Day 81

19/09/2009

The beach was as disappointing as expected, with about 1 metre of grey sand and non too inviting water. The range of barges moored just 25 metres off shore provided some interest.

The swimming pool was a lot better but they were cleaning it when I checked about 7:00 so we skipped that too.

Driving this morning was very easy with a toll dual carriageway taking us east to Jakarta and then south-east to Bandung.

Then it all went horribly wrong. We joined the back of a queue of traffic at 13:00 and moved 6km in the next 3 hours. The flow wasn't much better after that and the 100km to Cirebon took us until 22:00. Ramadan finished at 14:30 - we should have stopped at noon and joined in the party.

Got a scrape in the passenger rear wheel arch when a yellow lorry decided he wasn't going to let us filter in front of him into the single lane ahead. Same corner as the damage in Turkey, so will need some filler and the spray gun when we get home.

Lat 6 43.14 S
Long 108 34.12 E
Town Cirebon