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Trip to Kuching

Our days in Indonesia are coming to an end. It is time to head to
Kuching and we are hoping to do it in an adventurous way. We only have
24 hours to get from Yogya to Kunching. Our day began early catching a
plane from Yogya to Pontianak. Arrived at Pontianak around 10 am...
Nobody speaks English. We took cab to the bus station since we are
aware of the daily buses from Pontianak to Kuching...the bus leaves at
9 pm but we want to fit in some river adventure, we ask if we can
travel river up half of the way an meet the bus in Sosok, a town near
the border. They say it's possible and they direct us towards the
place to catch a boat. We start walking, the road becomes a board walk
with enough space for one person, few boards missing but for the most
part steady. People look at us and giggle, some kids greet us with a
loud "hello mister" and they jump in the water. We don't really know
where we are suppose to be going. We see a Polisi station and hope to
get some information, we try to ask "mana kapal Tayan", literally,
where boat Tayan, they don't understand, neither do we, they laugh, we
laugh, look at the dictionary and try again.. finally we think they
understood and they write and address in a paper. We rush back to a
road signal to a micro bus, show the adress and get on. The guy drops
us off, but we find out we are still 10 km away from the address we
were given. We get on a second minibus, this time one pretty crowded,
people keep getting in and out, our back packs occupy most of the bus
floor.

We are dropped off and we can see some type of house-boat on the
distance, we belive that must be our transport. We try to talk to
guy... We say our 3 Indonesian words one more time, he speaks non-
stop, we don't understand but we think he is saying no boat to Tayan,
we was obviously saying a lot more. We keep walking, see an office,
ask for a phone and voilà a nice lady speaks English! We called a
guide named Alex, he tells us to meet him at a department store and
he'll put us on a public boat.
We are sent back to the same place we started, this time the ride is
free.
We meet Alex and he puts us on speedboat, this how they call there
public boats. Now we are on the boat with about ten more people
looking at the dense jungle on the sides and the colorful semi ready-
to-sink boat houses. There are logs of wood logs drying on the side
of the river and the landscape starts turning orange us the sun goes
down. We spend about 3 ours or so and now it seems we've arrived. Got
to go we are in Tayan

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