Adventures in Pulau Weh!

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May 20th 2008

Published: June 24th 2008

(There is a blog missing which covers Malaysian Borneo, including Miri & Sipadan. This will be added ASAP) We flew from Tawau to Kuala Lumpur and then had an 8 hour wait before our flight to Medan. Medan is the capital of Sumatra - the furthest east island of Indonesia which happens to be the most populous Muslim country in the world. During the long wait we got Mon's eyes checked out by the ai... Read Full Entry

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Joe Smith and Monika Kozak

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We spent a year and a half travelling in 2006/2007 and were back in the UK for 6 months, but it is shit so we are going back to South East Asia for another 6 months before returning on a more permanent basis. The plan is to travel round SEAsia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Idonesia are on the "to do" list at the moment.) Plan to do see some ancient temples (Ankor Wat is top of the list), do lots of trekking and as much diving as we can as well as some sitting around and drinking tiger beer and singha. Will be meeting up with as many friends from our previous trip as we can (Hanna,... full info

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Gapang Beach.

One of Mons panoramic shots

Mon and Jack

Mon and Joe on the plane

Mon jumping for joy the plum!

The dive shop

The dive shop boat and crew on there way out for a dive

Little Mr Perfect

Not.....

Joe playing with the mutts

Local guys fixing a boat

This was the dives shop other boat that was being fixed up. By the time we were leaving 12 days later ii was practically complete.

View to the right hand side of the dive shop.

It wasn't much of a road as such, but there were little cafes scattered along it that we sometimes ate at.

Red the dog cooling off in the water

Funky grasshopper

We saw plenty of weird looking creatures when we were on the island, this was one of them.

Rainy days

Amazing sunsets

They were picture perfect.

Some of the dive shop crew

Mr Market

You could order what fruit or veg you wanted from Mr. Market. You can't actually see him behind his huge pile of produce!

Little chick! ahhhhhhh

The next door cafe had a baby chick for about 3 days until he mysteriously disappeared and we saw the local cats licking their lips...

Jacky rolling on the grass!

Joe and goat

Joe wanted to have a picture taken with this goat.. It got a little tricky as you can see...

Another wierd bug.

4th July 2008

Wendin
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Awesome"ness"
The pictures are fabulous and you have given me the best idea of what the island is like to me and my friend Syamil...who would soon be going to Weh Island... makes me more eager to visit that little island!

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