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Prt 2: Favrianos and Lewi deeply involved in a chess match  
   

Prt 2: Favrianos and Lewi deeply involved in a chess match

Sumatra: The Mentawai Islands

February 13th 2010
Lying 135km west of Sumatra are the little known Mentawai Islands. This was to be our next destination having flown on a whim, and another cheap Air Asia flight, from Kuala Lumpur to Padang. Getting to, and finding any information about, these far away islands was to prove seriously tricky and testing but ultimately worth it. Due to the contrasting nature of our time I have split the account i ... read more
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Indonesian Flag 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
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