Sumatra: The Mentawai Islands
February 13th 2010 Lying 135km west of Sumatra are the little known Mentawai Islands. This was to be our next destination having flown on a whim, and another cheap Air Asia flight, from Kuala Lumpur to Padang. Getting to, and finding any information about, these far away islands was to prove seriously tricky and testing but ultimately worth it.
Due to the contrasting nature of our time I have split the account i
... read more