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I finally uploaded some of my photos from Australia 2008, you’ll need to be a flickr-friend to see many of them.

Ulriken, 23.11.08

I took the train from Jakarta to Yogyakarta on the 10th of April, the whole trip took about 9 hours, but I traveled on Exekutif class where I got some meals and had enough leg room – which is quite rare for anybody over 1.70 m tall in Indonesia. It was a strong contrast to the bus ride from Yogyakarta to the Borobodur temple using local transport.. my legs just did not fit!

Borobodur is a Buddhist temple built in the ninth century, a pyramid with different levels you walk around. All the walls have carved out decorations and motives from all kinds of feasts and feats. Really nice, the rain chased away everybody else so I was alone on the temple.. But after a short while the hawkers came out from wherever they were hiding.

After some days in Yogyakarta I took a bus to Mt. Bromo, south of Surabaya, about 10 hours. The town I stayed in, Cerewa Lawang, should be at about 2000 meters gave me some relief from the heat of the lower parts. We arrived in the evening and got up at about 3am starting for the view point to see the sun rise over the Bromo massive. I was walking with Rowan from Ireland while the rest of the tourists that arrived with us charterd jeeps over the sand sea and up to the view point. We started out in complete darkness, got lost after about 20 minutes and walked through dense vegetation and finally found the second half of the path. But it was a great walk. We got up just after the jeeps, but still in time for the sunrise.

Mt. Bromo is actually made up of the Old Bromo and the New Bromo, the Old Bromo blew its top off and contains a sand sea and a couple of other smaller volcanoes, the one at the bottom of the photo is Mt. Batok – the New Bromo is hidden in the sulphur clouds behind Batok. In the far back above everything is Mt. Semeru – shooting off a cloud every half hour – it is possible to walk up there, but it would take about three days – I am going to that Next Time ™.

As the jeeps and the tourists left we naturally had to walk down again, we took the same path, but this time we were able to see something and we had a great view all the time down, we were back at the hotel by 8 am.

After breakfast we walked over the sand sea (about 40 minutes) and walked up the stairs to the New Bromo and walked around the crater, dodging stinking and nose-itching sulphur clouds. And then back to the hotel for Rowans bus the same afternoon.

New Bromo

I had decided to stay two more nights and rented a mountain bike, had to give away my passport for it, but it was the only rental there.. cost about as much as renting a motorbike in Bali. I biked down to the sand sea and continued to the left of Bromo and eventually ended up in grass coated fields between the steep crater wall of Old Bromo and the slow slopes up to the crater of New Bromo. The contrast could not have been bigger between the scorched north east side of New Bromo and the green south side.

When I finally got up the road up to the outer crater I was met with massive fog and a man who wanted my water bottle, probably just to turn it in and get some rupiahs for it, but he looked pretty bad so I gave it away, not thinking that I had to go back through the sun in the sand desert for about two hours without water.. So without water I decided to turn back then anyway. It would have been about 10-15km to the next village on the road if I had continued on.. and not gotten lost in the fog.

Next morning the bus left at 9 (around 10 indonesian time), when we got down from the mountains we could continue on in a fancy bus with lots of small insects that would bite you if you fell asleep. And something must have died inside the air condition system, every now and then the bus driver would spray something into it, perhaps just something to keep people calm while he drove like a maniac.. But apart from that and a ferry going zig-zag over to Bali the bus ride was eventless.

I stayed two nights in Kuta and left for Sydney on the 18th of April.

There are a few more photos on my flickr page, both from Indonesia as from Australia (you have to sign in and be listed as my friend to see all of them). As I get home in a couple of weeks I will describe them and many more yet to be uploaded.

Cheers! Gaute, Bundaberg

I arrived in the evening around 11 pm in Denpasar, I had purchased my Visa for 25 US$ and walked out of the airport and the heat, humidity and an army of people wanting to transport me, sell me something or guide me almost beat me back inside.

I took a taxi to the Two Brothers Inn, but since Andrei was there 10 years ago they had closed. The taxi driver took me a little further to a rather crappy place.. I killed the cockroch that occupied my bed and went to sleep. So far so good.

