New Journey, New Plans

A new journey means new planning, and as a result I get to bury my head in travel books and the internet scouring the pages for recommendations and sites I should see.  It’s always a good time going throughall the pages as it’s then that I really start to get excited about the possibilities a place can offer.  Sometime’s that excitment can border on the obsessive really but that just helps me get into the work.

So highlighter at the ready I’ve started my planning for Indonesia, picking out each of the places of interest to me as and when I see things that draw me in.  Later I’ll have to weed through what I want to see, along with other people’s wish lists for the trip and try and fit it all in to a feasable plan but for now it’s about getting the giddy thrill of the potential wonders.  If only time weren’t an issue in these things and then I could just traipse round things as I felt like it.  (I am still tied to the world of work though so alas for now time is my enemy)

At the moment the big things that are catching my attention are the temples and the volcanoes on Java.  Borobodur and Prambanan both look absolutely awesome and comparing them to some of the other big temples I’ve seen elsewhere should be interesting.  As for volcanoes, the prospect of seeing lava is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time and to finally be in a volcanic area with active eruptions occurring is something I’ve wanted for a very long time.