Time spent moving from homestay to homestay before settling at Edd's place for a few nights on the beach...and the start of my underwater adventures!

Quick recovery stop after Java!

Mount Bromo & Ijen Crater tour I don't know why we were ever worried about booking on a tour - maybe we felt that along with the cost, we weren't really 'backpacking'. But we have absolutely no regrets for spending the money, the tour was amazing and one of those 'once in a lifetime' type things (well, for now anyway!). So, we were picked up at midnight from our hostel, as we were going straight through to Bali, we had to check out of our room at midd...

The further we get from the UK, the worse I seem to be handling flying…so the flight to Jakarta was not my favourite for sure, especially the descent through the storm clouds where even the air hostess had to crouch on the floor next to us because of the sudden drop. Phew, I was glad to be on terra firma and we opted for the easier taxi ride to our hostel. Everything we'd read suggested that Jakarta airport was full of touts trying to get you into rip off taxis...

A quick lazy stop in the capital!