When you are travelling to Indonesia, remember that Indonesia is a tropical country. It's relatively hot here.
There is nothing special about clothing In Indonesia. Dress is normally casual and light clothing is advisable due to the hot and humid climate. Trousers or slacks and shirts are generally considered appropriate but a jacket and tie are required for formal occasions or when making official calls. For certain formal occasions long-sleeved batik shirts are acceptable. For travel to mountain areas, a light sweater or jacket is recommended.Halter-tops and shorts are frowned upon in most places except around sport facilities or on the beach. Proper decorum should especially be observed when visiting places or worship. Indonesians are very polite people. Handshaking is customary both for men and women on introduction and greeting, and smiling is a national characteristic. The use of the left hand to give or receive is taboo, also crooking your finger to call someone is considered impolite. Pork is forbidden for the Muslim population and beef for the Balinese Hindus but they are available at many restaurants and markets.
Travel Tips : You could leave some of your clothes at home and buy a new one in Indonesia. Since its very cheap here, you can just dump them before you go back home. You can save some of your precious space in your luggage to put your other important things.
Indonesia Travel Tips: Dress & Manner
Banjarmasin City of River -Part 1
Banjarmasin is a city in South Kalimantan (Borneo). Last week, I had a chance to visit Banjarmasin for the first time. This is the first part of my experience to visit that city.
Since there ara many aircraft accidents lately, I decided to choose Garuda to fly with. Garuda is the safest flight carrier in Indonesia.
Worse of the worst, at the same day to my flight, Garuda also had a terrible accident in Yogyakarta (more than 10 people died). Imagine how afraid I am then to fly only a few hours later. See the fig on the left, thats the photo I took on the same day with the accident at Sukarno-Hatta Airport Jakarta. It shows many reporter try to capture one of the family victim visiting Garuda Care Center.
During the flight, I experienced many turbulence and it scared me, really. I never afraid to fly before, but this time, I'm.
Fortunately we land savely at Syamsoedin Nur Airport of Banjarmasin. Thank God.....
We stay at Hotel Banjarmasin International, I don't think that I will ever stay at that Hotel anymore. We got the most expensive room available the suite room, since all the other room already booked. The room is dirty, and considering the rate around USD 100, the room is not convenient. It doesn't worth your money at all, trust me.
Tommorow, I will go to Pasar Apung (Floating Market) over Barito river. I will write it on my next post.
See You.
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