We spent tha last few days in Jakarta looking round the shopping malls, which are massive and very swanky. The transjakarta bus was a really good way to get around as it has it's own lane , so it misses the traffic, and the buses run every 5 mins or so. We tried to go out on both Thursday and Friday night but both nights were very unsuccessful. On Thursday we couldn't find Embassy, which is meant to be a good club, and after half an hour of walking in the wrong d...

We ae in Jakarta at the moment which is a little bit better than some of the other places we've been in Inonesia-it's a bit cleaner and they have lots of shopping malls but we still get hassled a lot. We are in a little hotel that is very basic but has everything we need-apart from a sink which is proving to be a bit of a challenge! We also discovered that we have a peeping Tom next door-I was in the bathroom and looked up to see a face in thew hole in the wall (...

We went to Borobudar temple yesterday and it was the most surreal experience ever! We walked up the ridiculously steep stairs to the top of the temple and sat down to catch our breath (this is what too much fried rice does to you) and a guy sat next to us to have his photo taken with us, which we thought was a bit strange but smiled anyway. The next thing we knew there was a crowd of people waiting to do the same thing, mainly families shoving their children in f...

I have discovered that I am not a big fan of Indonesia, infact I would go as far to say that I really do not like it and probably won't rush to come back. As soon as we entered customs at the airport we were ripped out, but it wasn't until we'd gone through customs that we realised the airport official had charged us twice as much as he should for our visas, which was no doubt going straight in his pocket. Then our bags were basically grabbed from us by 4 men in ...

We are now in Bali! I was quite glad to leave Australia as it rained non-stop in Cairns and we quickyl ran out of things to do. Sam did an open water diving course on the reef and I went an Aboriginal culture park which was terrible! We were shown a few videos and a laser show which was ok, but when it came to the dance show the dancers outnumbered the audience and they made us get on stage and dance with them, which reminded me of butlins and was so embarrassing...