We arrived in Bogor rather sweatily about 2 hours later and tried to find the Botanical Gardens which ended up being quite alot further away than we thought! Mmmm we love humidity! It was worth it as the gardens were lovely (with its very own colony of bats) and crammed with school kids so obvously loads more 'Hello Mr's!' It was even nicer to know that alot of the flowers there we'd seen in the wild throughout SE Asia 
Beautiful botanical gardens!
! Flower spotter that I'm becoming! It had a great cafe right in the middle with stunning landscaped gardens - parents you would have loved it!!! Yet another whirlwind stop as we then headed to the bus station to get a bus to Bandung via the Punkat Pass whch according to the guide book had some great scenery!
We weren't disappointed!!! The road took us high up into the hills around Bogor with stunning views over the tea plantations and surrounding countryside! I think if we come back to Java we'd definitely try and stop off there for a few days - some of the hotels looked to have corking views! Unfortunately just as we reached the top, as was becoming the norm late afternoon, the heavens opened so much so that we felt like we were on the news when floods are advertised! There must have been a few inches of water covering the roads in the space of about 20 minutes!!! All very exciting - especially the way the bus drivers (especially the green bus!!) in Java tend to drive all with one windscreen wiper! Excellent! We arrived in Bandung early evening and had a nightmare trying to get transport into the city centre - in Java all the bus stations are miles out of town!! After being messed around by one bemo driver and dropped in the middle of nowhere - we finally found a nice man who told us what we needed to do and arrived at a guesthouse not too long later where I ended up helping the owner fill in his Australian tax rebate form
We actually ended up staying in Bandung for 2 nights - moving to a very nice hotel for the second night - one so we would have a phone in the room and two as we spent the rest of the time in Bandung using the toilet roll as a relay baton if you get my drift!!!! Lovely...such a bonding experience!! Paul managed to stay away from the room long enough to have a swim and scared all the Muslim women away who were embarassed to see his hairy chest!!!! Our sightseeing involved a walk around the block to see the not-so-impressive Governor's residence followed by a quick rush back to finish the race!!! Hee Hee! The whole of Bandung had quite a good atmosphere though as the Asia-Africa Summit was about to begin!!!
