One month later...

This is some of the damage done by the tsunami, only 50 steps from where we stayed.

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August 19th 2006
Ok well I made it to Jakarta, all the way across Java without getting myself killed! However when we were in Pangandaran, where a month ago they had that brutal tsunami, there was an earthquake. Nothing too major, a 5.1 on the richter scale. I was sitting on our balcony at around 10pm drinking tea and all the sudden it felt like someone had grabbed my chair and started shaking it. I knew what ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more

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