Hi everyone. Sorry we haven't written in a while, it's been nearly 3 months since the last blog and this is most likely the penultimate( for this trip anyway). We have been all over the place and seen some amazing things, there is just too much to write about. In this blog we will give you an overview of where we have been and as usual loads of pictures. So enjoy... From Sumatra we flew to Cambodia and fistly taken by surprize by all the tourists in Phnom Pehn we were deffinately back on the tourist trail. A lot of the [View Full Entry]

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After a quick visa run through Malaysia we entered Sumatra for our final 2 month Indonesian stint. The twisty roads and crazy driving on the way to Meulaboh made me see my chicken curry again, the driving here is just mental. 15 hrs later we arrived at Gampong Chot and the Yasyan Bumi Sehat clinic, where we volunteered for the next 3 weeks. info at www.bumisehatbali.org Meluboh was ground zero for the Tsunami, the whole area was flattened and an estimated 120,000 people lost their lives. The clinic is a maternity clinic run by an Indonesian NGO with an Australian midwife [View Full Entry]

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After finding there were no boats to Sulawesi for 1 month Great !! We diverted our trip to Kalimantan. We flew to the oil town of Balikpapan and jumped staright on a bus to Benjamasin(Welcome back to the world of bumpy busses). Benjamasin is the Venice of Kalimantan with impressive floating food markets and floating houses, we did a couple of boat tours here which were great such a different way of life on the waters edge (Pretty smelly too!!) We headed next into the country side and the Loksado hills to visit tribal villages and do a bit of [View Full Entry]

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Hi folks!!! Got back out of Bali pretty quick and headed for Mataram in Lombok to start our 4 day boat trip to Kimodo and Rinca. Weren't too sure what to expect but the agent had assured us that there would be a proper toilet... well at least more than leaning over the edge of a boat!!Living was pretty basic, the upper deck was the communal bedroom and the sea was the bathroom. The crew and 12 other passenger were a really good bunch of folk, so we had a great laugh along the way. We motored out from a [View Full Entry]

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Thanks for the messages everyone. Keep writing as its great to hear from you. MMM the rain followed us from Nz but at least here the downpours are warm. After a couple of nights in our air con room in the beach resort of Sanur we headed for the cultural centre of Bali UbuD. This bustling market town heaved with all kind of shops and spas to take our money. We fell luck with our home stay hostel, as the owner Madi was getting married, being the natural blaggers that we are ( or was it the Madi's generosity) we [View Full Entry]

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This blog was lost when the site crashed. Heres the photos anyways........................................ [View Full Entry]

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We spent the end of October hitching around the Jesuit mission circuit in the santa Cruz area of Bolivia. This involved many long and dusty journeys on the back of cattle trucks, meeting lots of friendly locals and visiting small towns and villages with fascinating and often tragic histories. we passed briefly through Brasil, going on a 5 day wildlife tour into the Pantanal. I think we had been largely spoilt at Ambue Ari and so couldnt really get all that excited about seeing a few crocodiles and the odd red macaw in the distance. We did see plenty of Capybaras [View Full Entry]

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Our experiences of the park are quite different as we worked with separate animals, so heres mine first. See ya Pete Our idea of the park was that it was still being set up and that we would be based in the jungle building cages and helping out with animals where possible. On arrival the park was up and running though a little short on volunteers. Due to a lack of male volunteers at the park I was teamed up with Liu a Tiwanese man to work with Yaguaru a 120 kilo 4yr old male jaguar who didnt like women. After [View Full Entry]

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After spending a couple of days in Cochabamba wandering around its never ending market (2km square of stalls) that sold everything from puppies to microwaves everything that is apart from what we were looking for. We headed off down hill towards the Foundation Angeles of Hope, in Villa Tunari, where we spent a month doing some voluntary work. Villa Tunari lies just beyond the last wrinkle of the Andes and inbetween two major rivers that run toward the amazon basin. As we found on our first night of arrival this location makes some monstrous thunder and rain storms as the [View Full Entry]

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After a freezing train ride we pulled into Uyuni Station at 2am, we were met by a barrage of hostel touts who wanted to charge silly money for rooms. Allthough it was about minus 10 we opted to sleep in the station with the locals, tight us Yorkshire folk!! A day was spent in the town arranging our 3 day tour and a slightly better nights sleep was had in our unheated hostel, mainly due to the mountain of blankets. We set off at 7.30 am with 5 Irish folk we met the day before. Our Charriot was a 1980s Toyota [View Full Entry]

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