Kuta! The most tourist-y town in Indonesia (I expect) Me and Grace arrived on Thursday morning, checked into a prison-cell-esque room and booked a nice place with a pool for the next two nights when the others would be joining us. We spent the day shopping and walking along the market stalls. They all sell the same thing but some people are much easier to barter with than others. We booked some surfing lessons and I bought a new camera. Being in Indonesia, I tho...

Ubud is a small town in the middle of Bali. We met up with Elena, Holly and Sophie again on the way over there and didn't actually get to Ubud until the evening. We managed to find a fairly decent place to stay and all 5 of us were in the same room, sharing 2 double beds which we pushed together. The first night we just went out for dinner and a couple of drinks in a cool bar with live music. Our full day in Ubud began with a well deserved lie in. We got some br...

We did a lot of travelling in Indonesia. After flying into Bali we stayed in Kuta for a night, wandering around the market stalls and loving the cheap food. We had to get up early the next day to get our bus and boat to the Gili islands. However, we found that by going with the cheapest company possible, we really did get what we paid for. We had to spend a night on Lombok instead of getting to Gili Trawangen on the same day. The night wasn't too bad, we stayed i...

First impressions of Jakarta weren't great. We got there late, got lost walking around trying to find a cheap hostel and then ended up staying in a really scummy place. Possibly the worst of everywhere we've been- There wasn't even a shower. Literally just a toilet, which you had to flush yourself. Our day in Jakarta was a bit better, aside from getting pickpocketed and losing my camera and with it 3 weeks of pictures which I hadn't been able to upload yet. I'm ...