Big shout out to Catarina for doing these grueling long journeys and keeping me motivated to film

The random music on these recent journeys has been so hilarious 😂 you’ve got more patience than I would have!

Usually i dont like Couple-Vloggers. But you and the pirate-style girl from Portugal are just fine.

Backpacker Ben is hands down the most underrated KZfaqr out there! His content is a hidden gem - not only is he incredibly informative about travel, but his humor adds a unique and entertaining touch to every video. Watching him feels like exploring the world with a friend who knows all the best tips and tricks. Mark my words, Backpacker Ben, you've got the potential to be the next big travel blogger sensation. Keep doing what you're doing, and I'm sure the world will catch on to your amazing content soon

Oh my gosh, it turns out that the bed ticket requires you to sleep with someone else, so I might just choose an ordinary economy seat! It's a pity that you didn't bring enough food, but the scenery on the sea is beautiful and this is a very special experience! You are probably the most unlucky and complaining KZfaqr to me, but I think you are actually very cute! Thanks for sharing your Sleeper Ferry trip, have a nice trip and take care! 👍🥰🙏

We appreciate your suffering. Much more interesting than five star resorts we’ve all seen before

Wow, never seen Catarina look so stressed before (at the beginning of the video). At the very least she adds an extra dimension to your experiences (and videos) so you need to look after her regardless of how you are feeling. Another great video and a brilliantly unorthodox take on an Englishman in Indonesia.

Great content Ben and Catarina is a brilliant travel partner.

excellent video thx Ben and Cat for travelling the places less travelled a really interesting journey this island hopping will be a great series waiting for the next up load :D ...... the people seem really good and friendly

Mr Bald would call that waiting room “Soviet Gopnik waiting room”

That moment when you walk around the corner and see the bed layout 😂😂😂😂 and that bad music follows you like a bad smell!! Your faces say it all, you are so funny 🤣 …. you guys rock!!! Seriously love the two of you doing adventures together…. Excellent adventure again and beautiful volcano ❤🎉😊👍🏻

Videos like this are inspiring me to travel and see places. Thank you Ben and Cath for taking us along.

Glad to see you got to see some volcanoes after all, those are quite something, bigger and better than the one at Rabaul - the trip to see the Rabaul one is not quite so arduous, but way more expensive. The boy did good. We all appreciate you toughing it for content Ben, and Cat is genuinely lovely - still looked fab after that long ferry ride. ❤

always a pleasure watching you!! you deserve soooo much much more followers!! (met you in ethiopia few yrs ago, now in london) take good care! K.

ben mate,you two make a great team and the more of Cat i see the more fond of her i get.what a positive adventurous spirit she has!

What a series Ben spending 16 hours on a ferry with Cat I think everyone wants the next video to be your greatest adventure of all time were you ask Cat to marry you. What great chemistry you both have you truly make a nice couple. You owe her a better VIP experience than a gym smelling room.

Ben, I've always enjoyed your videos, but you and Cat together are a great combo. You keep each other motivated and smiling, I love it. This video is amazing. Also, what is it with this part of the world and mind-bu*geringly loud music everywhere you go? haha

Great stuff. You both deserve medals - if only for putting up with that music on the ferry.

Absolute legend! Glad to see the two of you braving the high seas together!

Great video! Really enjoyed it. You two are real troopers. Bang on! Richard in Reno

Maximum respect to you and Cat enduring these 16 hour journeys for our entertainment - loving all your recent videos Ben, top drawer (or top bunk as it were)😂. Excited to see more BackpackerBen adventures. Quality.

Watching these videos of yours really makes me miss my travels in SE Asia. I've been fortunate enough to spend a total of 8 weeks in that part of the world over the last several years, but I would love to be able to spend so much more time over there.

you guys rock the world 🤘 I prefer to follow you from episode to episode... keep it up

Backpacker Ben you my man are an absolute legend. Cheers to you and Catarina with infinite love from the USA, ya'll have to make a USA trip. Motivating me to travel more this year for sure!

