Goodbye Bali

For our last days in beloved Bali we headed back to Kuta for a final night out in Sky Garden, HOWEVER, this was not until after our travelling day back from the Gili's of EIGHT HOURS, we decided to save about 3 pounds each and take the public bus... huge mistake, we ended up surrounded by buskers, moving sweet shops, pot noodle counters and endless sales pitches, hilarious to say the least! But if you have the option; take the fast boat, it cuts 7 hours off your journey!

Of course we headed back to Sky Garden for our final night out; we simply cannot get over FREE DRINKS for two hours....... its brilliant.

After a month of travelling Bali, we still only managed to see about 2 thirds, we weren't able to squeeze in the entire North-West of the island, surely an excuse to head back with more friends in tow?

Goodbye Bali, we love you

Next stop Malaysia....

The Yoga Barn (Ubud)

After a short but sleepy boat ride on the public boat with the locals and a melon, we jumped on the bus to Ubud! Probably the only place that we had any idea what we wanted to do; rafting, visit temples and the rice paddies. That was until... we found the wonderful Yoga Barn.

'A little piece of tranquillity n the heart of Ubud'

Immediately we fell in love with the jungly location and never ending list of classes on offer; Yin Yang, Hatha, Sound healing, Esctatic dance, take your pick.

We decided on an unlimited pass for seven days, creating our own little yoga retreat.

We ended up going to an average of 3 classes a day, normally including at least one Yoga and one meditation class. Aside from our beloved sound healing with White Star and Esctatic dance, a few of our favourite classes were Vinyasa Flow (with Carlos; yoga to a ukele, why not?), Crystal Bowl Mediation and Sunday Dance.... a long explanation of each will be boring unless you are here, so maybe start saving and head over to Bali and the Yoga Barn?

ALSO even if you don't like yoga... the FOOD was the best we've had on our trip so far. All organic, eco friendly and vegetarian... The Little K has managed to create a recipe for the perfect Dhal and Chapati, or feta omelette wrap, simply amazing.

Slack lining at the YB

BIG LOVE FROM BAAAAAAAALI, heading to the gilis tomorrow xxxxx

Kuta + Uluwatu (Bali) PARDY

We have arrived in Bali! (well we have been here for nearly two weeks, but the internet is about as slow as everything else on Bali time so we have been struggling to update)

On our first night in Kuta, it was safe to say that we were terrified... we arrived in the dark, got completely ripped off for a taxi (30 dollars when it should have been 6, but he followed us around and into the toilet so what could we do), and then locked ourselves away into a crepe shop of all places, to hide forever.

HOWEVER, after a brave walk down a mysterious dark alley, we arrived in the perfectly fine, and equally hilarious Poppies Lane 2. We wandered outside and realised that Kuta was the Aiya Napa of Bali, with Bounty and Skygarden night clubs handing out free drinks to 'international guests' - free drinks for being on holiday? safe to say we got carried away!

The following night we were ready.... 9pm at Sky Garden for drinks and THE BEST dance in Sky Dome with the locals. We stayed at Gora Beach Inn... after you get over the scary exterior of a dingy car park, the inside is really sweet, for less then 5$ a night we had a room overlooking the pool and banana jaffles for breakfast! Pretty perfect as an escape from the streets of  'Transport!! Transport!!' and 'Mushrooms???'

After we had enjoyed the nightlife in Kuta, as well as hiring surfboards for just one day, we quickly plotted our escape to nicer surroundings; Uluwatu. We stayed near Padang Padang beach, which is beautiful! White sand, blue sea and the rest... though i'm pretty sure we spotted a few comodo dragons!!!!!!!! As we arrived on a Sunday we headed to the Single Fin Party at Uluwatu beach; there was an amazing local band and every traveler was keen to drukenly chat to you about Bali and their love for surfing.

