After our sea voyage from Flores to Lombok (read about it in our post from Labuan Bajo) we arrived by bus to Senggigi on the western shore of the island. As usual, we had made reservations, this time in a place called Indah Homestay that had its cheapest rooms going for 150'000 IDR per night. The owner (a Dutch woman) had contacted us by email, giving us directions which were of great help since the place could only be found by walking a narrow corridor, followed...

Yes, it's a string with knots. A fancy one has a hook in one end, but otherwise that's it. I used this for the first time with my hammock, Ticket to the Moon actually sells these as sets and I was foolish enough to buy one. It was a rope. With knots on it. Nothing more… What this does is that it gives an easy way to attach things to other things and then to adjust the tightness of one of the things (still following me?). Loop it around a tree and another one...

(Feel free to skip to the part about the cruise, if that's what you're interested in, since this is going to be a long one…) Flores? Where's that? We were surprised how unknown this Indonesian Island is. Talking to a bunch of people on Mojosurf's surfing course, some of who work in Indonesia, you would think it's a small dot in the ocean at the other end of the country consisting of 17'000 similar islands. It's not. Going east from Bali you first come to ...

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...