Feeding the Fishes

The secret is to fill a plastic water bottle with bread, then fishes will follow you around and nibble from your finger tips. It is like being inside that aquarium you had as a kid. It only gets a little wild when the fishes start getting bigger. I had to move on when a bunch of five pounders joined the frenzy of about a hundred fish swarming around me. I didn't trust that they might mistake my fingertips for lunch, so I boggied on. What a whimp.

The Island Paradise of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

May 17th 2013
When we were planning this ambitious adventure, we knew that we wanted to take it down to chill mode at the end, and as such, we had to decide upon a beach destination to close with, one on which we could begin to slow down a bit and on which I could celebrate my birthday by swimming with turtles. Our extensive but casual research involved conversing with other travellers about where to go, our pr ... read more

Asia » Indonesia

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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