Island hopping, traditional villages and sunrise at Kelimutu – Our final days in Indonesia

James was feeling pretty revolting in the morning, having slept about 15 minutes, but Caro felt perky enough to go for a run, the first one in a long time. Whilst the run wasn’t fun at all, the beach was awesome at sunrise, and the volcano that had been shrouded in cloud the day before …

Hobbit people, giant rats and battling man flu with the local rocket fuel – Part 1 of our Flores road trip

Foreword: If you want to know how we managed to find Vinsen, our tremendous driver, please take a look at our blog: Exploring Flores - Some tips to help plan your trip On day one of our road trip we were up and fed early and were soon piled in to Vinsen’s car ready for our …

Exploring Flores – Some tips to help plan your trip

Here are our tips on planning the different aspects of a trip to Flores: Finding a Komodo Island Tour We only had one afternoon to find our Komodo Island tour, which is plenty of time if you aren’t a wimp, but we just didn’t have the energy to ask around a lot so we ended …

Diving and Snorkelling in Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park is said to have some of the best diving in the world and the excellent snorkelling we did on our Komodo tour had convinced Caro that she had to do some. We had asked around and none of the companies that we asked had any issue with her Junior Open Water card, …

Dragon, meet Dragon – Labuan Bajo and Komodo National Park

When we first started planning Indonesia, about a month before we actually got there, we had planned to visit Java first and then Lombok and the Gili Island. About two weeks before we left Malaysia northern Lombok was shaken by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake causing widespread destruction and hundreds of fatalities. Indonesians in general have …