We're Outta Here!

Rice fields from the train
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Our second visit to Jakarta was, again, brief.  We just needed to get to the airport.  A motorised ojek took us to Gambir train station where we could catch a bus to the airport, but brfore boarding, we thought we'd check out a nearby monument.  Monas, or "Surkano's Last Erection" as it's affectionately known, is in the middle of a rather beautiful park (Medan Merdeka) in the middle of Jakarta.  We decided we'd see enough of Jakarta from the top of this, and indeed we did.  Nearby is Mesjid Istiqlal, the largest mosque in Southeast Asia, holding 250,000 people.  There is also a museum at the bottom of the tower that seemed to give a pretty good history of the 13,000-17,000 island strong archipelago, but we were short on time so jumped on the bus.

Sean trying to get some sleep
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At the airport we managed to buy tickets to Kuala Lumpur for Rp612,000 pp, cheaper than the much closer Singapore, from AirAsia.  This airline doesn't have allocated seating, so after the boarding call, there was a mad rush for the front of the queue.  In the end, we managed 3 seats to ourselves (who wants to sit next to white people?).

who wants to sit next to white people?