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The multicoloured lakes of Kelimutu
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 18 December 2009
Taxis don’t really exist in this part of Indonesia, which is how I found myself tearing up the side of a mountain on the back of a motorbike at 4am in pitch blackness, without a helmet, pointlessly racing three other motorbikes carrying similarly terrified foreigners round tight bends, and regularly having to slam on the [...]
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Bali, Indonesia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 17 December 2009
Getting from the airport to town in a new destination is always an interesting exercise.
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Apply placenta extract daily to hyponotized insomniac
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 17 December 2009
Brace yourself for this disarming development: My leg wound got infected.
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Business Of The Week – The Instant Digital Photo Man
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 16 December 2009
Not sure if this Business Of The Week is going to make The Wall Street Journal, but I admire the enterprising nature of this guy. Since the demise of the Polaroid Camera, I thought that the days of people coming up to you in the street saying that they could take an instant photo of you [...]Business Of The Week – The Instant Digital Photo Man is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird Travel - The Travel Tart
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The most beautiful creature in the ocean
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 16 December 2009
As if having Komodo dragons wasn’t enough of an attraction, the Komodo-Rinca National Park also turns out to be one of the best diving spots in the world. All those powerful currents in the relatively narrow Komodo Strait mix warmer and colder water from the Flores Sea to the north and the Sunda Sea & [...]
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Here be dragons
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 14 December 2009
As the boat approached Komodo, we were all busy trying to convince ourselves that it really didn’t matter if we didn’t see any dragons, you know, as the snorkelling had been so good and my what beautiful sunsets and weren’t the flying foxes amazing and how it’s all about the journey rather than the arrival [...]
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Sailing off in search of dragons
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 12 December 2009
I was faced with three options when it came to getting to Komodo. Would it be the expensive flight on a dodgy Indonesian airline? Or maybe the uncomfortable 31 hour bus-boat-bus-boat overland option? Or perhaps the four-day all-inclusive boat trip island-hopping all the way from Lombok to Flores, taking in Komodo along the way? It [...]
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Top 5 Memorable Massages in the World
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 11 December 2009
Yesterday we had our first massage in India. It was a memorable experience and you can read about it here. We had the full body Ayurvedic Massage will therapeudic oils. I am sure that we will be having more as we go through our travels. It made us think about the other memorable massages that we have had on our past travels. We love getting a massage, it is a luxury that we cannot afford to have regularly at home, so we take advantage of it wherever we go. Some experiences have been better than others and some stand our in our memories better than others.
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My new favourite island
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 11 December 2009
I’m planning to head back to the Gili Islands for New Year to meet some mates from back home, so I figured I should check out one of the other so I could decide which one we should agree on. So I spent my last day on the islands visiting Gili Air – which was [...]
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High 85 degrees, low 72 degrees, current temperature 76 degrees
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 11 December 2009
Apparently in many places in the country from whence I came, it is now snowing. I see these messages popping up all over Facebook, gchat, and Skype: "Snow!" or the more enthusiastic "SNOW!" or the resigned and sullen "snow."
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Time to hit the beach
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 9 December 2009
I’d had rather a hectic five weeks since leaving Santiago – 8 long flights, 3 12 hour overland journeys, and staying in 14 different places in 4 different countries, and quite frankly after all that I was knackered. This called for serious measures: time to hit the beach. Now the problem with that is there [...]
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Sea Sentosa- Seeing a cleaner future for Bali
Blog: Pommie Travels - 8 December 2009
If you’ve ventured down to Echo Beach in Canggu lately you may have noticed some building work going on on a large are of land near the beachfront. This is the beginnings of Bali’s next generation apartment resort, Sea Sentosa, which is set to open in 2012. Following the success of the Sentosa Villas and Spa [...]
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Skinny dipping and simple pleasures
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 8 December 2009
Last week, Jenny and I took advantage of our three-day weekend to spend some time out of Kota Jambi. We caught a night bus to Bukit Tinggi (actually we caught two night buses, as we were rudely awakened by in the middle of the night, herded off one bus, and shoved on to another). That second bus was my lucky bus, as I was somehow awarded the best seat in the house -- the space behind the last row, that little shelf that is perfect for either luggage or an extremely sleepy person, such as I was at the time.
