Once we had found a hotel in Senggigi we went for a walk along the beach. Lonely planet explains that the beaches here are the best any traveller will find so when we walked along the muddy looking sand we were a bit disappointed. The beach wasn't very clean and wasn't somewhere we would want to sun bathe. This is not the first time that the Lonely Planet books have painted a perfect picture of a dump. We had a look round the rest of the town and found somewher...

After two days of extensive travel we finally arrive in Kuta, Lombok, Indonesia. It was a rough journey that included a couple of boats, a few planes, and car journeys. We arrived late in the evening so we had to wait until the next day to discover what Indonesia is about. The next day after a disappointing breakfast we headed out. First impressions where that it reminded us a lot of India. It was really under developed, people living in wooden shacks, food mar...