hello again, we are flying to Hanoi today at 4:15. we get into Vietnam at around 7pm and hoefuly eveything goes smoothly with our visas. we stayed in the Gili Islands for 5 days and then it was back to old Legian. i was ill for most of the time we were there but it was beautiful. we looked into diving but it was a bit crowded so we will save it for Vietnam and Thailand. then it was back to Bali, pretty much because we needed to save some money and there was jus...

we are leaving for Gili Islands tomorrow at 6 am. another early morning!! we will probably be on Gili Trawangan for a few days and maybe go to another island, depends on time. so hopefully we can get some nice diving in and nice beach time as well. its the low season just now, so hopefully evertything will be a bit cheaper!! till then!!

hello. it has been a while, and by a while, i mean a week. A ton has happened since we left yogyakarta. we took a bus to Bromo, which was the scariest ride of our lives. the driver nearly crashed numerous times. for some reason the indonesian people love to overtake one car at a time while driving at a ridiculous speed and then quickly change back into their lane just to wait to overtake again. it is very frightening. and when it became nighttime, everyone jus...

hi! we have been in yogyakarta now for a couple of days. and it so different than Jakarta, in a very good way. We only spent a day in Jakarta and then bolted. It was very hectic there and the pollution is terrible. So we are now here in central Java, and it is wonderful. The streets are still a chaotic but its not so urban as jakarta. Our place is very nice and it only costs $4 US dollars a night. The people here are very kind as well. Yesterday we went to t...

well we are flying to jakarta tomorrow at 10am. so we are back here in Kuala Lumpur for the night. we just returned from an amazing 3 days in Pulau Redang. Its a tiny island off the east coast of Malaysia. so we took a 7 hour overnight bus ride to Kuala Terrenganu. slept at the bus station for an hour and a half, then were picked up by the hotel people, slept in their office for 2 more hours, then caught a ferry to the island. After all the sleeping in random ...