Beach at Gili Trawangan

And this was how we spent our last night in Indonesia...

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May 9th 2007
Hi, it's Beth. I can't tell you how much we like all the comments everybody sends. It keeps us all interested in keeping this blog going. To start with, I better answer a few questions...No, we don't encourage Samir to write more often than Alia or Jamil, but he is always begging to get on the blog whereas the other two realize how much they like writing on the blog once we have "convinced" them ... 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