Indonesia travel stories

Extreme Tourism

Central Sulawesi is one of those exciting destinations with a Foreign Office health warning on it. On its website the FO politely suggests that her Majesty’s citizens would really be better off a...

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White power

A couple more observations about Sulawesi that don’t fit anywhere else. First – and I may have mentioned this before - the place gives you a nice insight into what it would be like to be famous....

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Son of a whore

My mother was a prostitute, my father was her pimp and my brother is in jail.' Oh dear. We were back in Northern Sulawesi having been killed by neither Bouraq Air nor the legendary fundamentali...

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Land of the Fuzzy Hairs.

West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) is very different to anywhere else in Indonesia. This is because, historically, ethnically (the word Papua means land of the fuzzy hairs) and culturally, it is not...

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The Costa del Oz

Ahhh, Bali. When you're used to places where there's only one place to eat in town, where everyone wants to talk to you (because they're interested, not to sell you crappy souvenirs) a...

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