Another 6 hours in a bemo, pausing only for lunch, we continued our eastward path across Java, skirting the northern coast before turning south and back into Java's interior. The rains began and quickly turned from heavy to torrential, our little minibus labouring up what was once a road, but with all the pot holes and landslides now resembled nothing more than a dirt track under a foot or two of water. A little worried the van might roll on a couple of occasions...

We thought the driving in South America is bad, but the Indonesians are even worse! We headed off in a small bemo from Yogya with a couple from Belgium on our way to Mount Bromo. The craziest 7 hours of driving ever. It was best not to look. We changed bemo's in Probolinggo where we found out that our plans to go to Bali the next day would have to be changed as Bali was shut! The following day was Nyepi in Bali. The night before, spirits are scared away with drum...