Mount Merapi

Mount Merapi is an active volcano near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. This photo was taken from the balcony of a hotel downtown, during the TALE 2019 conference. In 2006 I arranged for the Australian Computer Society to fund Indonesia students to work on adapting the Sahana open source disaster management software if needed for an expected eruption of Merapi. Fortunately this did not happen.

Flight over the Australian Desert

On the long flight back from Jakarta to Australia after TALE 2019, I noticed an aircraft below, dwarfed by the vast desert.

On the Yogyakarta to Jakarta Train

In the dining car

Locomotive

Greetings from the Yogyakarta to Jakarta Train. I was in Yogyakarta for the IEEE TALE 2019 engineering education conference. The train, as recommended by Seat 61 is  very comfortable.

Small Hut Over Water on the Jararta Line

We left on time, and the coffee and rice lunch was okay.There power to  each seat and the mobile data service works.

Bright lights of Yogyakarta

Bright lights of Yogyakarta

I took this photo from a pedestrian overpass in Yogyakarta, last night. It was late and so the street was now as busy as during the day. I am here for the IEEE TALE 2019 engineering education conference. I arrived during a downpour, and foolishly decided to catch the local bus from the airport, rather than take a taxi, or wait for the rain to stop. Just finished drying out. 

On the bus from Yogyakarta Airport