral Triangle
- Explore the Kraton of Yogyakarta
- Visit Prambanan
- Learn to play the angklung
- Sightsee on Bali
- Relax on the Gili Islands
- Use at least 3 forms of transportation
- Visit the Sacred Monkey Forest
- See the blue flames on Kawah Ijen
- Learn to make Batik
- Learn about local culture
- Witness funeral rites
- Enjoy a kecak performance
- Visit a museum
- Ride a becak
- Eat gudeg
- Experience the hustle and bustle in Jakarta
- Tour a plantation
- Visit a small village
- Try surfing
- See a waterfall
- See the Bogor Botanical Gardens
- Visit the House of Danar Hadi
- Explore the megaliths in Bada Valley
- Eat babi guling
- Spend a day on the beach
- Learn some Bahasa Indonesia
- Eat lots of satay
Indonesia Travel Bingo
Use this link to get your Indonesia Travel Bingo card. Once your card is generated, save the link somewhere you’ll be able to find it again repeatedly and easily – save it to your favorites, email it to yourself, save it in your notes app, or create a shortcut on your phone’s home screen.
- The goal is to get a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line or four corners.
- Bonus points for an X.
- Extra Bonus points for a blackout.
Use the comments to share your winning card.
Prizes:
- My eternal respect for anyone who gets a bingo.
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