choose your ferries carefully

The Night of the Ladyboys

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November 3rd 2007
The next island on the Indonesian achipelago was the delightful Lombok. It was a five-hour ferry journey, and our ferry really should have been taken out of service in the 80's. It chugged along, spouting black smoke from it's chimney, and we were covered in flecks of black soot by the time we arrived. During the journey, the crew were casting fishing lines off the back as we sailed, to catch fish ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Lombok

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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