Curious Kids

The one in the white shirt spoke a little English, surprisingly. The one in the middle nearly tipped the canoe over, so the one in the white picked up a big piece of wood and cracked him on the head. I gave them each a Coke, and a lid to a container that I didn't want. They didn't drink the Cokes, so I think that they probably were planning on trading them for something when they got back to shore.

Manokwari

October 28th 2011
We spent only a few days in Manokwari, but it was quite an eye-opening experience for us and the locals alike. Our crew, arriving in a big shiny white boat, and anchoring in the bay, was pretty much the equivalent of little green aliens arriving in a spaceship. I'm pretty sure that nearly everyone in this "city" had pretty much never seen a white person before, or maybe just once or twice be ... read more

Asia » Indonesia » West Papua » Manokwari

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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