Just relaxing on Magnetic Island after a week in Cairns completing my scuba diving course. Yep, it was back to school for 2 days, and then we had 3 days living aboard a boat on the reef. It was pretty awesome. Saw 2 sharks, giant clams, neon coloured parrot fish, clown-fish city (where Nemo lives), sea cucumbers, and loads of different types of coral and fish. We also did a night dive which was cool! And when we weren't diving, or preparing our equipment for divi...

Just relaxing on Magnetic Island after a week in Cairns completing my scuba diving course. Yep, it was back to school for 2 days, and then we had 3 days living aboard a boat on the reef. It was pretty awesome. Saw 2 sharks, giant clams, neon coloured parrot fish, clown-fish city (where Nemo lives), sea cucumbers, and loads of different types of coral and fish. We also did a night dive which was cool! And when we weren't diving, or preparing our equipment for divi...

Borneo was (and i quote) awesome. We spent the first night in a Dusan village, drinking rather thick potent rice wine with the locals and singing along as they played Guns and Roses on guitars and makeshift drums. Kiau was up in the hills, in the shadow of the daunting Mount Kinabalu. 8.7km and over 4000 metres high. The locals climb it up and down in 3 hours, pregnaunt, aged 80 or 10, with huge packs of supplies strapped to their foreheads. We were to spread it ...

Back in Bangalore. The bus from Pondicherry was delayed by two hours because of a boulder in the road. It as about 3am when we stopped abruptly and about 20 men tried to move it aside. When, after 2 hours of pushing, this failed, the bus driver put on his thinking cap and decided to go around it. Around it! Genius. Very little sleep was got that night because some guy insisted on keeping his window open so I was freezing and had curtains billowing in my face. ...

Today we are in Mallabarapurum - 2 hours up the coast from Pondicherry (where the boy was from in Life of Pi), doing what everyone should on holiday: lazing by the pool catching a few rays. Yes, here we can actually wear bikinis and walk around in our sarongs! And we found fellow westerners! Unfortunately, I have third degree burns from laying on the beach yesterday (yes I know mum!) so am keeping covered up. I was also struck down by a hideous rash and so am on ...