Headed to Sumatra?

Or at least we thought we were. It turns out that you cannot take a ferry from Lumut, Malaysia to Belawan, Indonesia anymore. We had read from a couple of news articles that a new route with 2 brand new ferries opened up in 2007 but they have already been discontinued. We should have known something was up when the owner of the hostel in KL looked at us funny when we said we would leave from Lumut.

Not to worry though. We had a nice dinner on the water in Lumut and managed to rebook a new night bus ticket to Georgetown, Malaysia where we will take a ferry (which we know exists) to Sumatra.

We will be going to Lake Toba for a couple of nights, Berastagi to hike a volcano and then head over to Bukit Lawang to hang out with some orangutans. We should be staying in Sumatra from about 10 to 14 days. We decided against flying this time so we could be more flexible with dates. All is well from on the road and we were both really surprised to find wifi in Lumut!


(We updated the banners so keep hitting F5 to see a new picture; theres 14 now!)

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No, We Didn't Get Lost in the Islands...

We are alive and well. It's been a while since we've gotten around to updating the site. In our defense we didn't want to log into our gmail accounts from any of the internet cafes in Sulawesi because they had to many viruses.

We are back in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and now have fast wifi again. We have been busy editing and uploading pictures from Sulawesi and they are now online at http://picasaweb.google.com/lwptb54 . We had an amazing time in Sulawesi, Indonesia and quickly fell in love with the country and people. We are planning on heading back to Indonesia, which is a very, very large country, on Wednesday. This time however we are headed to Sumatra, west of Peninsular Malaysia.

We will be adding videos and blog entries to the main page before we head out again. Also, in order to ensure that the blog never sits idle for as long as it did, we have purchased a USB thumb drive and installed a portable browser so we can log into our email accounts from on the road.

Stay tuned...and keep up the comments, we love checking them!

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