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September 4th, 2011 | Asia

Back to Bali…!!

Asia, and Bali in particular, just wouldn’t let go of me…!!

Close to the airport, stands my favourite statue in all of Bali…

Traffic and huge memorials confirmed I was back on the busy streets of Denpasar…

My good friend and taxi driver, Kardi, greeted me with a huge […]

August 27th, 2011 | Asia

Kupang to Dili and Country No: 80 on my World Tour…!!

Buzzing through the almost deserted streets of Kupang, I couldn’t help but notice that the parts of the town I could see, were clean and well maintained… This was a far cry from those of Sumbawa and Flores that I had been riding through recently…

Early morning on the outskirts of Kupang, and […]

August 27th, 2011 | Asia

Ferry to Kupang…

The last part of my ride through Asia began with a sixteen hour ferry trip from Larantuka on Flores Island, to Kupang in West Timor…

I was actually on the ferry for a total of twenty hours, as despite boarding at 10.00am, the vessel only left the harbour at 2.00pm… Those four hours alone were […]

August 25th, 2011 | Asia

Larantuka at Last…

Apart from snow, I had now dealt with every riding condition that Flores had to throw at me…!!

Shorty after bidding Cornelius goodbye, a light rain began falling, making the going on the road to Maumere a little tricky… The water brought residues of oil and diesel to the surface, and feeling my […]

August 24th, 2011 | Asia

Watuneso Village Visit…

Cornelius, the guy I had met on the ferry from Sumbawa to Flores, was just about the only Indonesian on board who spoke any English, and we had spent a good deal of our time together discussing both my journey, and his life in Indonesia.

He lived in the village of Watuneso, about 90 km […]

August 23rd, 2011 | Asia

Kelimutu Volcano….

I awoke from the sleep of the dead with sunlight streaming through the window of my room at the Safari Hotel… I had slept for nine hours straight, something I had not had the luxury of for what felt like a very long time…

I think my body and brain had colluded sometime during the […]