Destination: Indonesia

Three Capitals in Twelve Hours

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Views [788]

While the rest of the world tuned in to Barack Obama’s inauguration we joined about 200 other travelers and tried to get comfortable on the cold, hard tile floor of the Kuala Lumpur airport.   KL has become the budget priced hub of choice for SE Asia ... Read more >

Gallery: Java

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 | By seesea | Photo Gallery

Ubud

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [1412] | Comments [1]

The plan was to explore each of the Gili Islands, but in the end we stayed on Gili T for a week before heading back to Bali and Ubud. The journey was long (12 hours) but pretty uneventful except a small diversion off the road to avoid a monkey and ... Read more >

Tags: lovina, monkeys, ubud

Gili T

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [3653] | Comments [4]

Heir to the Throne Gili Trawangan or 'Gili T' as it's known to the locals is the largest of the 3 Gili islands, that said it has no motorised transport (transport is provided by horse drawn carriages that sound like Reindeer due to the small ... Read more >

Gallery: Jobja

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 | By jsherdc | Photo Gallery

Indonesia

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By faifailemu | Views [1118] | Comments [1]

Okay, Okay ladies and gentlemen, sorry for not writing anything over the past 8 weeks but as you can imagine the last thing we want to do is sit behind a computer when we are surrounded by such beauty and such freedom. Oh my, where to start....since ... Read more >

Gallery: BALI ( Amed )

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By cookteam | Photo Gallery

Gallery: BALI ( Ubud )

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By cookteam | Photo Gallery

Gallery: BALI ( Kuta )

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By cookteam | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Lake Toba

Thu, 8 Jan 2009 | By jenny-tom | Photo Gallery

Lake Toba

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 | By jenny-tom | Views [612] | Comments [2]

We are currently At Lake Toba in Nortern Sumartra, this is a bit of a travellers hang out, very pleasant as we have certainly been off the beaten trail. The internet here is veery slow will make this quick, expanded version face to face. We went by ... Read more >

Gallery: Ubud, Bali

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 | By justin | Photo Gallery

Gili Trawangan - Ubud (Bali)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 | By justin | Views [845]

Finally managed to drag myself away from the Island of Gili Trawangan this morning.   I didn’t mention in my previous journal entries but the boat I was previously booked on for the 2 nd January sank!   Fortunately there were no casualties;    however ... Read more >

To Lombok we go

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [2090] | Comments [3]

After a couple of nights in sleepy Sanur we decided to make a break from Bali and head to Lombok, as Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands we thought we would cross a few off the list before we leave, only 16,998 to go. The evening before we ... Read more >

Tags: lombok

the backpacker's mecca- lombok

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 | By sea2summit | Views [2788] | Comments [2]

Alfred Russell Wallace, a natural scientist in the 19th century marked a point of transition between the flora and fauna of the western and the eastern Indonesia, this is called the Wallace line. The western boundary mark being west nusa ... Read more >

Tags: indonesia, lombok, rinjani, senggigi