I wasn't sure what to expect from Taman Negara, except more jungle, and I was pretty used to that... I started to worry when I was (eventually) picked up in a minibus that had two couples - French and something else, both middle aged and no young-ish looking single people at all. Luckily when we transferred to the big coach I met Matt and Jamie, both Brummie, travelling separately so I had friends to talk to. The bus took us as far as Kuala Tembeling where we tra...

The coach company I'd booked with to get to KL had VIP coaches, but I didn't hold out much hope for anything more than a stinky old banger with no air con and a broken seat. Luckily (given my sleep deprivation) I was wrong, and it was one of the ones with 3 rather than 4 seats across, full air con and proper reclining seats. Not only that but it had TV screens in the back of the chair in front like on a plane - Bliss. I realised on the bus, I knew even less about...

Now the trip was to start again after my break in Sydney. I was still being eased in gently though as I was going to stay with one of Ruth's friends from HK (Blondie) in Singapore. I used the 8 hour flight to catch up on some of the films I'd missed in the cinema, even though this did mean the air crew shutting down all the passengers screens for half an hour so they could fix mine! Luckily I don't think the other passengers realised it was my fault! I arrive...

In the time space from waking up at 4.30am in Lae and getting to Port Moresby, my travel plans had drastically changed, since being an emotional wreck, tired and miserable and having had a text from Pete saying, "hey, why don't you come down to Sydney for Easter?! i decided that is what i needed to do! It was at the point of texting Ruth to ask with some help with this that I realised I'd left the phone in the hotel room - as I already described in the last...

The original plan (A) had been to trek in the last week up the Black Cat track from Salamaua to Wau. We had already given up this idea for many reasons and changed to plan B which was to trek it the slightly easier route from Wau down to Salamaua. I'd been pretty disappointed already by this as my seven weeks in the jungle appear to have turned me into a masochist and I wanted to do the harder route, but a week before we left Kamiatum Adam dropped another bombs...