Doing the trip in the reverse direction, x wrote: "Back in London we had met up before we had left to go through kit. We had got rid of the unnecessary pieces, trimmed down on any doubled up kit where possible, and already between us had thrown out equipment, that ideally we would like to have taken if it hadn’t been for restrictions on weight and space. The final two days before we left we went through the whole process again and again, convinced our bags were shrinking as we struggled to fit all of our ‘necessary’ and ‘pertinent’ kit into them. We threw away even more but as we left our bag weighed a straining 42kg..."

Stay at the Vanimo Surf Lodge.

Funday Juice wrote: "The village consists of many huts made of wood with thatched rooves, which are kept on neat dirt blocks constantly groomed and raked by the women of the village. Most of the huts are raised on stilts over one metre off the ground for protection from tidal waves. They also include neat fencing and landscaping features which were surprisingly well kept. There were gardens that had been created in truck tyres that seemed extremely civilized in a tribal setting. As there is no power in the villages, the huts use generators for the little power they use. Our hut had a grill over an open firs and an oven that consisted of an oil drum sitting above a fire place for cooking facilities..."

At the Indonesian border, get a B211 type visa, which allows you to stay up to 6 months in Indonesia!