So... This place was not easy to get to by any stretch of the imagine! but it was so worth it! After 4 hours travelling to Medan we got on aother bus for 4 hours to get here. We arrived at night after all day travelling (We really will cry if we see another bus!) and fell into the first hotel we found. The next day we got up early and hiked up the river for 30 minutes to a canoe that took us over the river and up to the....wait for it.....Orangutan Feeding Centr...

Hi Everyone, We decided that as the internet was so cheap here we would do the blog and photos as we have so many nice pictures and we didnt want to risk losing them all. We will write about Lake Maninjau and Lake Toba together, as we visited them side by side and because its easier! They are to different places and 23 hours on a bus apart! We decided to do a day trip from Bukittinggi to Lake Maninjau which is 45 minutes down the road because if we didnt book s...

Last blog for a bit... so after a helish trip to Sumatera and a few problems once arrive here, we are now settled and very happy. We arrived yesterday and found a very nice cheap B&B, which IS serving breakfast! it has hot water and a tv too!!!! so we can watch indonesian soap operas to our hearts content. Today after having our first lie in for a week, walked up the panarama park to see the Japanese caves built by indonesian POWs in WW2. We had to walk down...

...continued from Bali - Ubud. So we arrived in Probolingo in Java after 9 hours on the bus. 9 hours of bliss though as we had the seats by the toilet at the back, which reclined into beds practically, and we slept like babies! Now there's a first! Awaiting us to no surprise were people to take us to a nearby travel agent and sell us stuff. We arrived in time to go straight up the mountain but we needed to get to the hotel that we had booked first to drop off ou...

Hi guys, Again sorry for the wait but travelling through Indonesia in Ramadan is quite tricky! This blog will be about our second bit of Bali when we went to Ubud a town just north to where we were before. Its quieter and more beautiful and has a monkey sanctuary where you can play with the wild monkeys all day long!! will post the photos up soon but i'm scared to incase we lose them all again and the camera seems to be playing up again so i'm going to wait for...