This monument in Bandar Lampung commemorates the events of the eruption of Krakaroa in 1883. The tsunami that followed the explosion killed around 36,000 people
Indonesia 2002 part I - Komodo and Krakatao June 15th 2002 To end with a bang - the biggest bang ever heard!
We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. Since Ake has had some time on his hands lately he has written about a trip he made in Indonesia in 2002.
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I arrived in Bali but went directly to the n ... read more
Asia » Indonesia » Komodo 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
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info