Day 66 (Jambi)

We had a pretty long drive day planned for today, but since we were going to be crossing the Equator I reckoned regardless of how long it took, it was gonna be a good day. We set off early and expected to cross the equator somewhere around 9am. I expected a big line drawn on the ground to allow people to have their picture taken with one foot on either side, but alas that wasn't what we found. Don't get me wrong, what was there was cool, just not how I pictured it would be.

We pulled up and there was a big pillar Tugu Equator written on it in big gold letters so that's where we all got our photos taken. Phone reception was slightly better in the Northern Hemisphere, I know this because I called Conor to say hello from both hemispheres and got cut off when I stepped across the imaginary line! Cool to be able to say I've crossed the equator on dry land :)

After 20 minutes of photo action we were back on the road and on the way to Jambi for the night. The hotel there had a pretty large outdoor swimming pool that I took advantage of to get some movement in my limbs after all the sitting on the bus. It was pretty special to be swimming around under the stars and the partial moon on my first night in the Southern Hemisphere. Pretty weird that I'm on the other half of the world to all of you at home until November!