hi my name is Josie I'm a traveler from Australia and along with my boyfriend Michael I'm seeing the
very best of what southeast Asia has to offer and documenting it all on film at the end of 2021 we
decided to sell all of our things pack our bags and book a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia we
made it to Bangkok and we've been exploring ever since last week I landed in Jakarta Indonesia for
the very first time it's really pretty here this is my sixth new country this year and one we have
been so excited to see in my last two videos I explored the old city ate my very first nasi
Goring like I really like it that's good so good found out you can't eat bakso with chopsticks
I fell in love with Indonesian street food especially Matabak
Indonesia has the best pancakes the best one I'm sorry I'm sorry I have to be honest on
this Indonesia trip we have a plan to start in Jakarta and make our way to somewhere on
my bucket list Bali but we don't just want to fly or take cross-country trips we want to see what
local life has to offer so we're setting out on our adventure across Java by train in this video
we start in Bandung an amazing and popular city not too far from Jakarta unfortunately we both
got very sick on arrival in Bandung and missed out on some of the things that we wanted to do but we
won't let that stop us we managed to get down to Braga Street and see a highly rated coffee shop
before boarding our train to the cultural capital of John Jakarta and being pleasantly surprised by
the incredible quality and value of Indonesian train travel in 2022. we wouldn't have seen any
of this if we flew I have already found so many new Indonesian friends along the way and hope
that maybe you'll join me so press that subscribe button and let's go travel Indonesia by one of the
best train systems in Southeast Asia so welcome back or welcome if you're new here my name is
Josie welcome to my channel so this is Bandung this is a really really a cool Street and we got
here and unfortunately we both felt a little bit ill so this is the first time we've actually been
out of our hotel because this is the first day that we feel really good there's a man with a hi
there's a man with his cendol there walking across the road just Invincible like that is so cool but
we are on our way now um because you want to see Indonesian train travel right well we have loved
it so far so we're going to show you the process and the first thing is to get your tickets is it
not second thing is the first thing it's across this road so a little hack I would recommend
downloading the kai Express app and you can get your tickets through there then what you have to
do you have an hour to go to the closest um is it just indomart or is there anything yet including
your closest Indo maret and then you can pay for your tickets there and it's done which I've never
done at home in Australia that's not really how we buy tickets so this is how we've been buying
our tickets so we're on their way now to get them and pay for them for at the Endo marad yeah hi
everyone is so friendly this is my a really good first walk out properly in bandung so
that's really cool I can't do it sorry I'll get there one day cash only okay we'll go get some
cash out first okay yeah Michael actually all these cards skimmed in Malaysia so we can't use
his card for anything so we're trying to figure out which ATMs have the least fees
or something because my card's the only one we can use now this one just took like it was 3.40
which is like what two dollars American normally the one that we had in our old
um uh our hotel in uh Jakarta that was like 50 cents that was really good so I'm not going
to use a link but we'll see what that one says next time we'll try that one next time
thank you so we have our tickets and we even topped up some of our um like data on our
phones um so that we have more uh internet so I know that we haven't spent that much time here
because we've been unwell so make sure you do tell me in the comments down below where
we have to visit when we do come back to Vandal Hi how are you how are you doing good good okay
block face yes um one with sugar and one with no sugar uh sugar oh we do perfect yes two ice
lattes please we arrived about I don't know three days ago or something like that and I
was feeling quite unwell and then I made Michael feel quite unwell so this is the first time that
we've actually been able to come out we've had a coffee but unfortunately like I said we haven't
been able to do all the things that we were actually planning to do here we're gonna go
up like the mountains like the volcanoes like do all this stuff all this fun stuff go check
out some malls we're going to see Diego or another Street uh videos of the Night Market
as well and have some local street food because Indonesia like many Southeast Asian countries
the different cities that you go to have different uh street foods you can only sort of get in this
area although specializes area so we didn't get through that either so make sure you do like I
said let me know what we'll have to come back for but luckily we're feeling better for our
next destination which is yogakana which you're going to see us is it yoga color I'm having a
really really hard time with the names here in these small towns in Java so we're gonna
head there and we're gonna catch the train we're going to show you what the train is about how to
do it what it's like it's a seven hour trip groups are going to see all of that tomorrow
okay good morning we are currently on walking route to the train station we just made it we
stayed pretty much literally across the road last night so it was really easy just to walk
well it was a short distance to walk it wasn't easy to walk the sidewalk was a little bit yeah
not not dodgy yeah um so it was a little bit hard to walk on but now we have flat surface so we're
just heading to the train now and we still have about on about 40 minutes until it leaves so we
got into the part where we checked in there's like an ATM there there's a little Endo maret so you
can get some water and then you walk up through the station we had to go up some more escalators
across some platforms across some more platforms down some more escalators and then we finally got
to our train so this is our train super long we're in Carriage one and we're also in an
executive seat I know I've seen a lot of like four dollar seats and stuff on YouTube but I actually