Loving this series with you and Cat. Her laugh at the end when you teased a 14 hour bus ride the day after. She can’t wait! Brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic work and content again Ben and Kat from J&J Cheshire x

Awesome Vlog Ben and Kat, Ben mate she is a keeper for sure, not many girls would do that and still smile, hope you get to do plenty more together, safe travels Bro : @ )

Nice videos, Ben and Kate!

You were really getting into the music playing on the ferry! After so long, I saw your foot getting with it. I did think we were going to read about you falling into the volcano when you slipped there. I am with you, I think if you hit that water it's over. Enjoy your videos, thanks for taking us with you! That was some VIP room...

Loving these recent vids, exploring islands I’ve never even heard of. Cat is a saint

I took that ferry from Ende to Kupang in 2016 - it looks like its a different ship to the one I was on, sleeping quarters were grimmer with rows and rows of grotty beds that were in worse shape than the ones you filmed. Lots of mice scurrying around and other creepy crawlies - I was offered a cabin being the only foreigner but as it was a day boat, managed quite a good sleep up on deck in a quiet corner. Indonesian ferries when I was last there were not the greatest.

You two are so courageous and adventurous. I hope to someday have a 10th of what you have!😊

Great video as always mate

Ben, you and Cat are awesome together. Take good care of the beautiful little bird mate!

Brave new world, stay safe n keep going. Congrats to both off you.

amazing video!! thank you for posting

What lovely music you two were blessed with on this epic journey!

Good video Ben and Cat! Stay safe.

You should visit the Toba caldera in Sumatra, it's the remnants of a supervolcano, think Yellowstone, that nearly wiped out humanity 74000 years ago, only a few thousand humans survived the eruption. Mount Toba is dormant today but not extinct, the magma chamber under it is still active, its next eruption is estimated to occur in roughly 600000 years from now so we've got time. For now, the massive caldera has become a lovely lake with an island in the middle. I was there in 2015 and it's quite a beautiful place considering that it's a giant volcano that could destroy all life on Earth, but then Yellowstone is also a pretty place.

I love your travels Ben really interesting

More adventures with Ben and Catarina.

Nice video,, I expect to watch some exploration in Kupang city and sadly doesn't find it in this episode,, hope you can do it for Ende

I'm new subscribers for this channel. I'm enjoying your content ben😆👏

Stellar performance Ben And Kat!

The music cracked me right up! Good work

Good on you two for another great vlog Benjamin,but I can't imagine you being stuck on a cruise ship for weeks on end, especially if Mr Bald is in the next cabin🤓🤓

Yo Ben I don’t know where you found cat but she is epic! Gotta love indo. It’s so twisted but but epic all the same

Thank you for my amusement. Love you both together.

I just don’t know how you guys can travel like you do!! I think they call it “youth”!!! The lakes were AMAZING 🤩 🎉 THANK YOU!!!!❤️👌🏼🥰😅

i can feel your sanity is gone, bit by bit from your body when that song banging non stop bothering you when youre trying to sleep, youre face is priceless ben 😂

Hey Ben, good stuff. We are fellow travellers and watch your videos. See ya out there 🌎

Not everyone could do this, I certainly wouldn't, but it is good to watch so well done you two.

Another great watch, you n Cat make a good team.

Really loved then video man! Too late now - but here’s something that could have solved your food problem on the ship. Buy some bottled water and ask them to microwave the noodles using that water 😂

These videos have brought me very much joy when all else just feels awful. Thanks man.

What a journy you and Kat are on great content Ben ❤

Love the adventures with Catarina ❤

You 2 are a great team ❤

When the ocean is getting more and more tempting to take an everlasting dive 😅. Good heavens what lovely tunes!

Sailing on the slowest sleeper ferry? Well, it's like a bedtime story that never ends! You board as you would tuck yourself into bed, and by the time you wake up, you're still in the chapter where the ship just got out of the harbor! Kidding aside, it seems like pretty unique and nice experience. I've been in the cities of Indonesia for our TV show but not as far as this but this video totally inspires me to go further!

