Blogs from Pulau Weh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Asia - page 3

Finally here Hi. It has taken a bit longer to find time to post than I had thought. The life of a student diver is actually quite busy. A couple of dives a day and then study, study, study the rest of the time. But I'm not complaining as you will see. Getting here The trip down here was uneventful apart from massive delays on the flights. In Amsterdam they found a problem in one of the engines and we sat in the plane and waited for more than four hours. All in all I sat in that bloody seat for more than almost 18 hours. New record. I had a full day in Kuala Lumpur and tried to get a visa, but Indonesian bureaucracy is annoyingly inconsistent and everything I had read beforehand proved not ... read more

Halo! We zijn eindelijk in het land waar wij wilden zijn! Ik zit nu op een klein mini laptopje te internetten en moest hier toch ongeveer een uur op wachten! Dit is ook de enige laptop op het gedeelte waar wij zitten... haha wat grappig he! Arend is al een paar dagen lekker aan het duiken en ik heb mijn eerste boek al uitgelezen en ga aan mn tweede beginnen.. beetje gezwommen en voor de rest helemaal niets behalve, slapen, eten, lezen etc.. Bier is hier niet te krijgen dus dat is lekker goed voor ons! Het is hier zo ontzettend mooi !! Pulau Weh is een mooi eiland. Wij zitten in Iboih een klein plaatsje en moesten een heel stuk lopen naar Yuliah's place. maar dat was het waard! We zaten de eerste nacht in ... read more

Hi! Well, we've finally got something to report! After a week of almost complete inactivity in KL we hit the road dramatically a few days ago, heading to Penang, just off the west coast north f KL. I say just because the ferry took 10 mins and cost approximately 24p! There's a bridge across as well, that's actually the longer distance! That was after the 8ish hour overnight train ride though, but 3rd class in Malaysia compares quite favorably with some British Rail trains I've been on in recent years. We stayed in Georgetown for a couple of days, taking in some of the Penang National Park (we trekked to Monkey Beach - sadly it was too late in the day for the monkeys who'd already eaten their fill of tourists.) Then we headed here, leaving ... read more

Well i love Sumatra. I arrived in Medan, the gateway to sumatra about 2 weeks ago and quite liked it form the off. There were not loads of scam artists and rip off merchants, i think as tourism has dwindled here so have the numbers of mosquito men that follow them around. Any scamming attempts were pretty lame and offered some free amusement. I was there for a minute outside the terminal before one old gut followed me and sat down next to me in the cafe that i went in to escape. He pointed to the tourist office and said it was his office, then handed me his card, which was a bit of notepaper with his scrawled contact details on, with ' Tourist ofise' written above it. He can get me to my hotel ... read more

Hi all! A bit behind with the travel blogs, as you can see from the date that this was published we are doing a bunch all in Singaopore. But from Indonesia here we go.......................... Indonesia was brilliant! The journey was eventful to say the least, ferry crossing from Melaka in Malaysia was fine until we got off........where Meme got her bag searched for smuggling tampons! They didn't care about all the unlabelled vitamins and assortment of antibiotics and not forgetting those clean syringes-oh no just the tampons. Do you know how hard it is to tell 2 men that don't speak english what a tampon is (apperntly they don't have them in Indo!)...I tell you what bloody difficult, they just kept feeling them, they even smelt them! First stop was Bukkittinggi, which was a bit random ... read more