This entry is a little bit back in time. We have travelled through the outback and up in to rainforests so we have had limited access to the internet and when we have it has been pretty expensive. Anyway, our flight over from Bali a few weeks ago was horrible - we hit major turbulence and food was thrown all around the plane as a result. Because of this, we decided not to fly to Cairns from Darwin and instead travel through the outback! We arrived in Darwin ...

Today was our last day in South East Asia - tonight we move to Australia! We have had a wonderful two weeks in Bali, starting with a week in Ubud from where we last wrote. Saturday 22nd was spent travelling in a small van visiting all sorts of places in central Bali along with our driver/guide who had excellent English and made the day very interesting. First stop was a traditional Balinese house complete with a huge carved stone gateway and a number of small m...

First things first. We are not in Bali for the party scene as we can do that anywhere in the world. We are here for the culture and the landscape which is amazing. We left Singapore last Sunday and headed for Jakarta, Indonesia for the final leg of our South East Asian adventure. After being informed about the problems and pollution of Jakarta we arrived feeling quite uneasy, however, after obtaining our visa in 5 minutes and collecting our baggage almost imm...

First things first. We are not in Bali for the party scene as we can do that anywhere in the world. We are here for the culture and the landscape which is amazing. We left Singapore last Sunday and headed for Jakarta, Indonesia for the final leg of our South East Asian adventure. After being informed about the problems and pollution of Jakarta we arrived feeling quite uneasy, however, after obtaining our visa in 5 minutes and collecting our baggage almost imm...

Having decided to try to update our blog weekly.... we have managed to go 2 weeks since our last entry, so we have a lot to tell you!! We moved from Penang to Taiping via all sorts of public transport... just to save ourselves a bit of money, and arrived in what turned out to be quite a dismal little town in the pouring rain (which seems to have followed us every day since!). That put an end to our plans of going to the night safari at the zoo! Instead we did so...