Food poisoning mostly gone, we got up again at 4:30 a.m. and
this time we made our way towards Krakatau. Krakatau holds accountability for
one of the deadliest, most impactful eruptions of all time. It also is still
active and when you research it on Trip Advisor, the number one article is
entitled something to the effect of “I’ve never been so scared in my whole
life.” We wanted to go! It’s also about a 3 hour drive from Jakarta. The tour
group fees listed online all are in the $200 USD range. That’s a bit steep for
us, so we figured we’d grab our stuff, drive out towards Krakatau and see if we
can apply the same tricks we learned in Flores and just hire a boat for
ourselves.
This tactic unfortunately did not work! The best price we
could figure still was something like $120 AUD per person for the boat. We’d then have to pay
the various park fees, guide fees, etc. on top of that. That just didn’t make
sense. In another tragic turn of events, we decided to just eat breakfast and
drive back.
To make it up to Pallavi’s cousin, we took him out to a nice
restaurant. We learned two things. 1) Jakartans love to go out to eat.
Pallavi’s cousin said that most people go out for lunch and any night of the
week you usually need a booking to go to any restaurant. 2) Nice restaurants
cost about the same as they would if you went out in Australia.
Such a shame about the volcano, but we’ll just have to do it
again sometime.
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