Being very tired and being asked for £7/each to leave a country wasn't appreciated! I'd already paid £16 to get in, why not put the price up?! Tut tut Indonesia! We'd pre booked a hostel for once and got there pretty quickly and easily. I love cities with efficient transport. It was like using an Oyster card in London. We got a 3 day pass for unlimited travel on the tube and on buses for £4/each per day. Not bad! We dumped our stuff in our smelly dorm room, c...

Phew, it seems like we haven't had chance to stop and breathe the past week or so and it's not been much better the last few days. We're exhausted! After the last time I blogged we didn't get a lie in as someone was shouting 'nasi nasi nasi' (rice) from around 6.30am onwards. We didn't fancy getting up for the 6.15am train to Probolinggo so we went for the 12.30 one. If I'd have known we wouldn't sleep in I would have gotten up! It was only supposed to take 5 ho...

Hello! We have survived the past 3 days of travelling! We took an 8 hour ferry from Flores to Sumbawa, then a 2 hour bus to the port for buses, then a 12 hour absolutely awful overnight bus to the other side of Sumbawa, then a 2 hour ferry to Lombok, then a 3 hour bus across Lombok, then a 5 hour ferry to Bali, then a 2 hour bus to Denpasar where we finally slept for a good 11 hours. Today we headed an hour to Tanah Lot-a famous temple just off a black volcanic...

Our trip to Komodo National Park The boat: I didn't think the boat was not too small when we first saw it. It had a small section outside at the helm although a canoe took up a fair bit of room. There was a bit of a fight for the sun here at times! Under cover was a large plain deck. Just one bench that would hold 3-4 people in front of the captain's quarters. So there was just the wooden floor to sit on or a wooden bench. Comfy! Behind the captain's quarters w...

Lowdown: * Our cruise was postponed until Monday due to rough seas * We're stuck on this beautiful island-poor us! * After we went snorkelling and I complained about massive waves, no snorkelling trips have been run for 3 days following that! We were the Owen Hargreaves of the sea! * Boats haven't been running to our island because of the waves for the past couple of days * We head back to Lombok tomorrow to check on the status of our trip. If it doesn't loo...