After a short detour by the biggest buddhist temple in the world, Borobudur, we made our way to Malang through nice and fresh coll volcanic mountains with also one stop in an aircon mall with nice playground for Elios. When we stopped for the night in a village near a waterfall, a woman came to us saying: "Filip! Is this your son Elios? And where is Augusta?" She'd seen us and the bus in a newspaper article (see last post). Meanwhile, in France, they are publishing our first 2 months until Mongolia on the national Super VW magazine: 4 double pages and plenty of photos!!
No problem on the road, we're getting used to it even if it is not so easy, my biggest fear was when a monkey jumped on me to try to catch Elios's shiny feeding bottle at the waterfall!
After that we spent a few days in Malang, hosted by 2 Polish guys Dawid and Marcin, who teach English here in Indonesia. Marcin also has a very nice business organizing practices for Europeans in Malang, as a cultural experience. They introduced us to many people, Indonesian and foreigners, and we got together to the closest beach on the ocean, Golacina, a spot really unknown by foreigners. Last hours before leaving Malang we visited a Danish-Indonesian Muslim family which was very unique: Hassan is into ecology and sustainability for 30 years now and gave us a lot of tips and information for our future life. Filip took time to meet the vw people in Malang. Helped Mario with his black low rider bug to regulate his carb, and distributor. Mario in turn took him on a tour of vw shops and garages in an effort to fix the muffler, and the overcharging problem of the bus. On the way to Goacina in the heavy rain, the radio blew up in smoke and all the lights, and bulbs went out. It was due to overcharging, and thus battery went dry. After finding the distilled water, the problem diminished. In one shop the mechanic adjusted the regulator so it would charge less, but that is a half way sollution, next thing to do would be to find a regulator. The coil is overheating heavyly too, to the point that it starts to oooze out. Mario also showed to Filip a cool vw shop, led by Tarima, a muslim woman who lives in the shop along with the spare used and new parts. She kept the shop for over 25 years.
No problem on the road, we're getting used to it even if it is not so easy, my biggest fear was when a monkey jumped on me to try to catch Elios's shiny feeding bottle at the waterfall!
After that we spent a few days in Malang, hosted by 2 Polish guys Dawid and Marcin, who teach English here in Indonesia. Marcin also has a very nice business organizing practices for Europeans in Malang, as a cultural experience. They introduced us to many people, Indonesian and foreigners, and we got together to the closest beach on the ocean, Golacina, a spot really unknown by foreigners. Last hours before leaving Malang we visited a Danish-Indonesian Muslim family which was very unique: Hassan is into ecology and sustainability for 30 years now and gave us a lot of tips and information for our future life. Filip took time to meet the vw people in Malang. Helped Mario with his black low rider bug to regulate his carb, and distributor. Mario in turn took him on a tour of vw shops and garages in an effort to fix the muffler, and the overcharging problem of the bus. On the way to Goacina in the heavy rain, the radio blew up in smoke and all the lights, and bulbs went out. It was due to overcharging, and thus battery went dry. After finding the distilled water, the problem diminished. In one shop the mechanic adjusted the regulator so it would charge less, but that is a half way sollution, next thing to do would be to find a regulator. The coil is overheating heavyly too, to the point that it starts to oooze out. Mario also showed to Filip a cool vw shop, led by Tarima, a muslim woman who lives in the shop along with the spare used and new parts. She kept the shop for over 25 years.
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