Feeling increasingly confident about my regular routes through Semarang, I decided to try taking an angkot (public minivan) again. This time my van was much more full of people and much less full of fruit, so all the passengers played a rousing game of “guess the foreigner’s age.” Since everyone was guessing numbers in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transportation’
Transportation 301, or, Da Me Mas Gasolina!
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged transportation on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Public Transportation 201: The Dokar
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged transportation on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Made a day trip to Yogyakarta recently to accompany my university’s English student club on an outing to meet another English student club at a different university. The other chaperone and I split after the formalities of the morning introductions to enjoy the tourist and shopping attractions that Yogya has to offer, and met up [...]
Public Transportation 101: The Angkot
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged transportation on October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Semarang has a few options for public transportation. For my first 7 weeks here I have been taking taxis everywhere because 1) they run 24 hours a day, 2) the driver can take me directly to my destination, and 3) that’s the only form of public transport I knew how to use. However, I live [...]
