P: Still could feel my legs from climbing, but anyway i decided to see another atraction in here. Ipa was boycoting it, she said, she doesn't need to see some flower. Even if it is the biggest flower in the world...:) But i just couldn't miss the chance. The flower is actually parasit, but it is, as you can see big. There are only coulpe of guid...

We took the long way to Bukittinggi, not that there is a short way. Christmas travel planning narrowed our choices down to 'somewhere in Indonesia'. Not actually very narrow. The leading candidates were Sumatra (but where, exactly) and Java (again - where?). Java and Sumatra are both very large islands on which you could easily spend three month...

Another bad nights sleep thanks to the hustle and bustle of Bukittinggi and we were woken up early again by the sung prayers in the surrounding mosques. Not much to report back except for going to the Bank - a very arduous task due to the language barrier and getting some passport photos done which was equally painful. The main excitement of the...

We were up late this momrning in Bukittingi (pronouced bucket-ting-gee)and decided that we would look for Hotel Orchid which had been recommended in a number of our guide books. We did like the price tag of the Bamboo but for one pound more we could get western loos.... this is well worth the price increase ! We found an internet cafe and did th...

Pozdravljeni! Se opravicujeva, ker se toliko casa nisva nic oglasila, ker ali interneta ni bilo ali pa je bil zelo drag, na primer v hribih je bila minuta sto tolarjev, tukaj na zahodni strani Sumatre pa je cela ura 300 tolarjev. Se sva ziva in zdrava tud, mava mal tezav s prebavo, ampak nic hujsega. Od takrat, ko sva se zadnjic javila sva nared...

Indonesian Jungle Trek It was Christmas night and we were finally on our way. Our boat was originally supposed to sail two days earlier so that we could spend Christmas on Siberut island, an island off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. But as is often the case in Indonesia we didn't actually leave on time. Siberut Island is west of Padang in...