Surabaya, Indonesia

Surabaya is Indonesia’s second largest city – and it is huge! In some ways it’s very much like other large cities – lots of traffic, large roads, and huge shopping malls. The traffic is so bad that there are times that people will hire a cab – to go across the street! There’s also a huge contrast between the poor and the rich – and it really doesn’t seem to take much to be counted on the rich side. Every place we visited had guards at the parking entrance as well as at the doors – even the school gave us visitor badges at the gated entrance. The picture is the entrance area to the Somerset Hotel. The hotel entrance is fabulously rich! Do wish there had been more time to explore more of the area!