The beginning of the third week on Gili Trawangan starts with Helen being unwell once again, its no fun considering Helen rarely gets ill back home. This meant sacrificing a couple of days diving just to get better!! This week like the last has lots of diving, studying and practical assessments. We are trying to complete as much as we can as we know there are 6 new DM students starting next week, one of the water tasks we had to do was treading in water for 15 ...

<-----this is what we get up to in our spare time!!! Here we are with our 2nd weekly entry from Gili Trawangan (basically, translated as Little Trawangan!) More facts about the Gili's - The Gili's is the second largest Biorock site in the world (artificial structures to help assist coral regrowth). The locals did a lot of dynamite fishing which damaged the reef, and they thought about growing sea grass but soon realised there was not a market for it and tha...

Now for the first of our weekly entries, Gili Trawangan is proving to be brilliant! Gili Trawangan is one of three islands off the coast of Lombok, Our island is just 3 km long and 2 km wide, which means that it only took us a couple of days to be fully orientated with the island. One thing we have noticed is that there are absolutely no dogs on the island, and as a result the island is over run by cats. Gili Trawangan is our home for the next 6 weeks as we sai...

Now, finally we are in our last country of South East Asia - Indonesia. There is so much planned...Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores...over a period of eight and a half weeks! Lots of diving and sailing - just how we like it! After a uneventful flight to Denpasar, Bali by the ever so reliable Air Asia (and no we are not being sarcastic!) No Frills it may be but, our flights have always pretty much been on time! The plan was to spend a couple of days at Legian, a...

The bus journey from Phnom Penh was uneventful, so will move on to our first proper day in Siem Reap. (Our first impressions were positive, we loved the place. Lots of cheap eats, trendy places and best of all lots of markets!) Our first day started at 5am by getting a tuktuk to Angkor Wat for sunrise (Angkor Wat is undoubtedly the heart and soul of Cambodia), As we waited in pitch black by the lake waiting for then sun to rise behind Angkor Wat we could not hel...