We spent our days either chilling on the beach with a Nasi Goreng (Pot noodle with an egg on the top) or at the Temple, with the monkeys............ THAT ATTACKED US! Absolutely terrifying; the monkeys jumped out the trees, bared their fangs at us and started climbing up Jodie skirt.... our screaming did NOT help but was rather entertaining for the locals.... "You no like monkey???"

^^(After being asked SO many times for photos with various foreign people because we are English, we have started asking for photos back, with hilarious results hahahaha)

In Uluwatu, we spent our mornings taking part in the yoga classes at Mu, a hotel near where we were staying. It was SO NICE! The teacher was really cool, tanned, told us we were beautiful in our sweatiest times and loved everything about Bali - we would definitely recommended this class! It was quite pricey at 100,0000 for an hour but definitely worth the money, we spent the whole day feeling relaxed and stretchy.

One day after class we befriended a 60 year old french man (why are our mates always about a thousand years old) and we gave both of us a lift home on his moped whilst telling us which surf competition he was organizing that day.... hilarious.

Happy Travels xxx

Past Travels: South Africa

Firstly, as of today it is officially 1 week until we set off on our travels!!!!!! (que enthusiastic readers)

Many are surprised at our choice of Kenya as our first stop, mainly as it's not your classic aus/thailand gap year.  I think the main reason for this decision and our love of Africa is due to our amazing little taster of South Africa two Summer's ago. Walking into my bedroom, you will see countless African paintings and masks and if you catch Megan stripping off you'll see three elephants tattooed onto her rib. YES WE CANNOT WAIT TO RETURN!!!!!

On the way to Kruger Park, we encountered a coach reversing backwards along a motorway and ending up in a ditch - resulting in a group of girls playing cards outside a petrol station for around 10 hours and a very bumpy journey in the back of a truck in the pitch black!

We aided Operation Wallacea with their conservation research by catching dung beetles, waking up at the crack of dawn to listen for bird calls and listened to THE most boring woman on the earth talk about insect preservation techniques for hours on end! We also had a really sweet night of star-gazing, midnight game drives and bush walks where we most definitely spotted a cheetah's tail (maybe, we think!)

We ate waaaaayyyy to many treats from the tuck shop (mostly because ELM wanted to flirt with Clive), drooled over the rangers QUOTE: "don't worry...I've used this rifle before ladies" and darted for the toilets past our bedtime hoping not to run into any hygenas on the way.

After 2 weeks here, we headed through Swaziland and back into South Africa to Sodwana Bay - this time to drool over the dive-masters. We accomplished our fear and grew to love diving, after a very stormy first dive where we lost eachother in the massive waves and panicked as we began to think the welsh school pupils were plotting against and switching off our oxygen tanks - things get a little crazy under the pressure of an entire african ocean.

Outdoors showers, beach-side markets and African singers turning up at our braai. Yes, we were now officially in love with Africa.

ello mate

BUGZ

Mates for once

Ready for some elephants

MOOOOOOO

Stole our sandwiches

BUG QUEEN

Buck-shit-spit, actually putting shit in our mouths and seeing who could spit it furthest

Fighting as usual

Fresh from a dive.

The best.

Peace out xxxx

Our starting point: Jersey

Jersey.
Our hometown and pretty great starting point that is.
After our final summer holidays of kidding around before far too many of our friends left for university, we've been left looking back on our incredible summer with nostalgia as we dive into 9-5. 

The beaches, the parties, the nights when you and ten friends are naked in the pool as the police arrive.  True, the nightlife is shit but there's lots of ways to make your own fun when you've got great company and lots of water (and vodka).  With countless beaches, you're never at a loss of things to do as even when the weather isn't great, rock-jumping and surfing with a hot chocolate afterwards are always less than nine miles away!

Pass the Parcel and a passed-out member of the party at Jodie's 18th.

Appreciating the Jersey waters.

 Prior to being chased around the house naked by a policeman getting told "there's nothing special between your legs".

Charity sky-dive for Hope for John managing to raise £1,200 between three of us.

Our Favourite place to spend time - St. Ouen's Bay

Peace and Love,

Jodie and Megan.