broke my back a few years ago if you don't know so I can't sit in a like a that kind of seat for
seven hours it just will literally kill my back again so we have an executive seat and like we
said yesterday it was fifty dollars each round about that I'll put it on the screen so let's
go in let's have this next seven hours inside of this train and I'm going to show you more
about the seats and what sort of facilities are on the train as well so it's about to leave let's go
too tomorrow
so we've actually just stopped for a little bit we stopped for a little bit before
and now we've stopped now I think we just stop at some intervals and stop
at different places but look how long the train is and look how beautiful this is
the plants everywhere here and then you've got someone working there people getting off there
this is really cool the seats are quite big like pretty big in comparison
um they recline so far you just press a button and you go pretty much to halfway which is really
really comfortable you have a foot rest for your feet and you have two charging ports and then I
we have two behind us but normally each seat would have two which is so helpful it's such a long trip
yeah it's a really comfortable space to spend time in it's been we've been on the train now for about
9 10 11 maybe three hours and it really doesn't feel like that at all it's literally going by
so fast um but yeah it's nice to just stop for a little bit because sometimes it's like
you know what I mean and you can actually see outside right now but we've seen so many
like really cool like Rice Terraces really really beautiful beautiful
Greenery like scenery I can't get over how beautiful it is here like honestly Indonesia
is amazing like the the Landscapes The Greenery everything like that the pasture everything that
you drive past absolutely stunning it is so nice and I would highly recommend taking a
train if you travel through Indonesia just to get honestly this this view this experience see
more things we wouldn't have seen any of this if we flew so I know I'm rambling on a little
bit but I would highly recommend travel and it's quite affordable this is a seven hour
trip the one we took from Jakarta to Bandung was um I don't know 12 or something so yeah
highly recommend taking this way to travel if you're going to travel around Indonesia
okay so we are going to go and get some food from the cart there's like a card
or a store where you can grab some food from you can also order on the
app but right now we're gonna go and grab some food and I'll show you where that is
okay there are a lot of carts but I think I might be here maybe
foreign wow
wow
I cannot get over this
it's so beautiful okay let's see if we can get some food yeah oh sorry sorry
thank you very much yeah
oh yum
um
uh what drinks do you have we have for the rice we have fried rice and then we have Nasi Gori
and we have fried rice yeah yeah okay yes that one anything else excuse me yeah
okay and you have like Coke or a drink oh I'm sorry or cook it's not a flavor
but we have like China potato and then a puppy yeah it's milk
coffee milk coffee okay I might have a drink later but I'll get the food
that smells good foreign
okay that was very quick I'm probably really loud right now but we got the
fried rice so let's go back to our seat and we'll give this to Michael
yourself
so we are here in Jakarta how exciting we got off the train we're about to get a grab
but we're here and this is one of the busiest streets I've probably crossed but Indonesia
streets are insane in all of Southeast Asia that I've visited so far Indonesian streets
are the craziest so in a good way we love we love some busy traffic yeah I'm ready ready
oh that wasn't as bad as I thought let's go have a look at this sign
and see hi hi this is a Vibe guys can you hear like so there's like music in the background I'm
not sure if you can hear that everyone's out here everyone's friendly this is really cool here this
honestly straight off the bat looks like such a beautiful city a beautiful part of the city
really nice a really good vibe I don't know how else to say good vibe without saying good vibe
you know so these are the stats uh statues sign things up here what are they called
whenever I talk to you guys like Words leave my head but there them up there they look
um really interesting and obviously have a meaning to jog Jakarta so if you know leave them in the
comments below I would love to know what that is because we did go to the puppet show in um Jakarta
so we'd have an idea of some of the background but it's in front of the jog Jakarta sign so it must
be pretty important let me down in the comments below if you know what that is but this this city
looks amazing that's how easy it is to travel across country in Indonesia we've been traveling
all year all through southeast Asia and Michael and I both said that Indonesia is probably the
easiest for cross-country travel like that like the trains were on time we had we didn't really
have any issues whatsoever and it was really good to see like the landscape I said this when we're
on the train it's so beautiful honestly you do not have to pick executive I broke my back so it's
really hard for me to sit in chairs that aren't padded so that's why we went a little bit more
expensive you totally don't have to there's more affordable options to the main street of Georgia
Carter is actually right here at the Central Station which is pretty awesome that's one of
the other advantages I think of train travel sorry that's one of the other advantages of train travel
here in Indonesia is that you kind of get spat out right in the middle of it all so yeah this is the
main street of Georgia car I think we're going to explore that tomorrow yeah so coming up in a
few videos we'll go explore the down there what's over there and the city of Georgia Carter okay so
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you John Jakarta in a video coming up so make sure you do put the Bell on so you don't miss
it and I'll see you in the next one in the next video we will explore what the locals refer to
as jogja I meet some very interesting people along the way I speak to some fun local women who made
me some delicious noodles and helped me practice Indonesia I also found a cultural gem with true
trees that they say if you can walk between them blindfolded from far away it means like
you have good luck will I make it subscribe and find out I'll see you in the next one