Balikpapan Travel Blogs

The Blue Sky Hotel offer you buffet breakfast. Plenty of options, variety of bread, soups, fried rice, sauges,bacon(made from beef), fruits, cereals, fruits etc. Than we left to SMAN 2 Balikpapan. Well..it was the project that i told you before..let's not get into details. But I had the chance to e…

This is the first part of the blog.I once joined the Balikpapan Orangutan Society, Borneo, in the release of 33 orangutans back to their natural habitat. The orangutans had been taken care of by Wanariset Samboja conservatory for endangered species in Borneo, Indonesia, because recent fires were de…

This new restaurant in Balikpapan - located near to the jail beside the main street. The specialities is grilled fresh fish - there are mullets, garoupa, snapper etc. Today we went there and try their grilled mullets, which tastes so good, with the spicy-sweet sauce. Accompanied by spicy chili past…

This is Part II of Trekking in Borneo Rainforest.The orangutans were unique creatures. They live in Borneo rainforest. Orangutan simply means “man of the jungle” in Malay. They looked curious and attentive to what was going on around them. The younger ones were just trusting and unafraid of …

Lessons learned: It was very difficult to do the packing with hangover, so… if you know that you’ll travel early in the morning on the next day.. make sure you’ve had everything ready to go! If you know that you’ll be dancing and jumping like crazy, observe and estimate what maximum hei…

fruit (countable and uncountable; plural fruits) 1. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. 2. (nutrition) Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

We, human... we live, we eat, we drink!!!!:)))))

I am working in a service company for oil industry. Sometimes we have to go offshore and stay for couple of days up to several weeks. We stayed in an accommodation barge or big ship. The ship has accommodation room, dining room, gathering room and connected directly to the oil well. The ship has bi…

Balikpapan in the heaven for parties.. any kind of parties…beside the pool, at the house, at the bar…   This time we throw a farewell party for Kalimantan Base Manager (can’t say that farewell is a sad moment, eh?)…   Dress code is Cowboys (and cow girls come along as well) &…

When the sun sets in the west...

Several idioms using the word flower and related to something beautiful, playful, nice,.i.e: flower generation, flower child, flowery words, etc. As one quote: "Flowers are happy things." - Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse. For me, flower is one among the greatest God's gifts, their shape and color, their fragrance and stems, their beauty seems to ignore their surrounding. Flowers and green.. that actually what our eyes need other than vitamin A:p

Finally,i had chances to explore the beauty of Indonesia. We've decided to go to Karimun Jawa. It has many small islands around. They all offer you white sands, clear, blue and calm ocean, beautiful undersea view. Heaven on earth!!