Bumi Ayu Sanur

... was quite outrageous in the sense that it had sexual and suicidal themes, which cam as an unexpected surprise. After this we went to a silver shop in Jaluk, mum kindly purchased a silver and gold bracelet for me. It is pure silver and 18 carat gold. Bargained from 1600,000 rupiah to 800,000. After this we went to a wood carving shop. There like at the silver shop we saw how they made the amazingly elaborate items. The carving was so spectacular they were almost ...

... to take us to our next destination, the island of Gili Trawangan, we were told that due to the bad weather forecast for the following day, the boat had been cancelled. Not only that, but our hut was booked out by someone else so we had to move all our stuff into a different hotel while we waited for the boats to start running again. We were not sure how much more of Jack Johnson's monotonous nursery rhymes we could handle, but luckily the weather cleared up and we managed to book ...

Here's the scoop! Idiot here cocked up the dates. Our flights were originally on the night of the 22nd connecting with the second on the 23rd arriving in Cairns. Stupidly I had in my head that we flew on the 23rd. So we arrived back from the Gili's a few hours before our flight and only realized that we had missed them both the next morning when we should have been getting off in Cairns. I hope your not confused now either. Now the rat race started. We tore up and down ...

Mondy 15th December, 2008 Get a lift to the airport from Tanja. At security start talking to the lady who does the explosives test on my clothes, turns out she's from Manang and knows of Gerard. Roz St George is her name. Flight to KL is nice until the landing, where we hit the tarmac with one wheel and go bouncing about all over the place. Get out of KLIA in record time and get a taxi to the Air Asia terminal (RM 34). Check in for ...

... head to Ubud (about a 90 minute drive) where I will spend my final 4 nights in Indonesia. Amazing to think how quickly this vacation has gone by (isn't that always the case though?) Oh yeah, once again I find myself strangely addicted to purchasing pirated movies that have a 95% chance of not working on my DVD player at home. If anyone out there is a gambler and would like to take a chance on some of these $1 movies, do send me your list. Shaunta

... misfits who were anxious to sort me out with lodgings all for a mere 80 million or 90 million - that works out as more than I was bloody paying at home!! So finally settled on a little villa that Chris 'Trust me, this is the best villa I have ever seen!' showed me. Along with Bande, my new... well house agent. He drops by every now and again to register me with the police station, (60,000Rp Bribe to get the paperwork sorted ...

... in a glass bottomed boat, thrown in the water to snorkel. The coral was awesome. Then landed on turtle island. The trutles were AWESOME. They were HUGE and the 70 year old 'big boy' looked very wise and kind. We also held a python, a fruit bat, a monkey and a lizard. The fruit bat then proceeded to give itself fellacio which was most amusing!! Our final full day in Bali we did an island tour staring with a Balinese dance show - very rude sense of humour withlots of ...

... things we will not miss about lovely Alam Indah are the dim lighting; the periodic nightime visits from monkeys, rats and one mammoth cockroach; and the gecko poop that appears as if by magic on the desk, bathroom floor, or paperback novel on bedside table. I slept the last night on the daybed on the upstairs deck. I loved sleeping here, outside with fresh ...

Back in the winter of 1992 my mum took myself and my younger brother Liam to Indonesia. This was the first time I had been overseas. For the first 10 days we tagged along on a tour with a class of school students learning Indonesian. My mum had a friend who taught Indonesian at primary school, who needed a couple of extra people to join the trip to get discount flights to and accommodation in Bali. My mother, who had lived and traveled throughout Indonesian when ...

... Great scenery on the way back - steep rice terraces, people using big banana leaves as umbrellas in the rain. More stops at temple at Bangli & Elephant Cave (boring) Back to the hotel clinic to have P's ears syringed. Walked along the beach Nice seafood dinner - turtle meat sate style & chargrilled mackerel