Travelogue around Asia Pacific Part II

Surabaya - For dinner we went to one of Surabaya most popular seafood restaurant - Layar Seafood Restaurant.   It was a big restaurant and the place was crowded but we managed to find a table. the welcome sign Tanks of live fishes We ordered their famous salted egg jumbo crab but it turns out to be our local kind of larger crabs. Salted egg jumbo crabs sauces and condiments Vegetables steam fresh grouper stir fried Broccoli I wanted another dish of vegetables because the first dish of vegetables tasted really good.   The Broccoli was also very delicious.  On the whole it was a good meal and I will come back again to this restaurant if I have another trip to Surabaya.

Surabaya - We made arrangements for a pick up at our Hotel @ 11pm to go to Mount Bromo for a spectacular sunrise.   I had been disappointed previously in Taiwan and Jeju island because of the cloudy skies and hope this journey to Mount Bromo would be worth the time.   It takes 4 hours broken up into 3 hrs from Surabaya to the meeting point; and another 1 hour by Jeep to reach near the sunset viewing area.    It was very cold (around 5 degrees) and the rental of the jacket cost Rp 25,000 each (about S$ 2.6).  To use the toilets you have to pay - some charges Rp 3,000 and others Rp 5,000 but its clean. Mount Bromo is a part of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park that covers a massive area of 800 square kilometres (about the size of Singapore). We were the first to arrive at the summit sunrise viewing area and there was no one around; so we decided to wait at a food stall and had tea, coffee and instant noodles. Around 4:15am, the whole summit was packe...