Our adventures continue as we take a 4 night 3 day boat ride from Lombok to Flores which is 500 kms away and it will be our furthest stop to the east of Indonesia. This is actually a ‘paid’ excursion which includes a visit to the Komodo national Park. We opted to use Wanua Adventure and …
Well what a change of scenery, after arriving in Port Bangsal we jumped into a taxi (costing IDR 150,000 (NZ$ 16)) and drove the 24 kms to Mataram. Our time this week has been split into two separate areas, Mataram and Telebatu. We stayed at the Dewi Sri Guest House for 5 days, and they …
So we caught the 1500 (3.00 pm) public boat (costing IDR 40,000 (NZD 4.10)) each from Gili Air, and took the 10 minute ride across to our new base in Gili Meno. It’s definitely a ‘chillax’ island, and we chose a ‘beach front’ bungalow (Sunset Beach Bungalows), which meant we basically overlooked the sea. The …
So, with our bags packed we headed down to Jungat Bado Port on Nusa Lembongan to catch the Samayaone Fast Boat. The 2 1/2 half hour ferry (costing IDR 275,000 (NZ$ 28)) each, was actually a two step process with the boat stopping in Penida Island where all passengers and luggage was moved to another …
So we to left New Zealand, and following an 8 hour flight we arrived at Denpesar Airport (I Gusti Internasional Ara Uaal Ngurah Rai). Alan managed to get a free upgrade to Premium Economy and luckily Helena was close by and only sat only 2 rows behind, but she was located in Economy Disembarking the …
For those people following us, you know that we sometimes have a ‘little kiwi’ joining us – this time you will also read/see in photos a ‘big kiwi’, who is Bex’s partner (Simon). For those who are unaware, New Caledonia is one of the closest pacific islands from New Zealand – it’s just a 2.5 …
We left our accommodation at the Kiwi Backpackers in Pokhara at 0615 and walked the 1 kilometre to the Tourist Bus Park, keeping an eye on our final view of the ‘awesome’ Himalayas. The ‘Tourist Bus’ to Sauraha, cost us 800 Rupees (NZ$14) each, as travelling by local bus would have meant too many changes. …
To leave Tansen we walked down to the local bus park to continue our journey south to the small town of Lumbini, which is near the border with India. To achieve this feat we took three local buses – Tansen to Butwal covered 42 kilometres (cost 150 Rupees each (NZ$2.00)), Butwal to Bhairahawa covered 20 …
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So we left our main bag, ate breakfast and headed off to Prithvi Rajmarga Bus Park in Pokhara to buy our ticket and catch the ‘local’ bus (costing 550 Rupees each (NZ$8)) to Tansen. This town is a traditional Nepalese town, located 119 kilometres south of Pokhara at an altitude of 1,372 meters.. It is …
So after a few days in Kathmandu recovering from our Everest Base Camp (EBC) hike we left Kathmandu and headed across to central/western Nepal. We started our journey on a tourist bus to cover the 136 kms, which took us 7 hours (and cost us 1,300 Nepalese Rupees each (NZD17.30)) – the roads met our …
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