Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
Reflection and trust. Thankfully trusting our instinct worked; the lovely truck driver that we waved down back in Mukomuko who didn't speak one work of english had safely delivered Daisy directly to our hotel in the early hours of the morning :-) We left the remaining Rp 3 million with concierge to pay and 'decided to' trust all would be fine... It was perfect. We awoke to find her neatly parked up at the Mandarin Oriental with only a disconnected battery and gears that only change
in ascending order only (nothing much new there), so we met the TV crew for our final filming: An urban jungle drive through Jakarta to drop daisy off at the ASEAN HQ.
(We feel it's important to note that day 1 of filming was straight after a 22hr truck ride, and day 2 of filming was after 2 days no sleep and a lethal mix of champagne and sambucas - not looking our best perhaps).
After some highly skilled electrical work reconnecting the battery we got her going - only to run out of fuel 200m down the road. EMBARRASSING! (not our best non-blonde moment). Push starting Daisy and possibly distracted by the film crew, Jojo lost her footing... Hanging on for dear life with her bum scraping along the floor (and crossing her fingers that they weren't going to air it on TV), Al eventually slowed enough to get Jo safely in.
An emotional goodbye to Daisy and a race against time to catch our flight from Jakarta.... Aahhhhh we don't want to say goodbye...!
Now considering where our next adventure will take us...
Some have said 'thank Tuk it's all over' we say 'It's only Tuk begun'
Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
Last few hours in Indonesia. There have been highs, and there have been lows. Many hours spent with mechanics, had our bones shaken from our bodies on the Sumatran roads, eaten some funky looking things and met some fantastic people along the way. One thing is for sure, it's been one hell of adventure! Out x@
Thank Tuk It's Over
**Thank Tuk It's Over**
Hit Jakarta today, crossed the finish line 6 hours late and missed all the fun. Did have fun walking away from our tuk tuk for the last time though. It's been an awesome trip if not rather difficult at times too. Mainly thanks to the three wheeled tin can we have had to rely on. It's drive and reliability seems to be governed by a formula that only returns entirely random and often inconvienent outcomes.
Below I'm going to cover a few recent events leading to todays climax as I've not put much online in the last few days due to a lack of internet, time, battery power and a barricade of fatigue. Enjoy.
After our 600k night stink to Bengkulu we stuck around a while waiting for Team Moist to catch up. While we waiting we searched for accomadation. Something nice and breazy on the beach possible? Turns out the beach is mainly used to store corpses and faeces so we headed off into the city centre and found a place half built. The half that was built was awesome. Once our Moist friends had caulght up we headed out with the intention to cruise down south along the costal road and maybe even hit a few waves. First stop was the guitar shop, where we purchased pellet guns and a skateboard. Essential jungle costal survival equipment I can assure you...
 
 After we we all geared up we got some directions from a local, in a language we didn't understand. The outcome was rather difficult and incredibly sandy ...
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 After our costal plan failed we headed back inland  and up the mountain into the jungle. Shortly before finding the correct road our lights failed, leaving us fair game for trucks. We headed back to the city to make some repairs and ended up losing an entire night. With 1400Km to go with less than a day and a half to do it in, we had to bite the bullet and jump on a truck. The truck thundered us down to the edge of Sumatra where we dismounted the truck to find our battery had died. So had our clutch. After some mocking from locals, we pushed our tuk tuk up onto the ferry and crossed over to Java where we split from Team Moist and went hunting for a new battery before powering along the pot holed pseudo-road towards the finish line some 100Km away. (Yes there is a large well maintained toll road that it apppears all the other teams took however dispite our best diplomatic efforts, we failed to gain access. Something about not having enough wheels or big enough bribe mutter mutter)
Shame to ride so much of the trip on a truck but we did get some awesome images from the ride....
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Well that's it. Sat in the hotel now deleting emails I don't want to reply to. Couple of days in Jakarta before returning to face the music.
It's been awesome. The word on the street is that about 15/24 tuk tuks made it here.
Thanks to all the other teams that made it much more than just a race through the jungle on a heap of junk, keep in touch bishes.
Peace.
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Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
In some sort of discotheque in Jakarta. Apparently it's all the rage with the kids. Andy is concerned he hasn't put any sun cream on, despite the fact it's at least 7 hrs until the sun rises again!
Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
Made it to the finish line this morning. Pretty stress free journey from the ferry down to Jakarta to be greeted with some well earned bintangs. The combined smell of the 4 of us has become somewhat difficult to bare. Time for a much needed shower!
Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
finished !!! Final drive on the south Sumatra coast, 20 hours on a truck. Did the final crazy drive through Jakarta at 5am, no brakes no clutch so screw the red lights was like mario kart through town having a Bintang in the sun at the ASEAN headquarters boom!!
Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia
long needed shower awaits. Closing ceremony coming up! The "adventure" isn't yet over...but coming to a close on Sat afternoon.
