watu girl

to a place time has forgotten

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February 2nd 2007
With my new founds partners in crime (Jur and Andy) we continued east through Flores. The roads in Flores are something else. They are not too bumpy, but they are very, very, curvy. It's not a drive you can sleep on. We were told one statistic that for a 400km distance that the road is over 700km long. That's a lot of winds and bends. Luckily for our Ruteng to Bajawa route we were able to charter ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Flores

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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