Kalimantan Barat a.k.a KalBar is one of the four provinces of Indonesia located in Borneo island. It has the population of more than 6 million with Christian community as majority.

Our destination is the capital city name Pontianak. We took a bis (bus) from Kuching crossing Indonesia border via Tebudu checkpoint. It was a long 10 hours journey!

Churches are commonly seen along the way.

This scene showing a passenger sitting on the roof of the bus together with the baggage, I’m not sure if it’s common to the native but definitely not commonly seen to me.

Long distance local bus.

The bus stop right in front to a monopolized restaurant in the middle of no way and the driver turned off the air-con forcing everyone out for lunch. What choice do we have?

Nope, we have none! And I’m served with the worst Coffee ever tested in my life!

Unfortunately, an accident occur which putting the traffics on halt. The whole village rushed to the road to satisfy their curiosities. It’s like a carnival…

Kinda serious accident, the driver broke his leg but fortunately survive the incident.

Here come the ambulance.

And his guy who is standing in front of the church watching the incident is just “released” from Zoo Negara.

With some delay, we reached Sungai Punyu town at around 5PM.

Local gas station, petrol is call bansin in Indonesia and diesel is call solar.

Pertamina is the biggest energy supplier in Indonesia but it’s scandalizing by corruptions.

We reached Potianak city in the evening, I took some snapshots while crossing the longest river of indonesia name Kapuas.

Ferry service is available if you want to avoid traffics congestion in rush hours.

Pontianak city.

This is the most common transportation for the city folk.

Nasi Kuning (yellow rice) is the most popular local delight, you will not want to miss out this!

Coming up next, i will have some articles on fishes and plants like Betta, Paros, nepenthes and etc… So stay tune!

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