Blogs from Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 52

Innan vi lamnar Australien skanker vi bort vara sovsackar till valgorenhet och jordgubbssylten till sunkiga hostelets agare. Sedan flyger vi till Bali och landar nagon gang mitt i natten (kanns det som). Vi har inte varit utanfor flygplatsen i manga minuter innan vi ar uppraggade av hotell-inkastare och befinner oss i en taxi pa vag till Kuta. Hotellet ar helt OK men Kuta verkar lite overreklamerat och morgonen darpa lyckas vi ta oss vidare till en annan turistort, Sanur. Ganska snart star det klart for oss att turistidkare utnumrerar antalet turister manga ganger om och den vanligaste halsningsfrasen lyder "Hello Transport!?" tatt foljt av "Transport Yes!?". Vi spenderar totalt en knapp vecka pa on och hinner med diverse olika sevardheter. En dag far vi in till Balis huvudstad, Denpasar. Trevlig darfor att den inte ar sa ... read more

Well here we find an interesting little array of pictures! Needless to say I didn't choose these! Yes the scenery is mystical and stunning but please ignore the person in the bright turquoise shawl! Anyway, as you will have realised I have been somewhat slack on the whole Travelblog front in recent months! I intend to rectify this but you will have to bear with me. Lauren is very kindly adding some pictures to update backlogged blogs and I will try and fill in the blurbs as and when. This seems as a good a place to start as any though. I arrived in Kuta, Bali's busiest and in our eyes coolest resort numerous hours after Lauren did AND I left a couple of hours before her too!! Reason being I was flying Singapore Airlines and ... read more

WOW! What an amazing 3.5 months!!! As we boarded the plane last week for our 48 hour journey home, Leslie and I both wondered where the time had gone. From all the wonderful people we met and all the incredible sights we saw, we had a blast! For our last 2 weeks in Bali, we put away our Lonely Planet and introduced ourselves to vacation-mode! Ahhh, vacation! You know it's pretty bad when you need a vacation from your travels. It was nice to not have to pack up and move everyday or cram onto a bus at 6am!!! Now, don't get us wrong, our vacation-mode is not much different than travel-mode since there is still drinking, still sleeping in, and still eating....just lots more of it!!! Our friends from London, Ben and Tom (aka Prawn ... read more

After a very long bus ride right into Jarkarta I found myself with little motivation of exploring this big city. So I took another very long bus ride right across all of Java and with the ferry to Bali. The touristic centre of Bali is Kuta, a beach town on a peninsular south of the capital Denpasar. Between the main street and the beach a maze of alleys offers every kind of accomodation, food, and souveniers a backpacker might think of, a bit like Bangkoks Khao Sarn Road relocated at a beach. But most of the places were pretty deserted. A local shop owner told me that several bombings, the last one in October 2005, scared away the masses of beach bums and surfers that are generally heading for the place. On the last incident two ... read more

So from Melaka we caught a local and then express bus to KL. After walking the streets with our heavy packs and trying to avoid touts we finally found the Golden Triangle. As per usual Keith left Lisa with the heavy packs and an iced Milo at a roadside eatery and went off in search of somewhere to stay, clinging onto the trust Lonely Planet. Our first choice was full so after a couple of viewings we settled into our air conditioned room at the Green Hut Guesthouse. We bumped in to Shayne and Charlie who we met in Tioman, couldn't believe it! KL was by far the most modern city we have come across in SE Asia. Like Melaka there are a lot of Chinese and Indian residents. We could not get over all the ... read more