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To be able to read all posts and see all photos you have to log in, these steps are translated from german so you should not take everything literally.First you need an Yahoo/Flickr account, in case you allready have an Yahoo account (but no Flickr) you can use it and only have to activate Flickr on it:
1. Go to http://flickr.com
2. Click Sign up
3. In case you have an Yahoo ID you write it in here and go on to step 7 (probably)
4. In case NOT: Sign up down to the right.
5. Here you need to write in a lot of personal information (or from your best friend).
6. Click: Create Account
7. On the next page you need to click: Next under ‘Fit for Flickr’.
8. Now you can write in your new user name and password to log in.
9. And since you still don’t have an Flickr account you need to click: Create new account
10. Now write the address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauteh/.
11. Hold the mouse over the small photo of me up to the left and click on the arrow.
12. Click Do you want to add Gaute as contact?
13. Mark Mark as friend or family and OK

To be able to use the same user name and password you need to activate OpenID.
1. Go to: http://openid.yahoo.com
2. Click: First steps
3. Sign in once more.
4. Write in the code you get and Accept
5. Click: Show personal options at the bottom.
6. Choose one of the alternatives, for instance: https://me.yahoo.com/[user name]
7. Click Save my personal options and Yes in the next window.
8. Now you need to go to: http://gaute.vetsj.com.
9. Up to the left you need to write: yahoo.com in the last field (the OpenID field, see image under).

10. Click: Login
11. Now you will be sent to Yahoo and might have to sign in again.
12. On the OpenID page from Yahoo you need to choose you ID, or let the first one as it is.
13. Click Sign in
14. Now you are sent back to gaute.vetsj.com and are signed in.

The next time you want to sign in to gaute.vetsj.com you just write in yahoo.com like on the image over and sometimes you need to write your user name and password on the page you are sent to, then you are sent back to gaute.vetsj.com; signed in.

On Flickr you write in the user name and password when you want to sign in.

Note that I need to accept you before you get access to the photos and posts, so you won’t notice a difference before I have had access to internet and had a chance to do that.

- gaute

For å kunne lese alle innlegga og sjå alle bileta må ein logge seg inn, denne skrittvise vegvisaren er oversatt i frå tysk so det er mogleg nokre av skritta må takast med ei klype salt.

Først treng du ein Yahoo/Flickr konto, i tilfelle du allereie har ein Yahoo konto (men ingen Flickr) kan du bruke den og må kun aktivere Flickr på den:
1. Gå til http://flickr.com
2. Klikk på Sign up
3. I tilfelle du allereie har ein Yahoo ID kan du skrive den inn her og kan gå vidare til skritt 7 (sannsynlegvis)
4. I tilfelle IKKJE: Trykk på Sign up nede til høgre.
5. Her må du skriv inn ein haug med personlege opplysningar (eller i frå fantasikameraten din).
6. Klikk på Create Account
7. På neste side må du klikke på Next under ‘Fit for Flickr’.
8. No kan du skrive inn ditt nye brukarnamn og passord og logge inn.
9. Og sidan du fortsatt ikkje har nokon Flickr konto klikker du på Create new account
10. No skriv du inn adressa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauteh/.
11. Hald musa over det små bilde av meg oppe til venstre og trykk på pila.
12. Klikk på Do you want to add Gaute as contact?
13. Marker Mark as friend eller family og OK

Og for at du skal kunne bruke det samme brukarnamnet og passordet må du aktivere OpenID.
1. Gå til http://openid.yahoo.com
2. Klikk på First steps
3. Logg inn på nytt.
4. Skriv inn koden du får vist og aksepter (agree).
5. Klikk på Show personal options heilt nede.
6. Velg eit av alternativa, til dømes: https://me.yahoo.com/[brukarnamn]
7. Klikk på Save my personal options og Yes i det neste vindauget.
8. No må du gå til: http://gaute.vetsj.com.
9. Oppe til venstre må du skrive inn: yahoo.com i det nederste feltet (OpenID feltet, sjå bilete under).

10. Klikk på Login
11. Du blir no sendt til Yahoo og må kanskje logge inn på nytt.
12. På OpenID sida til Yahoo velger du din ID, eller lar den først stå som den er.
13. Klikk på Sign in
14. Du blir no sendt tilbake til gaute.vetsj.com og er logga inn.

Når du seinare vil logge deg inn på gaute.vetsj.com skriv du ganske enkelt yahoo.com inn som vist på bildet over og må av og til skrive inn brukarnamn og passord på sida du blir sendt til, før du blir sendt tilbake til gaute.vetsj.com

På Flickr skriv du inn brukarnamnet og passordet når du vil logge deg inn.

Hugs at du ikkje kjem til å merke noken forskjell før eg har hatt tilgang til internett og har hatt moglegheit til å gje deg tilgang til innlegg og bilete.

