Well what a weird end to a day, when we arrived finally in Ijen, I asked the hostel manager when's best to do the volcano tours and how much it'll be... He said well there's actually one person going tonight.. I was under the impression you go in the morning.. Not 12 at night..? Well I Managed to convince Jord... Why not let's so it now. Bearing in mind it's 11pm he goes off and picks up two bikes for us to rent whilst I asked his sweet mother to cook us some fri...

We almost got stranded in Cemoro Lawang, the small town near Bromo. After doing the sunrise walk and checked out we went to catch a shuttle bus back to Probolinggo to catch a train to Ijen the next mountain range. Well when we got there there was 4 of us and the minivan driver said we'll leave when there's 10.. Fair enough we'll wait.. Well after an hour and no one showing up we asked around and managed to get one of the locals with an old 4x4 to dive us down to ...

The bus journey from Probolinggo to Bromo reminded of a holiday I had I. Turkey when we went up the cliff side towards the paragliding spot. The roads were barely big enough for 2 cars to fit, with what felt like vertical hills and cliff drops on the edge of the road.. Not a fan. Because we arrived in the afternoon we decided to walk to Bromo crater rather than doing it after the viewpoint the next day, which I'm glad cause I was knackered after. At the base of t...

So we left Puerto Princessa at 11am on the 8th, and 3 flights later we arrived in Malang at 8am on the 9th.. And the only sleep I managed to get was apparently during take off on the 2nd flight.. Where I just remember being woken up by the flight attendant trying to wheel her trolley over my leg.. Then realising we had already been in the air about 15 minutes.. The next sleep I got was on the floor at Jakarta airport for an hour waiting to be let into the airport...