Claire on a bamboo bridge in Pangandaran

From Perth to Hong Kong, via Java and Bali

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June 15th 2008
So i met up with Claire (finally, her plane was about 4 hours delayed!) at Perth having spent the day just relaxing and reading (shocking, I know- me reading a book! The Kite Runner- amazing book). Perth was nice but more of a stop over for us than anything. We saw the city and went to an island about half an hour's boat ride away, Rottness. It was beautiful but unfortunately for us we went on 'th ... read more

Asia » Indonesia

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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