A blog about the world seen for the first time
The sea is a scary place. Aside from the constant threat of drowning, there’s also a lot of things that want to kill you in there. Stonefish, lion fish, blue ringed octopus, sea snakes,...
Passing through Ninoy Aquinas International Airport, Laura and I decided to have a massage. As we weren’t spending time in the Philippines itself, we had some currency to spend, and after a night spent...
On the night that we arrived in Ranau, we were shocked to find a huge number of small birds standing on the telephone lines. Whilst it isn’t a large town, Ranau is still a...
After a surprisingly relaxing night (particularly considering the previous evening’s ordeal) in the open air just offshore of Komodo Island, we were awoken early by the sun casting a little light over the horizon....
We woke up bright and early, ready to check out of our hostel. We were due to meet our boatmates at the Alexandra travel shop, a hundred metres up the road, before boarding a...
Labuan Bajo is the base of operations for almost any tourist operations in Flores. Most importantly, the trips to Komodo and Rinca, home of the fearsome Komodo dragon left from there. The only problem...
We woke early in the morning for the drive to Mount Batur. Very early. Setting out at 2 in the morning, we’d been left with a quandary as to whether we should sleep or...
The descent from Gitgit falls was much clearer than the foggy climb, allowing us impressive views over Lake Beratan and beyond. We bristled with excitement at seeing one of Bali’s most picturesque temples –...
After leaving Tegalalang, the journey up to Gitgit was a little longer, and contained a lot of near misses on the narrow roads. The bikes outside of Ubud seemed to have a similarly incautious...
We woke up early in preparation for a long day ahead of us. We were hoping to take in the tegalalang rice fields, beratan water temple and the twin gitgit waterfalls, all in one...
After spending two days in Ubud, we still hadn’t been to visit the monkey forest that was the town’s most famous feature. Realising all of a sudden that our time in Ubud was all...
The road up to Ubud from Kuta was long and arduous. We were passengers in an Uber, so not for us, but due to a single lane carriageway and a huge amount of traffic,...
After spending the first 5 weeks of our trip running around more or less continuously (in both Borneo and Bali), we decided that, on our return to Kuta, we’d spend a couple of days...
