I arrived in Surabaya, Java early in January and there were a few places I really wanted to see, the first being Borobudur, the famous ancient temples of Indonesia. Surabaya is in the east of Java so firstly I headed west on one of the local trains. I couldn’t get a 2nd class seat so ended up in 3rd class which for the locals was a very strange thing to see. It isn’t that much more for 2nd class, that’s why it’s very rare to see a traveller in this carria...

Hello again well firstly Im writing this a long time after I left Indonesia, I got very lazy and stopped doing my blog, (its hard work you know)!! Its now July 2011 so you can see how lazy Ive been haha. Ok, so ill pick it up from when I left Lake Manijiau. I knew it was going to be bad journey however I left Bukki Tinggie as the roads and drivers are the worst ive ever seen. So I paid for a luxury car $25 for an 18 hour bus ride to Parapat. The plan was to get ...

So here we go Indonesia. I've been looking forward to travelling Indonesia for about 2 years after a good friend said it was the best in the world. I think he maybe right. I took the boat from Melaka to a little port town called Dumai, Sumatra everyone including the people who live there said it wasn't a place to stop. They were right. If your wandering where Sumatra is as many do, it's the island that was hit by the Tsunami, then an earthquake 2008 and this...