Hey this is Chris, I'm traveling this week and so there won't be a new episode of Amateur Traveler,

but I would like to bring you one of these episodes from our archives, which I think you will enjoy.

I got my bags packed on a roll. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go. Looking real good in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 589. Today the amateur traveler talks about

volcanoes and beaches, gillies and waterfalls, surfing and secret islands as we go to Lombach in Indonesia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler I I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Lombok. I'd like to welcome back to the show Jason Andrew Jenkins from an epic education.com travel blogger and podcaster.

I say welcome back to the show because he was our guest way back not all that long ago on episode 550 talking about Tokyo

Jason welcome back to the show. Pleasure to be here again. Thanks Chris.

And in between time we've met in person in Sam Miguel De Ieande when we just both happen to be there at the same time and had a chance to sit down together and just shoot the breeze with a couple of the travel bloggers and podcasters which is always great fun but we're not talking about either

for those places today where are we talking about today we're going to talk about

Lombok the island of Lombok in Indonesia okay and let's put it on a map first of all.

I'm not sure that everybody can find Indonesia on a map, but we're in the Western Pacific.

That's right.

In between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

But where is the island of Lumbach?

Usually the way I tell people to locate Lumbach is most people have heard of Bali,

and Bali is the island directly east of Bali in the sort of archipelago of Indonesia, which is more or less near the center of the Indonesian islands, and that's where it is right next to Bali.

Okay and right next to Bali and then also not that far from the island that Jakarta is on and

the name of that island escapes me for the moment.

Uh, Java.

Java.

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