We arrived in Perth at around 4.30am and boy could we tell the difference in temperature! We knew it would be colder than Indonesia but it was so cold we shivering! We were met at the airport by Ged and Audey who we would be staying with over the next few days. Audrey was my mum's best friend from school who had emigrated to Perth 8 years ago with her husband Ged and their two children Alan and Claire. In fact, whilst we were there Audrey found a really old...

Getting here was a bit of a mission, but now we are here it was well worth it! From Kuta we it was supposed to take 6 hours to get here, but after catching a bus, a ferry, another bus and then a speed boat it was more like 11hours by the time we arrived. There are three tiny islands that make up the Gili islands and we chose to stay on Gili Trawangan which is the slightly bigger of the three, and the most lively! There's a party every second night at a diffe...

We did manage to get a flight at the airport at Medan but it meant stopping at Java first... anyway, 6hours later we arrived at Bali airport! Yipeeee! We actually landed at around 11pm but by the time we had got our bags and got in to Kuta it was well gone midnight and we had yet to find a place to stay. The following 2 hours turned out to be the worst two hours of our accommodation hunting since we had started travelling. Basically, we walked to the main b...

It was a NIGHTMARE getting here... have we mentioned how horrendous the buses and roads are in Indonesia?!?! Well, we just endured another 6 hours, and a ferry, but I have to say it was worth it - it's gorge here! Lake Toba is a huge volcanic lake - the biggest in the world, and the lake itself is the deepest in the world! It's 450 metres deep and just the island in the middle of it (where we're staying) is the size of Singapore! We found a gorgeous traditi...

The only reason we came to Berastagi was to climb an active volcano which is pretty famous in the area called Sibayak. There are 2 volcanoes, both active, so much so that we heard one of them was closed as it's due to blow anytime soon!!! Obviously we didn't climb that one! From Bukit Lawang we caught the local bus back to Medan and then from there another two buses to Beristagi - I might add at this point that travelling on the roads in Sumatra are the wors...