Balikpapan Indonesia Travel Blogs

After a bit of delay departing from KL I finally get to the international airport of Balikpapan. For an international and the b…

This is Part II of Trekking in Borneo Rainforest.The orangutans were unique creatures. They live in Borneo rainforest. Oranguta…

This is the first part of the blog.I once joined the Balikpapan Orangutan Society, Borneo, in the release of 33 orangutans back…

In Balikpapan we stayed in housing compound provided by the company, so roughly we will know whom and whos there. Make a lot of…

My very first trip to Borneo Island (or most of Indonesians use Kalimantan). Yippiee! Even for works, but when you can travel …

Lessons learned: It was very difficult to do the packing with hangover, so… if you know that you’ll travel early in the …

An evil plan.. it all started with mojitos… There were 5 (brilliant.. I would sayJ ) ladies..to start a party to end all par…

*And stratched my leg in a barbwire - but that's fine! One of the handover I received from my collague when I came here is to …

Hash run is always identic to an evening or night run. Probably because of the circle and the drinking session after that. So w…

The Blue Sky Hotel offer you buffet breakfast. Plenty of options, variety of bread, soups, fried rice, sauges,bacon(made from b…

The company has a community development program called Global Citizenship. This is a voluntary activity organized by the employ…

On Friday night…is a time to loose up in Balikpapan. There was a dinner invitation from Rina – my colleague.   The t…

If Singapore has Marina beach, or Miami has west palm beach... This is Melawai for Balikpapan:p.   Well, maybe a bit to…

And now we’re talking about the girl’s roomJ. The rule of who comes first got the best bed will apply. The rule of going th…

Balikpapan is billed as a city with many expatriates living here. Well, I only saw one foreigner the entire time I was here. So…