Humans in the forest, Indonesian Borneo Orang-utan literally means 'humans in the forest' and our trip to Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) was in search of these elusive creatures. We started in Palangkaraya and had hired a boat to take us up river, stopping off at traditional Dayak villages and looking out for wildlife, especially the orang-utan. After an overnight stop in Palangkaraya we were picked up in the morning to board our boat, Edwina asked the driver ...

Back to Indonesia - Bali and Jawa Indonesia has been one of the favourite countries of the kids so far and we were all looking forward to going back, being at Melbourne airport I was thinking that it would be nice to once more leave westernised culture and head into the second part of our trip away. First up was 4 nights in the Conrad again booked with points to ease us back into travelling mode, lazing around the pool and eating out of the executive lounge was...

Back to the Gilis and onto Ubud, Indonesia The speed boat back across to Gili Air had us all excited looking forward to an air conditioned room after 6 days of sweltering heat would be pure luxury and not a bowl of boiled rice insight! The best night sleep was had by all only being woken to the noise of a commercial pump and the putrid smell of a septic tank being emptied……..not to put a damper on our day though! Today's mission was to try and swim with tu...

On the search for Komodos, Indonesia Arriving at the Kencana Booking office we were greeted with utter chaos, it seemed we weren't the only ones rushed into this trip and a few people booking via agents which had promised the earth to get their custom, we had booked direct as we had 6 months earlier read a travel story in a magazine about the Kencana Tour which inspired us to book with the same company. Eventually it all got sorted and we boarded the bus for the...

Hitting the beach in Gili Air, Indonesia When travelling for 1 year it's inevitable that plans never quite go to plan, we should of know that trouble always comes in 3s and after losing our bags in Kathmandu we should of known something else was going to happen. When we were in Legoland, Mount Rinjani on Lombok had started to spew ash into the air closing both Bali and Lombok airport (Lombok was our next stop). By the time we had left Annie's in Singapore to dri...