So it’s now been two weeks in java and we have visited a variety of places and the one remaining factor is still that Indonesian people are so nice in each place we have been to. We have been to some fantastic place in java the first was a town called bondowoso where we got transport to the ijen sulphur volcano. We started early and the trek was very difficult and we didn’t get to see much because the weather was not great but the experience was good taking local transport and getting to see the guy’s working at the volcano [View Full Entry]

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Hello again since the last blog we are back on the right track and having a great time. We left bali to go to Lombok and Gili Trawangan island. We spent two days on the mainland before going to the islands, Lombok is not as touristy as bali but I feel it will grow as it is an amazing and beautiful place and they have just opened an international airport on the mainland. The two days where spent chilling out and organizing transport to the island. I came across this really good surf spot where I watched the locals surf like [View Full Entry]

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hello as i am writing this believe it or not i am back in Bali and i have swapped my Auz book for a Indonesia one. We went to Australia with good intentions of finding work and having some good times their, but the country was so expensive that while we where looking for work the money i worked so hard to save for was being eaten away on just the basic living cost. their was no work available even fruit picking because the harvest had been effected by fire's and floods and to travel to the next destination cost [View Full Entry]

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Hello so it’s my last day in Bali now and I and mika feel sad to be leaving Asia for the western world of Australia. I like the lack of rule’s, regulations, and risk assessments here in Asia and the use more of just common sense. So Bali, I was here on holiday 7 years ago just before the bomb and had a fantastic holiday. So I was sad to here about the bombing and the future of tourism in Bali but since being here now I can safely say that Bali and the people have moved on and it is [View Full Entry]

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hello i have now spent two weeks in malasyia and have been to a variety of place's our first destination was the border town of Kota Baru. Not much to do here but their was a great night food market that served up great indian and chinese food, the first thing i noticed as soon as entering malaysia was the mixed cultures of india, chinese and malay. It reminded us of good things about our time in india like the food and we where back to using our hands to eat at the indian resturants. next we to the jungle train [View Full Entry]

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Hello it’s been a while since my last blog but I have been buisy chilling out on the world most beautiful beaches. I have also done a lot of activities and done a lot of traveling which now currently place’s me in Kota Bahru Malaysia. I will start from where I left you all last time which was the border run to Burma which was a very long night and day. The boat we caught to go to the mainland was something similar to a refugee boat; well that’s how I felt! Just mattresses on the floor and loads of people [View Full Entry]

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hello and happy new year hope everyone had a good christmas and new year, mine was very different from previous years but i had a great time. Not much to tell on this blog really as i have not been up to much, i spent the last 10 day's on ko pha ngan partying all the time as this is what the island is famous for. I have seen some characters here on this island people literaly partying for 24 hours and more. we spent xmas day on the beach then went to a english pub for xmas dinner, the dinner [View Full Entry]

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hello time to do the bangkok blog, we have been to bangkok a few times on our travels as it has been a stop of point to get to other places, but this time we stayed to do some tourist stuff and we have done alot in the week that we have been here. the first thing we done was went on a night out on the backpacker hub of the ko san road, this road is famous for buying all sorts of things from food to clothes and fake id's like driver liscence or you can even get a degree. [View Full Entry]

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sawasdee (hello) hope everyone is ready for xmas i know i am! looking forward to xmas with a difference being on a tropical party island paridise, untill then i am doing some sight seeing in bangkok. anyway a brief discription of my time in north thailand in pai, we arrived in chang mai and decided to leave for pai because everything we wanted to do was in pai and we wanted to meet our friends we met in vietnam their. pai is fantastic place for just getting a motorbike annd a map and going of on your own to explore, we [View Full Entry]

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Hello arrived in Luang Prabang after a six hour bus journey from vang vieng. Luang Prabang was perfect for what we wanted to do, we just wanted to take things slow, relax and do some sight seeing after lots of partying in vang vieng. We spent a good week in Luang prabang because we met some good friends and just really enjoyed being their, the food was really good especially at the night market where we eat a few times for very cheap with a good atmosphere and great food. We also discovered a Scandinavian bakery where we treated ourselves to [View Full Entry]

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