After more than two years on the road, we are preparing for the south-east-asien leg of our around the world motorcycle trip.

Mid October we´ll ship our bikes from Darwin (Australia) to Dili (Timor Leste).

I ask your advice regarding the route through Indonesia and Malaysia.
We consider two ways.
I roughly indicated them on the following (attached at the end of the post). They just shall show you, which island we consider to include. They don´t show the exact route.

red route: East Timor (Timor Leste) – West Timor (Indonesia) – Flores (Indonesia) - Sulawesi (Indonesia) – Borneo (Indonesien/Malaysia/Brunai) – West Malaysia – Thailand...

blue route: East Timor (Timor Leste) – West Timor (Indonesia) – Flores (Indonesia) – Lombok (Indonesia) Java (Indonesia) – Sumatra (Indonesia) – West Malaysia – Thailand...

From my understanding the red route is the more commen for motorcycle travellers and might be easier in regards of ferries. But the red route looks more interesting to me.

There are three aspects for comparing those routes:

1. ferries
2. weather/climate
3. interesting things / good motorcycle riding

Which route would you recommend in regard of those three aspects?

How about ferries for the blue route? I found the pelni internetpage for ferrys in Indonesia, but it´s far from beeing perfect. Where can I find out, which ferries take motorcycles on board?

Where can I get information for a ferry from
a) Borneo (MAL) to West-Malaysia
b) Sumatra to West-Malaysia?

How about the climate?
I allready did some research, but I would like to hear your personal opinine/experience.
Our travel time is: As I said, we´ll arrive in East Timor around mid October. Might be end of October or early November, until we get to Flores. We plan two to three month for Indonesia and Malaysia, which means we are there in November, December and maybe January.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Panny

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