{"id":214,"date":"2013-07-24T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2013-07-24T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:03:47","slug":"down-and-out-in-lubuklinggau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Down and Out in Lubuklinggau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lubuklinggau is a reasonably large town. The main street is lined with motorcycle repair shops, small cafes, hairdressers, an array of small business, hawker stalls &#8230; and banks. Plenty of banks. Not surprising really, afterall it is the northern railhead of the southern Sumateran line.<\/p>\n<p>Change money? Not in Lubuklinggau . We arrived here thinking that we would convert a few of our AUD into Rupiah, pay for our hotel, buy some tucker, and get back on the horse and ride north.<\/p>\n<p>Not in Lubuklinggau , and we finally figured that out after 5 banks. Money transfer? Need someone here to transfer the money too. Hmmm&#8230; maybe an option, but can take 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>Cash advance on CC? Sorry&#8230; no do in Lubuklinggau . <\/p>\n<p>Western Union?&#8230; not in Lubuklinggau .<\/p>\n<p>When it seems that we have only two options left&#8230; hitch out of town, or stand on a street corner, the bank manager at bank number 6 takes pity on destitute Aussies and converts 200 smackers for us in a transaction that has to be conducted in the basement behind the aircon unit&#8230; out of view of the security cameras. Why would he want AUD ? Maybe he is planning a cruise to Christmas Island?<\/p>\n<p>Cashed up we head for the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubuklinggau is a reasonably large town. The main street is lined with motorcycle repair shops, small cafes, hairdressers, an array of small business, hawker stalls &#8230; and banks. Plenty of banks. Not surprising really, afterall it is the northern railhead of the southern Sumateran line. Change money? Not in Lubuklinggau . We arrived here thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaving-melbourne-the-road-to-abu-dhabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.com.sg\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}