KALININGRAD COTTAGE

The cleanliness is pretty good, and the new house with the small lawn is quite nice. It's within walking distance of Sewu. There's a pretty good restaurant about 100 meters toward Sewu (p2). The chicken drumstick rice was surprisingly free-range chicken drumsticks, the bones hard and obvious that the chicken was free-range. We ate there three days in a row. (Of course, that's because there's nothing good nearby.) A little way out of Sewu toward the hotel, there's a place selling Indonesian grilled chicken skewers. They're delicious, 10k for five. But it's a bit noisy 😫😫😫 Every morning they have a prayer service at 4:00, then at 6:00, and then, depending on their mood, they'll keep the surround sound going until 11:00. ... . It's really like singing folk songs, echoing in the valley, one after another. The breakfast wasn't great; there wasn't much. The shrimp crackers were a bit like those at Shang Hao Jia. On clear days, you can see Semeru. It's hard to get a taxi nearby. Grab isn't available, and Traveloka is a Malang taxi, so the fare is a bit expensive.