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Scaring Small Children in Sumatra!

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April 29th 2008
(Catherine) As we've headed further south, the celebrity status we enjoyed (or should that be endured?!) in India has returned. Everyone wants to say hello, shake our hands and take photos and every school child wants to practise the five English questions they know on us. We've also discovered that in Sumatra we're pretty scary! While waiting at a bus station one day, I noticed a small girl of ... 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