Great video ❤

That was a hell boat trip for you guys! No food, BO and stinky feet inside and more dodgy music to listen too. Then a tsunami warning..what doesn't kill you makes you stronger Ben? I'd sooner take my kayak across the sea!

Good job guys... What an adventure you two are having. Something to show your grandkids ;-)

Volcano would be awesome to see. Take a boat to Krakatoa and check that volcano out.

Exhausting Ben and Kat loving every video hope you got a good sleep and a meal subscriber Australia ❤

First time I have ever seen a smudged lens in one of your videos ;) , pretty impressive hahaha great video you two

Awesome content mate :)

Great content 👍🏻.

My Heavens! Video game music again! For food you could have asked the guys selling the cup noodles to use the bottled water you purchased. Next look for some beef jerky to take with you, because the crisp and cookies will just make you more hungry.

The music you heard in the bus going to Kelimutu is folk music from west sumatra which is very far awayy It's so random hearing that in the eastern part of Indonesia, maybe the drivers or bus owner is frkm west sumatra

Hi Ben. All the best you two.

Amazing, I'm going to maumere soon!

Damn well done enduring that ferry, I would have picked the upper deck too with a crate of beer. 😂

I would do that trip, not so sure about the VIP experience, but it is definitely an experience. Crazy part is that is an island so do you have to do the same journey to move on?

Thanks for creating great content

I swear! If I had to listen to that music, I would have jumped over board.

Always fun mate , I enjoy your videos the most on you tube

Those beds look like hell. 100% the right call to go up on deck.

Dinamic duo never disappoints! 🤩

Epic ferry ride and the volcanoes were incredible.

Love your videos Bro

😂😂😂😂 made me laugh the music starting at 5:30. I know the feeling over there, completely unnecessary and doesn't even make sense haha

Good job Ben. Be safe in Indonesia, nice people, dangerous environment. Beware of those tsunamis.

Beautiful Kat!

Incredible video I admire your stamina congratulations regards Howard from Cyprus

Wonderful!

wow amazing journey and you together make it perfect :-)

The mental torture of it all really oozes through to the viewers. I feel like just going to bed and getting a good calm relaxing night of sleep right about now.

This is so entertaining!

That music on the ferry was funny but at the same time would have drove me crazy

took me some time to figure out why you were calling people cats😂.... Interesting experience, don't think I would do it myself, but... certainly some amazing morning views. I've once been on an active volcano with multicolored acid pools (albeit it was much less of a journey, only 6 or so hours by a local bus)... also was quite a story though... when I was there, the whole place (including the huge crater-side meditation Dzong and monastery dating back to the 11th century) was enveloped into a huge storm of mist, resulting from a mixture of unusually high geologic activity and the remnants of the previous nights typhoon... the earth and everything was trembling and hissing, and at times it was nearly impossible to see anything through the thick sheets of steam rain & geyser water trailing in the winds... then briefly the strange shaped rocks appeared, in overhanging ghostly, almost animate, shapes... having spent half a day I stopped to grab a brief rice ball in the only open café (it was 10 in the evening by then), before getting the night-bus back to civilization... next morning, I found out the volcano had erupted in the night (thankfully, it being well off-season, there were no casualties, but the campsite I had originally planned to stay the night at had weather cooperated, was totally destroyed)

Think I'll stick to my fast boat on Thursday cheers mate

Blimey! That music tho! :)

It’s starting to seem like your channel is turning into a crazy method of transport review channel Ben 😂

Great Journey, when you order Instant Noodle you can ask to take out the chili powder.

Wish your videos were longer than usual. Love to see your adventures and suffering

That music OMG drives to insanity :D

Bring earplugs when traveling on public transport in Indonesia, they LOVE blasting music there 🤣

Ben the temperature inside this apple turnover is over 1000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten bramley apple will squirt out. Could go your way, it could go mine. Either way, one of us is going down.

Corr i was actually feeling that music with the sun going down on the boat…