Jambi

Our highlight of the day today was traversing The Equator. David checked the GPS on his phone and (despite allowing for error) amusingly it appeared to be a good few metres further along the road – a banana tree marks the spot, but sadly there were none for the picking – next time you're travelling through Indonesia you can confirm it for yourself and maybe grab yourself one. We finally arrive at our hotel at around 9pm – 15 hours after having got on the coach in the morning. Some of these days in Indonesia are going to seriously numb on the bum and as you might anticipate tempers are fragile upon arrival. This is not helped by the fact that we had been promised upon our arrival in Indonesia by the local guide that tonights hotel was a 5 star. The hotel complex was large, but we were not staying in the main part and clearly by the state of our room not in 5 star accommodation – in fact our hotel the night before seemed to be on a par. It obviously begged the question for most on the trip as to why to raise peoples expectations unnecessarily to say the hotel was going to be 5 star when immediately people think of that standard in their respective home countries – a tip for Oz Bus and the local operators in the future to not mention such a thing at all. Don't get us wrong, the hotel was fine, JUST NOT 5 STAR, OK! The mice or rats that were running around in the ceilings above some peoples rooms, including our own however, maybe thought they were onto something along the lines of 5 star though?