On the way to Rinjani

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I’m aware I’ve been terrible at posting on my FindPenguins up until now, but also I know a lot of people have been following this have been following Sophia’s travel journal, so I’ve been a bit useless about updating this, despite keeping up-to-date in my notebook. I’m trying to play a bit of a catch up now and will start from a more recent point then upload older entries when I have time.
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Our departure to Senaru, our base before the trek, was a little hectic as we still had to collect laundry, the bike battery went flat, so I had to get help kickstart it, and I had to get the taxi to turn around in the first couple of minutes to retrieve my hat, which I’d forgotten.

The travel to Senaru was also chaotic in typical Asian style: bouncing around in the back of a minivan through the jungle, then stopping off at the Bangsal port where we had to wait an hour for another car, even though there were no other passengers, just our very friendly driver Catun who engaged in enthusiastic conversation in his limited broken English.

We got there eventually, though, passing out to Little from early morning on the way, and after prepping a little bit, we went on a warmup hike to a couple of nearby waterfalls before it got dark which included a bit of barefoot, hiking, and wading through a river.Read more