Ok so after I arrived in Addis I had a 3 day wait until my travel buddy arrived. I’d promised Jamila that I would go and see any of the major sites without her. So I just chilled out and had a walk around the streets just trying all the different food. Ethiopian food has been one the major surprises of the trip so far. They have a dish called Tibs which is similar to Mexican Fajitas. Spicy is the name of the day everything has a kick to it!!! Tibs is served wit...

Ok so here is the first blog of my new adventure. Well as you may know I’ve been living in Australia working on a pig farm since February 2011. It was a really cool time but I’ve been really keen to get back on the road. The real truth is I just can’t put up with the Australia winter it’s too cold!!! So here I am now in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but it was an adventure getting here!! I booked my flight to Addis from Australia through a travel agent. The chea...

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...