followthewiatrAbout
followthewiatr is me. I test the routes, prices and times on the ground — I don't copy them off the web. The photos inside are mine.
I'm from Nysa and based in Kraków. I first flew to Indonesia in 2018 — to Bali, on my honeymoon with Michał. I reached Java a year later, in 2019, and that's the one that pulled me in for good.
Most travel content is pretty and useless. Nice sunset, no address. I do the opposite: train times, ticket prices, the name of the warung — tested on the ground. Because planning a first trip to Java today means 20 tabs of blogs from 2019 whose prices are 40% out of date.
I verify prices in the field, not in someone else's post. Jomblang is 500,000 IDR, one session a day, an 80-person cap, cash on site — so that's how I write it. I also say when something's overpriced: the hotel "sunrise tour" at 500,000 IDR does the same as a Grab (80–120k) plus the ticket (350k). Michał and I travel together, but I'm the one who plans the trips and does the research. Indonesia first — deep, not wide.
Bali is the way in, not the whole island. Java, Flores, Sulawesi are the real territory — and almost nobody covers them in English with actual numbers. Nasi goreng in Seminyak, Bali: 45,000 IDR. The same in Yogyakarta: 12–15,000. You see that gap everywhere. That's the gap I'm filling.
The whole Yogyakarta route, train times, total cost in IDR + USD — about $185 on the ground. Tested on the ground.