Crab boysWe found these boys fishing for crabs.
From Lovina we headed south to Gunung Batur (Mt. Batur) and Lake Batur. The view of the mountain and the lake as we edged down the impossibly steep roads on the back of motorbikes was breathtaking. Before we arrived we had vague notions of a climb of Mount Batur and a more a well-formed conviction that would take a boat ride across the lake. Our Lonely Planet had pre-warned us about the persistant, often aggressive hawkers and touts. Right on cue, not ten minutes after our arrival as we sat in a restaurant*, they arrived. It's not what you want is
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Africa
I'm a second year psychology student at the University of Leicester, UK. In 2003 I went on a Coral Cay marine conservation expedition to the Perhentian Isalnds, Malaysia. After the expedition finished I travelled up to Thailand and Laos and caught both the travel bug and thank to James (a fellow diver) a passion for photography. Both have stayed with me and in 2004 I spent a month in Cambodia and Vietnam with my friends Hazel and Ash (another man with a good eye for a photo). This year (2005) it's Indonesia for 2 months with Elaine (my girlfriend). Watch this space...
