Dec. 18th, 2017 Today we were bidding farewell to Pattaya and heading to Bangkok for a couple of nights (or so we thought…). We found out the best way to get to Bangkok is the North Bus Station that has continuous air-conditioned buses going directly to Bangkok. We headed there but first we needed to… Read More Bangkok 2017
Happy new year to all of you lovely people!! I haven’t wrote for a long time because during the day we adventure and in the night I’ve been into this amazing book “I am Pilgrim”. It’s a must read!! So any way immmmmm back!!! Chiang Mai is one of my favorite places in Thailand. It’s… Read More Happy New Year!
Dec. 12th, 2017 We were supposed to arrive in Jakarta at around 8:00 pm, but it ended up being around 9:30 pm due to a flight delay out of Yogyakarta. The taxi ride to The Packer Lodge Hostel cost us 200,000 IDR (around $15 USD), which took about an hour. We walked up three flights… Read More Jakarta
Dec. 6th, 2017 We arrived in Yogyakarta a bit later than expected because our flight from Banywangi was delayed by some serious weather. However, we did make it and as soon as we got out of the airport we got in a taxi headed to Venezia Garden Hostel. When we arrived we were shown to… Read More Yogyakarta
If you are wondering how we got here, please see previous post about Nusa Lembongan, Ceningan, and Penida. Dec. 4th, 2017 I didn’t really know what to expect when we got to the Ubung Bus Terminal, but from what I had read online about bussing it from Bali to Java it sounded pretty simple. Fortunately… Read More Bali to Java and Ijen
Dec. 1st, 2017 After the excitement of the last 2 weeks on the Bali Intro Tour, coupled with the fact we were still suffering from what we were hoping was just Bali Belly, we were feeling pretty drained. However, we were soldiering on determined to make the most of our time in our present location,… Read More Nusa Lembongan, Ceningan, and Penida
Day 6 Today was another big travel day, making our way across the top of Bali to the east coast where we were catching a ferry to the island Gili Trawangan. The Gili Islands are comprised of 3 islands: Gili T, Gili Meno, and Gili Air. We were told Gili T is the busiest, Air… Read More Bali Intro Tour: Days 6 – 12
Day 1 On Nov. 19th whilst lounging around the pool late morning, we met some other people who would be on the tour with us. In the evening we met everyone at the hotel for a brief chat with the tour leader Alissa before going out for a meal together at a nearby restaurant. It was… Read More Bali Intro Tour: Days 1 – 5
We left Cebu City in the wee hours of the morning on November 17th and – after a short layover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – arrived in Denpasar, Bali at around 3:30pm the same day. When we finally emerged from the baggage area after a lengthy wait, the leader for our upcoming Bali Intro tour we… Read More Kuta, Bali Pre-tour
Our trip to Cebu City took about 5 hours total by ferry and bus. When we arrived at the Sibulan Ferry Terminal it was super easy, as we just walked in and bought our tickets for the fast ferry to Liloan-Santander as well as reserved our seats on the bus to Cebu City all in… Read More Cebu City