- gaute

Hier kommt eine kurze Beschreibung über wie man meine Fotos beim Flickr sehen kann und hier die ganzen Reisebriefe lesen kann.

Zu erst brauchst du eine Yahoo/Flickr konto, falls du eine Yahoo konto schon haben (aber keine Flickr) kannst du die alte benutzen um Flickr auf diser zu aktivieren:
1. Geh zu http://flickr.com
2. Klick auf Erstellen Sie Ihren Account
3. Hast du schon eine Yahoo ID kannst du den hier eingeben und weiter zu Scritt 7 gehen (wahrscheinlich)
4. FALLS nicht: Klickst du auf Registriren unten rechts.
5. Hier musst du ein haufen von persönliche daten eingeben (oder von deine Fantasifreund).
6. Klick auf Account Erstellen
7. Auf die nächste seite muss du unter ‘Fit für Flickr’ auf Weiter drucken.
8. Jetzt kannst du mit deine neue benutzername und passwort einloggen.
9. Und weil du noch keinen Flickr account hättest druckst du jetzt auf Neuen Account Erstellen
10. Jetzt gibst du die adresse: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauteh/ ein
11. Halt die Maus über das kleine Foto oben links von mir, druck auf die Pfeil.
12. Klick auf Möchten Sie gauteh als Kontakt hinzufügen
13. Markier Als Freund kennzeichnen und OK

Damit du die gleiche benutzerdaten auf meine seite benutzen kannst muss du erstmal OpenID aktivieren.
1. Geh zu http://openid.yahoo.com
2. Klick auf Erste Schritte
3. Nochmal einloggen
4. Geb die angezeigte Code ein und stimm zu.
5. Klick auf Optionen für die Personalisierung anzeigen ganz unten.
6. Nimm einer von die alternativen, zum Beispiel: https://me.yahoo.com/[benutzername]
7. Klick auf Meine Personalisirungen speichern und Ja in das nächste Fenster.
8. Jetzt muss du zu http://gaute.vetsj.com gehen (wo du wahrscheinlich gerade bist).
9. In das feld oben rechts wo man sich einloggen kann, schreibst du yahoo.com in das letzte feld.

10. Klick auf Login
11. Du wirst dann nocmal zu Yahoo geschickt und muss möglicherweise nochmal einloggen.
12. Auf die OpenID seite von Yahoo suchst du deine ID aus, oder lässt die erste stehen.
13. Klick auf Anmelden
14. Du wirst dann zurückgeschickt nach gaute.vetsj.com und bist eingeloggt.

Wenn du später bei gaute.vetsj.com dich einloggen willst gibst du yahoo.com wie bei ersten mal ein, dann musst du villeich bei Yahoo deine benutzerdaten eingeben.

Bei Flickr gibst du deine Yahoo daten ein wenn du dich einloggen willst.

Du wirdst aber kein unterschied sehen bevor Ich internetzugang hatte und dich zugang zu meinem fotos und reisebriefe gegeben habe.

- gaute

I decided that many of my posts and entries should not be open for everybody to read, the same way as the photos. And since the posts almost always include photos from Flickr you would need to log in anyway.

If you signed up for an account on Flickr/Yahoo! so that you could watch all my photos you can use that account to log in here. This is done through something called OpenID which Yahoo supports, you just needs to activate it. This you do here: http://openid.yahoo.com. Your OpenID is an identity that can be used throughout the web so that you have the same identity on all sites you use it on.

When you have activated your OpenID on Yahoo! you get an URL or link to your identity, something like: me.yahoo.com/a/[lots of stuff] and you can create your own URL, like: me.yahoo.com/[your name] or http://www.flickr.com/photos/[user name]. This URL is your identifier. If you are using Yahoo you need to out yahoo.com in the OpenID field when you want to log in for instance on gaute.vetsj.com. Then you will be redirected to a page where you need to authorize gaute.vetsj.com to be able to access your profile and choose which URL or identity you want to use. Then you are redirected back to gaute.vetsj.com and are logged in as this. And every time you want to log in you just put in yahoo.com in the OpenID box.

When that is done you just need to wait until I have noticed that you are registered and I allow you to read all items I post here.

Of course you can use your OpenID on any other site that allows it.

If you don’t want to use Yahoo!’s OpenID you might want to try one of the others (or you might allready have one somewhere else). Note that on most other providers you put your identity url in the OpenID box, ie: yourname.myopenid.com and not just myopenid.com like with yahoo.com.

- gaute