Published: January 4th 2011January 4th 2011
Our first week in the Maluku region, near the city of Ambon. We had time to kill for 6 days before the boat left to the Banda Islands. Not a bad place with swimming and coral right outside of our guesthouse room so we could easily go snorkelling in the waters.
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We are off to Southeast Asia!! It is Svetla's first trip "East", actually west from Canada, and the third time for me. We plan to visit Hong Kong for 3 days, then Indonesia for about 7 weeks before Malaysia and Southern Thailand for the remaining couple of weeks. We are pretty excited (and nervous) but all in all it should be a great adventure and we expect to have fun exploring some exotic areas of this marvelous world.... full info
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Bemo ride to the city
bench seats in the back of a small pickup truck
Lunch
Ambonese lunch with our friends from the guesthouse (I think I got sick from this food).
Mosie Net
Sleeping beauty being protected from our MEC mosie net.
Maya and Svetla
A friendly local at her village in the mountains above Ambon.
Crashing waves
Outside our room on the beach near Ambon.
Port
Getting ready to take the government boat to the Banda Islands...pure chaos at the harbour.
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Mike
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Busy tourity area?
Yash, the place looks beautiful. Is it as peaceful as it looks? Are there many tourists in the area or do you pretty much have the beach to yourself?
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