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How to break up a two-day bus journey in style
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 7 December 2009
It was on travelling from Yogyakarta to Bali, that I realised quite how big a place Indonesia is. Java is only one island out of the 17,000 that make up the country, and a pretty small one compared to Sumatra or Borneo, and yet it took us two whole days of travelling – fifteen hours [...]
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Eat Pray Love- Meeting Ketut Liyer
Blog: Pommie Travels - 6 December 2009
I realised, after I had been walking around Ubud’s main street asking where I could find the medicine man Ketut Liyer, that I had been pronouncing his name wrong; ‘Ketut Liar” instead of ‘Ketut Leeyer’. It might have been an appropriate pronunciation, however, for the man made famous in the Eat Pray Love book. I’m ashamed [...]
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How to see temples without the crowds: Borobudur & Prambanan
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 5 December 2009
If you asked most people to name a historic temple in South East Asia, you can bet that the vast majority would name Angkor Wat. In fact I’m sure most people would struggle to name many more. I know that was the case for me before I came to Asia, and on [...]
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Silly Travel Photo – The Spanner Car Door Handle
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 4 December 2009
Today’s Silly Travel Photo is one that I took recently on my month long Travel Blogging trip to Indonesia (you can view the feed of this trip here). It’s the Spanner Car Door Handle! This photo was taken inside an Angkot, a mini-van form of public transport in the southern Sumatran city of Palembang. The door in [...]Silly Travel Photo – The Spanner Car Door Handle is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird Travel - The Travel Tart
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Where is everybody?
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 3 December 2009
My trip to Indonesia didn’t get off to the best of starts, as a huge storm kicked up on our approach to Jakarta, meaning we had to divert to Singapore. By that time, we were running low on fuel, and the pilots had already worked over their maximum hours, so we had to sit around [...]
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Babies and fruit
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 3 December 2009
Who's been waiting for more adorable baby pictures? Brooke? Was it you? I think it was! Well, only because I totally love you...There he is!
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Two Heads Are Better Than One – But Not If You’re A Buffalo
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 27 November 2009
Two Heads are better than one. Well that’s how the old cliche goes. But sometimes, I’d rather just have one head than Two Heads. Check out this photo from the Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It’s a bit off putting, isn’t it? Yes, this is a freakish photo of a Two Headed Buffalo calf that was born in [...]Two Heads Are Better Than One – But Not If You’re A Buffalo is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird
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Look Upon This Picture, And On This...
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 November 2009
When is a famous historic building not a famous historic building? When it's a scale model, of course.In last week's Canberra post I talked about our visit to Cockington Green Gardens, a tourist attraction filled with miniature replicas of English village settings. However, it also has an international section.
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Crazy Travel Photo – Bong Collection
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 19 November 2009
It’s time for this weeks Crazy Travel Photo – the Bong Collection shop! This Crazy Travel Photo was spotted in the city of Jambi, in Sumatra, Indonesia. Obviously, the Bong Collection shop sells shoes and clothes, but sometimes things don’t translate well into English. However, this Crazy Travel Photo probably does have a feasible explanation. I have a feeling [...]Crazy Travel Photo – Bong Collection is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Wei
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Travel Blogger For Hire – Pitfalls On Travel Writing From The Road
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 11 November 2009
Travel Blogger For Hire. That one is for Google so that some silly sod might employ me on future Travel Blogging Trips/Junkets when they do a keyword search! No seriously – I learnt a lot about Travel Writing/Blogging From the Road on my recent month long trip to Indonesia. I loved every single second of this trip. However, [...]Travel Blogger For Hire – Pitfalls On Travel Writing From The Road is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat
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Motorbike accident- You haven’t lived in Bali till you’ve had one!
Blog: Pommie Travels - 10 November 2009
So I finally gave in and got myself a motorbike…the car was getting too expensive and I wanted the challenge of learning to ride it. I started out in my friend’s parking lot and then gradually drove down the street. Every day I would venture a little further in Seminyak wearing my nice baby pink [...]
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Road Safety Campaign – The Best Advertisement Ever!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 5 November 2009
Most of us are familiar with the odd Road Safety Campaign that graces our newspapers and telvisions now and then. You know, the ones about slowing down so you can be there for your family at the end of the day, or possibly encouraging you to trade in your dodgy rustbucket in exchange for something more [...]Road Safety Campaign – The Best Advertisement Ever! is a post from: Funny Travel, Offbeat Travel, Weird Travel - The Travel Tart
