31st May 2005 - JAKARTA Due to our own stupidity our day is now devoted to visiting the Indonesian Immigration Office. All we need to do is get an extention on our visa's according to Priscilla, this should be a fairly simple procedure. Afterall, this is a 3rd worl country (Priscilla's words not ours) and anything is possible..........for a price! Heru, who works at Tamara's was instructed by Priscilla to escort us to the office. We thought he would take us ...

Why Fly to Bali when we can fly to Jakarta, jump on a bus and a boat or two and save ourselfs 50 Quid, was our reasoning as we clicked the confirm button on the 'Value Air Indonesia' website. It wasn't until the next day we decided to find out exactly where Jakarta was - we we're plesently surprised (and a little lucky) to find it was acually ON ROUTE! A short flight gave us just enough time to catch 60 winks, grab a bite to eat and have an interseting conve...

Hello Singapore: Which in turn means Bye Malaysia - which Means Boarder cross! Travveling on Coach should be easy we though before the coach driver stopped in the middle lane of the motor way and insisted we get off (well we think thats what he was saying) Off we got and had to grab our bags from the Coach before negotiating the traffic. Neadless to say we made it and Singapore was a welcome break. Expensive YES - but organised and Very Very Clea...

We arrived 4am KL. Tired and weiry after our longest travelling day so far - 21 Hours consisting of a Boat, 2 mini vans, a VIP coach and a taxi. Needing a good - what was rest of the - nights sleep we checked in early to the Bingtang Guest house. Kindly greated shown to our nice, if not a little prison like room and saw the bed which was screaming our names... "Lights off Good Night" .... Should have been more ... "Lights off and now lets take advantage of...

Sigs View on Thailand: Hello all - well 3 weeks into our 8 month adventure and so far so good! Its really been such a fantastic time already, maybe that'll change once we exit holiday mode and have to start killing for our food. We seen so much so far but i though i'd concentrate on some of the more important things: Transport, beer, and the ladyboys! Firstly Transport: this aside from two dogs getting stuck together after having doggie sex ...