King of the dragons

'Hard ships' of Indonesia

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April 2nd 2008
We made it into our 8th country with the 2 month visa we had been trying to get throughout Malaysia and then got in about half an our in Tawau the border town! We left Tawau (Malaysia) on the 11th march on a 3 hr (actually more like 5) boat trip to Tarakan!(indonesia) We booked into a hostel there and went to find out any info on boats going south, as it turned out we'd missed the 2 weekly boa ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » Flores » Labuanbajo

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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