Magic Mushrooms

Relaxing in the sun - What again? - Get a job you bum!

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October 15th 2005
To get to paradise you have to wait a while in purgatory, Gili Trawangan is no exception. The Bangsal sea taxi terminal is a mafia run establishment, where hawkers and touts make it their mission to extort as much money from tourists as possible, the ferry coordinators make it their mission to keep the tourists in the fly ridden, sweaty, squalid terminal building as long as possible, and the haple ... 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