Location, location

It turns out it's harder to take a good picture of my view than I realised, but here's my best attempt:

Bandung is essentially in a valley, surrounded by mountains. In fact, everywhere you look there are more mountains! I am living just on the edge of what is officially called Bandung, in an area called Dago. It's a fair bit higher up than the main part of Bandung. This next picture is taken from the library, which has a lovely view. It's deceptive - this makes it look like it's so far away from everything! The main part of Bandung is behind the hill. You can just see it at the right.

Because Bandung is 768 metres above sea level (thanks Wikipedia!) I'm finding the weather is much nicer than other parts of Indonesia. It's still humid, but nowhere near as hot. In fact, the nights have a quite enjoyable chill to them. At the moment it is rainy season, which means it has rained every single day I have been here. Every day. Now that's consistency! I have tried to ask various people how long the rainy season will last, but I have got such wildly differing answers that I'm just going to wait and see for myself!