Mount Batur is a weird, weird place and I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It is supposed to be a top attraction in Bali due to the fact that you can climb a live volcano to watch the sunrise. Our trip to Mount Batur was typical Balinese i.e. it took hours to get there and we stopped at many places. We stopped at a place called Pina Colada, which was a farm, arts centre, dance studio and gift shop all rolled into one! We were given tea, coffee and fried ban...

The journey to Ubud should only have taken us 1 hour but we hired a little man to take us on an exploratory tour of Bali! Our first stop was Batun where we watched a Barong Dance, which was quite entertaining. Then he took us on a shopping marathon for silver, paintings and woodwork. Aidan was tempted by a huge monkey wood carving then he learnt it cost £2000. Ubud has loads of ultra cool restaurants, which were completely empty! We had some excellent Ital...

We arrived in Bali at the end of the wet season but that didn't stop it from raining every day for the first 8 days. We didn't see the sun at all until our 10th day in Bali. Our first hotel in Bali was incredible. It had really big rooms, king size bed, nice pool, good food, and cheap beer. There were no tourists in Sanur. The only tourists that we did see were old people anyway. They were very nice in our hotel. On the first day we were an hour and a half la...

In our hostel room at Singapore we had a tv and a dvd player with a library of 1 movie: 'The Cave'. It's a film about some geologists who get stuck underground with some bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters. There is some really good acting and exciting plot twists. I wont spoil the ending for you in case you want to see it! Katie thought she had died and gone to shopping heaven in Singapore. Orchard road has about 20 shopping centres and I think we went to all o...

Tioman Islands were voted as one of the Top 10 most beautiful islands in the world. So we were incredibly excited to get the opportunity to spend some time here and even splashed out on a seaview chalet. It certainly lived up to our exceptions and our chalet was 1 metre from the beach with the most amazing views, I loved it. Our chalet also came with a selection of local cats. Aidan and I are not particularly cat people (we love our dogs!) so weren't too impress...