Kediri > Samblur (90km, 4h10)

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Hello :-) It has been a week since I haven’t uploaded this website. I did not find the opportunity to do it because I don’t like showing off my electronics devices when I meet people or stop along the way. Indonesia is not the richest country and my bike is special enough. One good thing, I did not forget to take pictures to remember each of these unique days :-) So let’s start the story of this week! In fact, I’ve stayed at Maria’s place one entire week. I did not expect that at all but the feeling was good so I took the time. This morning, I’m on the road again. Thank you Maria so much for your kind welcome! I had good time and a good rest :-)
My time in Indonesia being quite limited, I will have to find the way to be faster to get to Dumai before the 17th of August. My actual plan is to cycle to Yogyakarta and then catch a train to Merak from where I will catch a ferry to Sumatra. Then I will improvise. This morning I left around 7:30am and stopped at a local supermarket to recharge my internet. The staff helped me to managed that on my mobile as it’s a serie of text message to send to get there. My internet was finally topped up after 10 minutes :-) Then one of the staff asked for a photo and her co-workers wanted one as well with their own mobile. Then we took a group photo and another one outside with the bike (We started doing pictures inside) and finally I wanted my one too :-). At 8:15am I was back on the road. I’m not going to go very far at this pace haha.

To get to the west I must turn around this mountain in the center called Ngliman Mount. I’ve chose to go North because when I went to the beach with Maria and her family we took the south road. So I can visit another part.

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The side of the road is filled with different fields like corn, rice and this one that I don’t recognise the plant. Very useful isn’t it? I like being so informative sometimes ;-)

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There is lots of traffic on the road. In fact, there is not any secondary road to get to the other side of the mountain. The road is flat I’m pretty quick.

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That’s the first time I see the public train, the one I will catch from Yogyakarta or soon after.

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more rice fields. This one is going to be planter soon I guess. They spread some bunches of young rice shoot in the area.


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I did not take any more picture this afternoon. I’ve been cycling through the Madiun and expected to be quick enough to get out and find a spot for the night. As the sunset was on its way, I was looking for a warung where to stop for dinner. I stopped at Broto’s warung and met the boss in person. His name is Broto :-) I had some mie ayam (mie : noodles, ayam : chicken) and some es teh (ice tea) twice. I was hungry! Broto is a nice guy and knew that I did not know where I was going to sleep, he invited me to sleep in his restaurant. Hey, thank you :-)

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We spent some time chatting at his place and then we went by car to his first warung. In fact, Broto has two warung on the same road, 5 minutes from each other. We stayed there an hour or so. I met Warso (on this picture), one of his friend and employee who could speak a bit english like Broto. Finally around 10pm, they stated closing the warung and we got back to Broto’s warung number two.

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Broto and his wife offered me to take a shower and sleep inside their place. I could even fit my bike inside. As always, no plan ends always with good news :-) Thanks guys! Selamat Malam (Good night).

One thought on “Kediri > Samblur (90km, 4h10)

  1. Lucky! you are always attracting kind people around you.

    I was amazed by the map which how much you have traveled since the last blog!

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