The following "facts" are mostly picked up from a free tourist pamphlet we picked up at a travel agency. Reader discretion is advised… Before coming here we had read somewhere that Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country. Hence our surprise was great as we stumbled into Bali's Kuta and found all of the stores to have little offerings on the street in front of them. There seemed to be a lot of shrines too, and a distinct lack of minarets calling out t...

As we were planning our great RTW trip we figured that we would at some point like to do some water sports. The options here were basically diving and surfing and for no particular reason we decided on surfing. Since we'd already gotten all of our flights through Kilroy, we decided to look into the surfing courses they were offering. One caught our eye, the 6 Day Island Hopper course with Mojosurf in Bali, Indonesia. The price wasn't too bad and the itinerary see...

We've been in Indonesia a full week now without making an entry about our time here. The reason for that is that we were on a preplanned surfing course which lasted six days. I'll be making another entry about that trip but since this blog is also our travel journal (and I dislike it lacking stuff), I'm writing down this bit about our arrival in Indonesia. We left Bangkok on March 14th, by Malesian Airlines, which has had some bad reputation lately. One plane ...

Olemme olleet jo yli kaksi ja puoli kuukautta matkalla, ja siitä on kauan, kun viimeksi kirjoittelimme kokemuksistamme suomeksi. Tuolloin olimme juuri saapuneet Nepalissa Pokharaan. Aika on mennyt todella nopeasti, mutta toisaalta näihin päiviin on mahtunut mielettömän paljon uusia ja hienoja elämyksiä. Tässä on kertauksena tärkeimmät tapahtumat Nepalista ja Intiasta, Thaimaa, Kambodzha ja Indonesia seuraavat myöhemmin. J Nepal Pokharassa vietim...