Articles tagged with: visa
Getting a 30-Day Tourist Visa Extension in Indonesia
I’m no expert in the process of getting Indonesian tourist visas and visa extensions, but I thought I’d share my most recent experience in case it might help someone else go through the process.( I don’t know anything about the 30-day visa on arrival. The following applies only to the 60-day tourist visa.)
Here are the brief facts:
The Horror of Cycling Into Cebu City
Tuesday September 23, 2014
11:25 a.m. Cebu City
A lot has happened very quickly in the short time since the Aloha Pink House. The town of Carcar was only about 40 kilometers from Cebu City, but those 40 kilometers might as well have been 400. That’s standard for whenever you try to cycle into or out of a major metropolitan center. I had hoped that the traffic …
Riding to a Viewpoint Over Cebu
Street scene outside the window of this 7-11: four street boys sleeping on the sidewalk. Very dirty and dishevelled. Two little boys and one much larger boy. One little boy has no clothes except for an over-sized T-shirt. The T-shirt has hiked up over his body, so he is pretty much naked lying there on the street. His little butt cheeks are exposed to the …
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Sunday, March 11 8:30 a.m. Kissidougou
I’m tired this morning not having slept well last night. My dreams were filled with barrages and angry little men waving guns and shouting. Not surprising considering the day I had.
My guardian angel the Good Conde let me down. I was at the gendarmerie post with my bicycle a couple minutes before 7:00 as we’d arranged but though a few …
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Thursday, March 8 – 8:35 a.m. Macenta
I listened to the BBC the night before I left Nzerekore to come here to Macenta. I hadn’t heard anything about Guinea and border fighting for a while and going on the assumption that no news is good news didn’t want to hear anything now. But the top news story for Africa was a statement by Liberia’s defense minister …
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Wednesday, January 10 7:00 p.m.
On the road again, fifty-eight kilometres up the road from Kindia in the small town of Sogueta. There’s no hotel here and I find myself camping out in the dirt lot behind the local hospital. There’s a respectable latrine and a good supply of water right at hand so with my tent, Thermarest, stove, and other technological marvels it’s quite comfortable …