Gunung Padang, Java, Indonesia

A monolithic site in Indonesia which is surrounded by mystery!

No one knows when this site was built, or for what purpose. There is lots of theories, with locals and experts differing opinions. It was amazing to see though, and as its not on the tourist trail we only saw 4 other people visiting (although somehow one man was from Manchester, what are the chances!).

There was a viewing point further back which had the best view of rice terraces we've seen so far, and it felt the most remote we've been in a while as we couldn't see anyone else there!

We did have to save Luke from a couple of ticks though, and avoid some rather large spiderwebs with angry looking spiders in them to get to and from the look out point. Not to mention the huge hornets that were happily flying around.

It was surreal to be stood on the side of a mountain, in remote Indonesian Java, on a site that many have had human construction on thousands of years ago, with barely any tourists around.Read more