Playing it safe

On the road to Surabaya. Our bus driver is tailgating, at high speed and with a severely cracked windscreen, an erratically driving tanker loaded with caustic soda. Alex spotter another similar tanker carrying sulfuric acid. Nice to see the risks aren't piling up...

Sulfurous craters in a sea of cloud

September 27th 2006
The next morning a small van - called a travel in this part of Indonesia (the range of names for these little vans is extraordinary - angkot, colt, bemo, pete-pete) - awaits us just outside the homestay for a nine-hour drive eastwards to the very Javanese-sounding (as you should now recognise) town of Probolinggo. Driving parallel to Java's fiery spine, we pass numerous volcanic peak ... 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

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