After yet another horrendous Indonesian bus journey of lateness, freezing cold temperatures, stopping to change buses in the middle of the night and all-night-long music blaring out we arrived in Samarinda a little bleary eyed. Having checked into a slightly more upmarket hotel than we would usually stay in, as most low cost accommodation in Samarinda is known to be diar, we then set about the task of finding a guide to do our final activity in Kalimantan with; a...

We got picked up by our guide, Joe, at around 9am, with his wife and 18 month old baby who were also joining us on the drive as her family lived near Loksado. The drive to Loksado took about 3 hours, stopping on the way to look at a diamond polishing workshop, and then for lunch at a roadside warung for Ayam Bakar (BBQ chicken), rice and vegetables. On arrival in Loksado we dropped off Joe’s family and parked up at a nearby hotel before packing our bags and hea...

Feeling excited to be going to see wild orangutans in one of only three places in the world, we were picked up by our guide 'Rudy' along with his 18 year old niece who he was training up to be a guide. We were driven to the nearby town of Kumai, where we boarded the boat that would be our home for the next 3 days. Lacking the luxury of our houseboat in India, our boat was instead small and simple, with an upper deck on which we slept on mattresses, a toilet and b...

Looking forward to what Borneo had in the way of adventure we arrived into it's capital, Balikpapan, on the 8th of January. The flight we took with Batik Air was very smooth though you couldn't help having a bit of a nagging concern in the back of your head due to the recent AirAsia crash which took place over the same sea. Upon arrival we took a massively overpriced airport taxi to 'Rina's Guesthouse' which we had pre-booked. There wasn't much in the way of ch...

On 3rd of Jan we took the boat to the island of Lombok; our plan was to go east via land and boat to the Komodo Islands, the only place in the world that you can see the famous Komodo dragons. This was to be achieved in around 2 days via the islands of Lombok, Sumbawaya and Flores, and would be our longest journey since taveling south to Kerala in India. After reaching the mainland in Lombok we headed away from the touts at the dock who always want to get you i...