The next, and final, destination of our epic adventure was Kuta, Lombok. Now it must be pointed out that we talking about Kuta on Lombok, not Kuta on Bali. Kuta on Bali is where all the Australian gap-year students go to behave extremely badly, and is very commercialised. Basically its the tourist center of Indonesia, and we had made a point of avoiding it. Kuta on Lombok, on the other hand, is only big on surfer's tourist maps, which means that it has all the ba...

The next leg of our Indonesian adventure has taken us back to Bali for a short stop over in the Sanur and then onto the island of Gili Air off the North Coast of Lombok island. Our small island tour continues after visiting Seraya, small island as in smaller than all the main islands across Indonesia. Apparently the country is made up of more the 17000 individual islands so we are only seeing a very minute sample. To get to Gili Air there are boat choices - slo...

Stop over en route to Gili

As our twin prop plane banked over the runway we got a full view of our destination. Damon turned to me and said 'this is what we came to Indonesia to see' and, though I hate to admit it, he was absolutely correct. If Damon and I were superheros, he would be known Super Indecisive Man and I would be Captain Non-committal. We really are that bad. Anyway it had taken hours and a sleepless night to decide to go to Labuan Bajo on Flores island. The main tourist...

Our time in Yogya had to come to end at some point. Besides I had tested most of the local cuisine apart from the ever elusive crab :). Post the Indonesian reggae party our rather (read very) broken and tired team made it to Yogya airport in time to board the Lion air flight to Denpasar, Bali. I am not sure if the flight actually happened but I do recall boaring a plane, seeing Mt Bromo and the surrounding Caldera from the air and then waking up once we had lande...