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    water quality test

    Disclaimer: this test is just iseng-2. No idea how good the quality of the test kit. This test is not to test the suitability for drinking. Many people, including me, consider tap water unsuitable for drinking and recommend using bottled water. We do the same, for cooking and drinking we always...
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    "Illegal" tourist from Aussie

    An Aussie "illegal" visitor, recently sighted in Nusa penida, surely without visa, don't pay tourist tax, naked, so far does not make a fuss and or hurting people. Yuck, a 3m GWS showed up during a dive at Pura Ped dive site, in Nusa Penida, was captured on a GoPro by a scuba diver on Wed...
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    Kenya - August 2023 trip album

    Photo album from our recent trip, 5days hiking hiking Mt. Kenya then a week safari game drive Meru, Samburu, buffalo spring, aberdare, Maasai mara and Nairobi national park. Really enjoyed the trip. We are planning to visit again soon. https://www.flickr.com/gp/wisnupurwanto/hkT8CrEH8J Will add...
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    Nepal - EBC Trekking April 2023

    just returned from Everest Base Camp trekking two weeks ago. Very enjoy the trip, wish to comeback again next year for longer duration at least a month. A bit challenging for both of us who are 115 years old in total. Wife got mild AMS but we managed to reach EBC 5356 m above sea level...
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    Lembeh - June 2022

    After 3 years, we managed to visit lembeh - the muck diving capital of the world. Probably the best muck diving destination to visit, easy to get, 40 minutes drive from the Manado airport via new tol road, and nice accomodation. Here few shot taken during our 4 days diving...
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    Trip to and in Indonesia

    This is our first trip backhome Indonesia during the pandemic Typically we visit Indonesia 2-3 per year. The last trip was January 2020. During the pandemic we've travelled to US, UK, Turkey, and Liveaboard trip in red sea - all went well. No quarantine requirements, no vaccine requirement. No...
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    US Trip May 2021 - Album

    As the title, here is the link to the photo album https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisnupurwanto/albums/72157719506171035/with/51308309882/#:~:text=%3Ca%20data-flickr,utf-8%22%3E%3C/script%3E Spent almost a month there. Will keep adding more pictures to this album. So far my fav pics Black bear...
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    I got frostbite

    Despite my success to reach the summit of mt. Ararat (5137 masl), due to very bad weather (-12C + 55 km/h wind speed) and few thing went wrong, I got frostbite on four of my left hand fingers, not sure the level but middle finger is the worst. Immediately when I reach camp 2. I dipped my...
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    Lockdown@home this what I get

    WFH, no travelling. The city is not lock downed, only curfew but play safe, we stay at home most of time. This what I get with my camera [email protected] by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr [email protected] by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr [email protected] by Wisnu Purwanto...
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    Utah Grand circles (-) Album

    WFH, can't go anywhere except field visit, can't plan for the next trips. In fact, just cancelled my annual leave in April. can only look back our previous trip, this one from last year while we visited our daughter, took the opportunity to test our endurance in the blistering hot 105F (40C)...
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    Scotland, October 2019 Album

    An album from our trip to Scotland, October 2019. Not the best weather for traveling, raining almost everyday, but still enjoyed the trip. We are considering to visit again this year or other destination : Wales, Iceland, Ireland? Any suggestions are welcome. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHWqrVa...
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    Bali January 2020 Album

    We visited Bali End of January 2020. As usual, we spent most of our time at diving destination, ie. Tulamben and Padang bai. click below pic to visit our album. will add more pics
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    Cloud Storage

    I don't know much about cloud storage although I use free Onedrive to store and transfer some of my pics. Had no intention to put all my pics and video (total approx. 3 TB) in cloud. I put all my pics in my 4TB portable HD and back-up (manual, and not regular) into CDs. But something happened...
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    Red Sea Wrecks - diving trip

    We recently joined the Get Wrecked red-sea liveaboard trip Emperor Superior. Here - short report and few pictures as usual. Understood this forum is about expat community in Indonesia. I'm not Indo expat - just a TKI and this thread is not about Indonesia. Seem no restriction in the term and...
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    E-statememt CIMB Bank Niaga

    As far as I recall (checked with wife too) I don't have bank account in CIMB Niaga. But since January 2019, I received e-mail from [email protected] with an attachment a PDF file which requires to enter password (birth date in specific format) to open it. Is it legit ? Any body...
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    Juicer

    Not sure if this subforum is the right place just to share our experience; might be applicable for living in Indonesia. We have to retire our more than 20 years old Jack lalane power juicer. The motor still powerful, the blade is sharp but found few cracks on plastic parts. For replacement, we...
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    Bali Pics - August 2018

    Obviously Bali is the most popular tourist destination in Indonesia. Many people say Bali is not attractive anymore, very touristic, over exploited, very artificial, drunk oz, annoying tourist from certain countries, etc. But for us, Bali has its own charm make us keep coming back - even I'm...
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    our flight is cancelled

    Just received email notifications from Turkish air, our flight today Jakarta - istanbul - cairo is cancelled due to bad weather in Istanbul. No flight rescheduling. Instead they offer full cancellation or free rebooking within a year. Not very clear. We also not able to contact any number...
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    Marsa Shagra, Red Sea - Diving Trip

    I know this expat indo forum. But I do not see any restriction not to post a trip report from outside Indonesia. We just returned from 5 days trip to Marsa Shagra village, 700 km southern Cairo. 1 hour 20 minute flight to Marsa alam then another 30 minute drive to the north. We stayed and...
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    Gloria Natapradja: Young girl's dream crushed by Indonesian citizenship law

    I'm more interested with this young lady, if anything we can do to help her. She is innocent. I heard there's small demo to support her to be paskibraka and petition in change.org Edit by Dafluff: Found a link in English. I saw it on today's Jakarta Post, but could not find an online...

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