I have had a whole week off from work and only managed to get out of this city for one day. Not okay. One day me and Angie managed to get to a mall to purchase the rest of the items we needed for our apartment, which felt good to finally do. Saturday night we went out to a bar in Kemung. The night was clearly successful as we spent all day sunday lying on the floor of our living room. Sunday evening we met up with some co-workers and headed to dinner at a nearby French restaurant which was fantastic.
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| Our night out. |
On monday I woke up with the intention of leaving the apartment. I could not stand the idea of spending another day sitting on the couch watching TV. So Angie and I did some research and decided to head to Taman Mini. Basically it is a museum with smaller museums and small versions of the most famous building in Indonesia. We managed to make it to Bali, Jogjakarta, East Java, Papua, and Sulawesi all in one day!
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| The life of the chase is the chase of a lifetime. |
We spent the first portion of the day finding our way around and exploring the Asmat museum. The Museum was filled with interested information and artifacts about the Asmat people, and Angie and I were lucky enough to be able to try on some of the national dress, and to play a few of the national drums. How cool!
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| Asmat dress and drums! |
We grabbed a quick lunch, which was the worst food I've had since I got here, but it filled me up and I was ready to head off and find the Komodos. Along the way to the Komodo museum we stopped at several of the various famous buildings from around Indonesia. I got to sit in a Buddhist temple, and it reminded me that one of my goals for being here was to research Buddhism more, so I'm going to get started on that goal soon.
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| Yep. I could get used to this... |
Komodo museum was the best part of the day by far. Before entering the area to touch the Komodo we were asked if we were on our period. Apparently the blood is a trigger or something. We all managed to touch the dragon, though some of us were more nervous than others.
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| EEEEEEEKKK! |
Afterwards we went to look at the snakes and I was able to hold an albino python and a Burmese python. The Burmese was so heavy I could hardly hold him up.
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| Albino Python |
Once we finished at the museum we were wiped and ready to head home. I basically sweat out a while liter of water during the day.
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| Burmese Python |
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