Hello again - hope everyone is good!!! Right, we awoke in our house-like hostel in Ahmed early ready for a 12 hour trip to the Gili Islands, where we needed to head through Padang Bai, on a boat to Sengigi and finally to Gili Trawangan! However when we told the taxi driver where our final destination was he assured us his 'good friend' had a boat that could take us for only 2 and a half hours straight there, and it would be half the price!! As I have become qu...

Hello again This is just a quick one as we only stayed in Ahmed for one night. We left Lovina knowing that we didn't have time to visit Komodo Island, or trek up a volcano (next time!) and finally got to the Gili Islands (which we're well excited about!) but there were a few stops on the way which were worth a visit, the first of which was Tulamben! This town was pretty rubbish to be fair, there was literally nothing there but in the bible that is Lonely Plan...

Alright then, from Kuta we went straight up to the northern coast to a tiny quiet little place called Lovina. Completely the opposite of Kuta really, we are quite worried that we're getting old!!! We arrived and, as in the classic SE Asian way, our bus drivers 'good friend' would give us good price at his hotel, so we had no choice but to look! As it turned out he would as long as we booked some trips!! So we booked a 'dolphin watching' tour and a diving/snorke...

Now then everyone - sorry it's been a while!!! Gunna get right up to date AND were not gunna waffle like we have on the last couple of blogs!!! Debs was horrified about the last blog - plus as were in Oz it will cost a fortune if were here for another 6 hour session! Right we left Bukit Lawang after a quality time and headed back to Medan where we played some pool and went bowling, and then caught a flight to Bali the next day!! The flight took pretty much the...

Hello there everybody, We actually made it to INDONESIA!!!!!!! We always wanted to come here (Debs' especially) but never knew the details, but whilst I was frolicking with Nemo debs was studying maps and charts and now were here!! So, we got the tube and arrived at KL airport at about 4pm, where we attempted to check in but got redirected to the International terminal …. glad we were organized and got there early as it was a good half an hour ta...