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Nights spent in country 26 (March) Time spent on buses / planes / boats 24h / 3h / 44h Cost of a pint of beer $2 Cost of a meal in a restaurant $3 Daily budget for a couple (inc. accommodation, tours, and numerous diving trips) $150 Route Our first experience in Indonesia … Continue reading
We stayed in three different places on Bali’s coastline, broken up by trips to Ubud, Flores and Gili Air. The first stop was three nights in Pemuteran which is on the North West coast, just outside a national park and about an hour from the ferry terminal of Gilimanuk where we had arrived from Java. … Continue reading
The three small Gili islands lie just off the coast of the island of Lombok. A bit of research suggested there was a party island (Gili Trawangan), a quiet island (Gili Meno), and then a mix of the two (Gili Air). The three Gili islands, viewed from Lombok Not that we’ve grown out of partying … Continue reading
Inspired by some of our friends’ adventures, we had wanted to do a boat trip along the Indonesian islands to the east of Bali, seeing Komodo dragons along the way, and finishing with some diving in Labuan Bajo on the western tip of the island of Flores. However, since it’s not recommended to fly for … Continue reading
We spent two nights in Ubud – Bali’s cultural capital. First impressions were that it was pretty chilled out and geared up for trendy, arty types, with quite a few modern fashion shops, art galleries and chic bars. It reminded me a bit of Luang Prabang in Laos. On our first afternoon we strolled down … Continue reading
With Yogyakarta as our starting point, we embarked on a three day, two night tour of Mt. Bromo and Mt. Ijen, terminating at our destination of Bali. The sights were great and we met some real fun people along the way, but the tour company was such a joke we could only laugh. Be … Continue reading
While up in the Philippines we had firmed up our plans for our final three weeks in Indonesia, and South East Asia for that matter. It started with flying from Manila to the city of Yogyakarta in Java (via Bali). We were pleasantly surprised with Yogyakarta; it wasn’t too built up or noisy, there weren’t … Continue reading
Nights spent in country 14 (late February / early March) Time spent on buses / planes / boats 11h / 2h / 6h Cost of a pint of beer $1.45 Cost of a meal in a restaurant $2.50 Daily budget for a couple (inc. accommodation) $102 Route We spent a relaxing two weeks in the … Continue reading
For us, Manila was the gateway to the picturesque islands of Palawan and Coron. Of all the cities in South East Asia, this one seemed to have the worst reputation; we met someone in Coron who had a necklace snatched off her neck while here. However, we did also want to trek up the nearby … Continue reading
We had come to Coron since the diving was reportedly good and it was well connected with El Nido and Manila. We didn’t have the best of starts; our 8AM boat from El Nido was held up by the port authorities because the crew had lost some paperwork. A friendly Danish couple we had dined … Continue reading
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