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Southern Thailand – beach days, the angst of travel planning and National Parks
Nov 13th – 18th It feels a bit precious to say we caught a plane in order to enjoy a beach for a day, and we didn’t exactly do that as possible beaches were on the, increasingly vague, travel route. The initial plan though was to skip over them to ensure we hit the less…
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The Meltingpot of Penang
November 9th to 13th From Medan it’s less than a one hour flight across the strait to Georgetown, (Penang), moving from Indonesia to Malaysia. In cultural terms, however, they seem to be a world apart. Penang is a cultural meltingpot – originally founded by the British, with major Chinese influences, dotted with Buddhist temples, churches…
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And now for something completely different : Bukit Lawang and the Jungle
November 6th – 9th Where to start? We arrive in Bukit Lawang, the entrance point for the jungle, AKA Gunung Leuser National park and our quest to see Orangutans, after an eventful 9-10 hour car journey from the peace of Lake Toba. We avoided the by now expected high speed collisions and overtaking incidents by…
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Tranquillity at Lake Toba
November 3rd to 6th Next stop: Lake Toba, a lake in the caldera of the largest volcano in the world, next predicted to cause a super eruption in 600,000 years’ time, give or take. Samosir is the island on the lake caused by the last super volcanic eruption, the global climate changing event of its…
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Yogyakarta – Cultural Soul of Java
Diary excerpts Friday October 27th to Thursday November 2nd Java wasn’t originally included in the rough guide of Grey and Gone travels but the promise of seeing a more Indonesian Indonesia, mystical temples, volcanoes and Java’s cultural heart tempted us more than the concern of Bintang being less available put us off. Car from Ubud…
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Ubud: Retail, Food, Art and more Bloody Monkeys
October 22nd – 27th It’s our last full day in Ubud before heading off to Java. It’s been a quiet few days, partially by design and partially due to circumstances – we’ve both been a bit under the weather, not unexpectedly given the sudden transition to South Eastern Asian temperatures, insects and (ahem) cuisine. It…
This is how it all started…
Grey and gone
Grey and gone
Tim and Nik
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