One of my ultimate trip highlights was definitely seeing orangutans in Sumatra. Like many tourists who arrive at Medan airport, we skipped the city and went straight to the jungle in Bukit Lawang. We had booked a two-day jungle trek through our hotel, Ecolodge Bukit Lawang. The hotel itself was amazing enough – nestled between the […]
Month: April 2017
Monsters and Rice fields: two weeks in beautiful Bali
I was super excited about this leg of the trip as I was going to meet up with Bex, an old friend I hadn’t seen in toooo long! She’s been living in Melbourne for the last three years and apart from one evening two Christmases ago we haven’t seen each other, so I was so excited […]
Trees and temples: two weeks in Cambodia
We started off in Phnom Penh, which for one reason or another, didn’t go so great – I got ill several times, and we found the city in general to be pretty hard to walk around. Luckily we didn’t get robbed (which happens there frequently apparently, so I made sure we were holding onto […]
Koh Rong: An island with two sides
Having spent a lot of our trip so far in different cities in Asia, I was very excited to get in some decent beach-time in Cambodia before heading North to Angkor Wat, and I read that Koh Rong was the perfect place to do so. Somewhat of a backpackers paradise, Koh Rong is actually a […]
Hoi An
We spent one week in Hoi An and it was possibly our favourite place so far! We stayed on Cam Nam island at Village Love Homestay, which was the best room we’ve had so far and included breakfast and free bike rental (which was needed as we were a couple of kilometres out of the […]