So left Coral Bay and headed up to Exmouth. A mission to be acomplished! After 150km of just one straight road, we arrived at the national park of Cape Range, i think that's what it was called. Anyway there we spent a lovely afternoon on an amazing beach called Turquoise bay. It literally was the most pristine beach ever, but definitely only accessible by car and quite a way into the national park. Miles from anything. I snorkeled there just off the shore and let the strong current drift me downstream along the beach. The corals were beautiful, the fish in abundance and even sswam with a shark and rays. The current very strong at one point although i was without fins and did ok to get out of the sea and throw myself back on ... read more

For my last week in Bali, i left Ubud and the mainland and took a speedboat off to the Gili islands. The trip from Legian took under 2 hrs by road to Padangbai and then from their 1h30 to reach the Gili islands. I got off at the largest one, Trawangan. This looked liked paradise. Largest of the 3 islands in the Gili's but small enough to find peace and quiet, your own spot on the beach, your own lagoon to dip into every day and just enough choice of places to eat at night or to enjoy a sundowner over a beautiful sunset. Would've been rude not to hey!!! The journey over to the islands was quick and easy, and understood only once we were on the boat why it was a closed in speedboat, ... read more

Air Asia was a pleasant short flight from Singapore, just a mear 3hrs which is nothing for the journeys i have taken in the last 2 months! Landed on this island and went straight to Balangan beach on the south peninsula of Bukit where i parked myself at a surf warung (bungalow on the beach) for a few days and soaked up some sun and sea! Waking up to the view of surfers already out catching the waves at 09h30 was wonderful to say the least and the days there were totally unstressful. I lived on fresh fruit juices and and very quiet evenings catching up on some reading, as not had the chance to do much of that since i left Belgium!!! It was one of the best surf spots here so I am told ... read more

Having arrived just over a week ago in sparkling clean Singapore, i literally headed off after one night at my friend Manons to catch a dreaded 10hr night bus to the Perhentian islands. The awful thing about this bus ride was not only the crazy driving by the driver, which i noticed having arizen from the dead and in the need of a pee stop. This was when i noticed all other passengers were dead to the world, whilst i was witnessing the craziest overtaking skills (after india, still quite crazy driving, just no honking but lots of light flashing!). Anyway having arrived on the smaller island of the two, Cecil island and spent much of the morning searching for a decent guesthouse which took cc payment, we finally settled in at the Matahari guesthouse and ... read more

ha ha ha what an adventure that was! Manali also came and went and sorry for not updating you on my adventures there sooner but to be honest since we left Mcleod Ganj on the 3rd Sept, it has been just one big adventure since. Had a great time as you can probably imagine, meaning that updating travel blogs was the last thing on my mind. So I left Mcleod Ganj the night of the 3rd with some other friends who i had made whilst in Mcleod. We decided to go for the night bus option which was a 10hr bus ride, leaving around 8.30pm and arriving into Manali about 6am. This is where it all went tits up. Got on the bus and headed out of Dharamsala and along the dark road for about 2 ... read more