Sengiggi at dusk

Lombok, Bali, and the Gili Islands

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March 4th 2011
The day after arriving in Mataram I left for Singiggi. This is a tourist town I was hoping to avoid but there was nowhere in Mataram to rent bikes and I didn’t feel like sitting on another bus to go to this little village in the foothills of Gunung Rinjani. Sengiggis beaches are really talked up in the lonely planet so it was abit of a disappointment. The sand is more black than white, they are ... read more

Asia » Indonesia

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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